A man was talked off a cliff Wednesday evening after he fled deputies and stood poised atop a 60-foot drop into the frigid waters of the Collins River. Authorities say the man, Christopher L. Johnson, 35, had to be taken seriously as he stood atop the cliff since he had leapt from the same cliff into the river several years ago when he also ran from lawmen. However, temperatures Wednesday lingered around the teens meaning a death-defying leap from the withering heights may have proven fatal, not due to the fall but due to hypothermia.