I came accross this story a week ago and just had to share it. It begun in January this year with a very expensive engagement diamond ring, a restaurant, a toilet and a plumber. I’m sure you get where we’re going with this.
An excert from the MSNBC website:
It took a plumber to retrieve a woman’s 7-carat diamond ring after city workers failed in efforts to flush the gem out of the pipes of a restaurant toilet. The $78,000 engagement ring fell from Allison Berry’s hand when she flushed the toilet in the restroom of The Black Bear Diner on Jan. 14. The ring plopped in and the water whisked it away, said Elena Castelar, the restaurant’s shift manager.
Roberts guided a tiny video camera into the pipe with an infrared light attached. He eventually spotted the ring just 3 feet down and 5 feet over from where it was flushed. Then it took an hour-and-a-half of jackhammering and pipe removal before Roberts and a technician could recover the ring, eight hours after it fell in the toilet.
“They always say diamonds are a girl’s best friend. In this case, a plumber is a girl’s best friend,”
Roberts said. “She was just so excited, she had tears in her eyes. She gave us a hug and said ‘Thank you so much.'”
So, a lesson to be learnt here I think, if your going to wear very expensive dimoands, make sure you get the correct size setting, and whatever you do, be careful in public washrooms.