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Posted: 8:44 PM Jul 19, 2008
Treasure In The Trash: $20K Earrings Found In NYC
Diamonds in the rough? Try a $20,000 pair of the glinting gems in a reeking truckload of trash.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Diamonds in the rough? Try a $20,000 pair of the glinting gems in a reeking truckload of trash.
A Staten Island jeweler has gotten her 3-carat diamond earrings back after she, her husband and city sanitation employees sorted through a smelly heap of garbage. The studs were in a small jar of cleaning solution, which a worker at the couple's jewelry store had accidentally thrown away.
The earrings were recovered Thursday at the site of the former Fresh Kills landfill. The giant dump closed in 2001, and the earrings were in a load of trash destined to be compacted and shipped out of state.
Owner Haya Sharon is calls the find "a miracle." The earrings were an anniversary gift from her husband.
Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
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did they fire the worker who threw them in the trash? and who spends 20k on earrings?
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