Gothamist: Digging Through Landfill for $20,000 Earrings

so1337

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:02:47 -0500

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

NannyState

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:46:38 -0500

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

lastlaugh

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:38:08 -0500

This pretty much sums up Staten Islanders.

cucarachita

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:29:28 -0500

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

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:37:39 -0500

That trash must have been super ripe. Ew.

UnrepentantFenian

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:47:26 -0500

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.

Spiritof76

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:38:49 -0500

30 minutes for $20,000 is worth it, I guess. Would have been a lot more fun if it had already been compacted, though.

TimSPC

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:35:41 -0500

And yet people have the nerve to criticize the mayor of Belmar.

hoodlum

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:11:31 -0500

They found the earrings but they probably also found gonorrhea and were pricked by a bunch of hypodermic needles.

kidicarus

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:59:55 -0500

30 minutes? They got lucky!