Two weeks ago Jesse Harrison, an amateur MMA fighter, was stuck in traffic on Auckland’s Harbour Bridge. The 23-year-old was on his way home after working all day and had just finished an evening training session.
It was 7:30PM, and traffic on the bridge was busier than usual. Harrison assumed the normal rush hour traffic had been further slowed by some sort of accident. As his car crawled slowly towards the centre of the bridge he realized what was happening.
A car had been stranded on the road, blocking most of the left-lane of the highway. And a man was climbing over the rail that was meant to protect people from the 142-foot drop to the Pacific Ocean below.