Digging Through Landfill for $20,000 Earrings

The hot and humid weather didn't stop a Staten Island couple from digging through a landfill to find a pair of $20,000 earrings mistakenly thrown out. WCBS 2 reports that jeweler Haya Sharon had put her earrings in a "small jar of cleaning solution," which one of their jewelry store employees "accidentally threw it away Tuesday." The Sharons contacted the Sanitation Department, which directed them to the old Fresh Kills landfill, where their trash--amid all the other collected garbage--was waiting to be compacted and shipped elsewhere. The couple found the earrings on Thursday, after 30 minutes of searching.

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By Jen Chung in News on July 20, 2008 11:35 AM

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so1337

I hope afterwards they decided to get some tetanus shots. 30 mins is still very lucky

NannyState

Think of all the diamond rings at the bottom of those digesters in Queens. Now there's a mission for the intrepid.

lastlaugh

This pretty much sums up Staten Islanders.

cucarachita

Long ago I was on a fashion shoot where a model was wearing a thirty thousand dollar ring (studded with diamonds), and the photographer asked her fling her arms out for a shot. Guess what happened to the ring? It went flying. All we heard was the sound of it landing and rolling, but we never found it.

That was in the meat packing district, 15 years ago, and while everyone was frantically looking for the ring (which unfortunately for the stylist, was uninsured), while the sun went down and the transvestites came out and started slinking around, I was secretly hoping that if they never found it, that one of the transvestites would, and that it would change his life in some great and unimagined way.

We never did find the ring. Anyone out there the lucky person who found it?

:)

nomnomnom

That trash must have been super ripe. Ew.

UnrepentantFenian

Why wasn't the jeweler digging through the trash? You think they would be motivated since I would imagine they would be on the hook if the earrings weren't recovered.