Sunday, November 9, 2008

Woman finds her $20,000 diamond earrings in landfill

BEIJING, July 21 (Chinese medianet) -- A Staten Island, New York,jeweler retrieved her 3-carat diamond earringsafter 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 earrings were recovered Thursday at the former Fresh Kills landfill, where trash is compacted and shipped out of state.

Owner Haya Sharon is calls the find "a miracle." The earrings were an anniversary gift from her husband.

Sanitation Department spokesman Keith Mellis says engagement rings and other precious possessions have been plucked from piles of city garbage.

(Agencies)

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