April 19, 2007 (Independent Online / Irene Kuppan / SOUTH AFRICA) -- Paramedics on Wednesday saved the life of a man claiming to be a vampire and intent on committing suicide. The man, believed to be aged about 40, was discovered hanging on the wrong side of a bridge railing above railway lines along Argyle Road.

ER 24 spokesperson Neil Noble said: "It looked like he wanted to jump from the bridge onto the train tracks below."

Paramedics Derrick Banks and Justin Chellan, who were travelling along the road at the time, approached the man to convince him not to jump.

"I couldn't believe my eyes, we were driving along and then saw this. It felt like we were watching a movie," said Chellan.

According to paramedics, the extremely anxious and frightened man told them: "I am actually a vampire."

"He definitely wanted to kill himself. He warned us to stay away or he would jump," said Banks.

Paramedics spent more than an hour talking to the man, who identified himself as Ronald.

Noble said: "They reassured the man that they did care and that nobody was there to harm him. Eventually they convinced him to go back to the safe side of the railing, where he was taken into police custody."

While paramedics said that the man was not physically injured, he did admit to a history of physical, sexual and drug abuse.

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Vampire books stake claim to teens

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Daydreaming

Reality, the troublesome thing that clamps,

hard

Onto your mind, which refuses to allow it to stretch

to the end of the universe

But instead, with bitter,

banality,

Not allowing the imagination to flow,

Not allowing thought,

Not allowing anything

but the dreary

existence

day

to

day

without

feeling

without

living.

If only I could break free

If only

I

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