Brilio.net/en - Bernie Squitieri might be the luckiest person on earth this week, despite a US$400,000 goof he committed.
The 51-year-old husband who lives in Missouri with his wife had accidentally thrown a 12.5 karat wedding ring in the trash.
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According to ABC News, Squitieris wife, Carla, had left the wedding ring, which worth as much as US$400,000 on a paper towel on the kitchen counter. When Squitieri heard the morning garbage truck arrive, he quickly snatched up the paper towel, threw it in the trash, then took the trash out to the truck just in time for pickup.
Unfortunately, he had no idea that on paper towel was the $400,000 ring.
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Image via ABC News
After he realized his mistake, he and his wife jumped quickly into a race against time. The precious ring was on its way to a landfill. If it ended up there, the chances of recovery were almost impossible.
Squitieri convinced sanitation workers at Meridian Waste Services to let him search the bags and ended up with permission to dig deep through around 10 tons of garbage. After 25 minutes of hard, revolting effort, much to the couples relief, operations manager Joe Evans emerged with the ring.
"10 times out of 10, we don't find something like that," Evans told ABC News. "It was the best feeling in the world to find that ring and give it back."
At least, we get the lesson: always check your paper towel twice; maybe youll find a diamond ring. Who knows?