Monday, a man who was on the seventh floor of the Senate Office Building threatened to jump but, eventually, police talked him out of it. According to FOXNews, authorities said that the man, who didn’t speak English, threatened to “hurt himself through his actions” in case anyone came close. He was on the seventh floor of the Hart Senate Office Building's inner atrium in Washington D.C.

A spokeswoman for U.S. Capitol Police said that the man, identified as Yuan Fang, 66, climbed onto a railing about 5:45 p.m. and, after several hours of talking and negotiating, the man was convinced to get back on the correct side of the railing. The incident was close to Sen. Barack Obama’s office and other political personalities had their offices on the 7^th floor: Sens. Arlen Specter, Jack Reid, Bill Nelson and Mary Landrieu.

Yuan Fang didn’t speak English, he spoke Mandarin. Capitol police negotiators convinced him to leave the edge at around 2 a.m. yesterday. Police charged the man with disturbing the peace. He was taken to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in order to have a psychiatric evaluation.

As the Hart Building has glass windows that face inside the building, police asked the staff to close shades and not to record or take pictures of what was happening on the 7^th floor.

Another similar incident happened on Saturday when a patient from George Washington University Hospital fell from a fifth-story ledge after he had been threatening to jump, reported Washington Post.