REMEMBER WHEN

GOLD COAST BULLETIN Tuesday April 27, 1982

POINT Danger is famous for its high cliffs, which have been the site of accidents for decades.

Back in 1982, four Coolangatta police offices risked their lives to save a man who threatened to jump off a 30m cliff at Point Danger.

The officers climbed 10m down the cliff face in pitch darkness and coaxed the man, 30, from the edge of the sheer drop.

The incident began at 3.15am on a Saturday when police received a call that the man had crossed the wooden barrier opposite the area’s lighthouse and climbed down onto the cliffs.

Constables Graeme Barnes, Des Gleeson, Gary Brown and Warren Francis raced to the scene and were unable to see what was going on as they made their way onto the cliffs to stop the man.

Constable Francis told the Bulletin that the rescue was conducted in highly treacherous conditions.

“It was freezing cold, the wind was howling around the cliffs,” he said.

The man was taken to Brisbane for psychiatric tests.

It was the third rescue for the police at Point Danger in a month.

Meanwhile, a Labrador workman was injured after falling five metres from the partly demolished Gold Coast Dairy building on Southport’s Scarborough St.

The building was being demolished to make way for what is now the western side of Australia Fair.

Ross Bycroft, 42, of Saltash St, suffered cuts after falling through the concrete floor.