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31 Years Ago, a Howard Stern Listener Pulled Over to Help Save a Caller’s Life

In 1994, Howard Stern took a call from a man in crisis. A listener heard the broadcast and stopped to help before police arrived.

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On December 7, 1994, Howard Stern received one of the oddest on-air calls of his decades-long radio career. “I don’t know if this is real or not, but there’s some guy on the phone…he’s got a cellular phone with him, and he’s about to jump from the George Washington Bridge and kill himself,” Stern told his listeners at around 8:10 a.m. that morning. However, as soon as the man was patched in, he made it clear to Stern that he wasn’t kidding.

After verifying the caller’s claim by getting one of his listeners on the bridge to honk in the background, Stern asked........

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