Suicidal man is talked off a bridge by beer delivery men for an amazing reason

Two beer delivery men did not expect to be talking a man literally down off a ledge when they were making their delivery rounds.

Kwame Anderson and Jason Gabel were in St. Paul, Minnesota when they clocked something strange. 

They couldn't believe their eyes – it was a man hanging onto the outside of a fence on a interstate overpass. 

So what did the men do? 

They pulled the truck over and Kwame jumped out. 

According to the Pioneer Press, he asked the man, "hey, what are you doing? If you're thinking of jumping, you don't have to jump."

The man replied, "you don't know me, you don't care. Why are you trying to save me?"

Minnesota beer truck driver talks distressed man off of bridge, offers him a drink. Kwame Anderson says he channelled actor Denzel Washington to calmly persuade the man not to jump https://t.co/ENptt3FzDa pic.twitter.com/I8qAhNa11b

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Kwame simply said, ''if I didn't care I wouldn't be here right now."

Kwame called 911 but he kept the conversation going until he knew police would arrive.

Surprisingly, his inspiration for helping the man came from an unexpected place.

"I thought about Denzel Washington when he's acting as a cop in movies. I said, 'well, I gotta keep this guy entertained somehow because if I wait for police, this thing may be over'," Kwame revealed. 

The two men told each other stories of their lives until Kwame said, "if you come down from there, do you want to get a drink with me and talk about what's going on?"

What followed was the man tentatively inching his way across the bridge and back to safety.

Kwame Anderson said he recalled negotiation tactics from Denzel Washington movie Inside Man (!!!) and built a rapport with the man: offering to talk it out over a beer.

Coors is dumb as hell if they don't spin this into a new ad. And offer a three men a supply of beer. https://t.co/fM7NW40S2L

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While he didn't get a drink, as the paramedics took him to the hospital for evaluation, the two men had done an amazing thing – they had saved him. 

The extraordinary thing is that the men weren't actually even supposed to be going by that bridge. 

Jason explained that he took a left to go towards the bridge when he would always go straight.  

"We have a route that we do every Wednesday and that wasn't the way I would normally go. It wasn't part of the plan, but it was God's plan,'' he said. 

Everything happens for a reason, right?