Engagement ring floats away
Lefkos Hajji of London put a $12,000 engagement ring in a helium balloon, intending for his girlfriend to pop the balloon when he popped the question. Bad idea. The ring floated away into the sky like so many ideas that seemed good at the time. And now his girlfriend apparently won't talk to him until he gets another ring. Link
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She sounds like a bitch; he could use this opportunity to dump her.Does that mean whomever finds the ring gets to marry him? Even if it's a cormorant gagging on a wad of shredded latex with something hard inside? I smell a re-make of "The Red Balloon" coming on.
ZuZu, exactly what I was thinking :)
It was a stupid mistake, but sack the bitch!
Ditto to #1.
Call it the best $12K he might've spent to find out in advance what she is like.
I am struggling with this: Is he more of a fool for putting a $12,000 ring in a helium balloon or for buying a $12,000 ring in the first place?
Oh wait...I know...
I'm also thinking that if the ring is that important to her then that's something he needs to reeeeeally think about when deciding whether or not to buy another.
Appropriate sound effect:
WAH-Wah-wah-wahhhhhhhh!
$12,000 sounds like a fair price to find out that the girl you thought you wanted to marry is a superficial, materialistic waste.
He should be happy at all the money he's saving from the divorce -- because her response is very telling that there will be a divorce, and it will be very expensive.
Losing the ring--and her response--seem like signs that she's not the one.
Take the hint buddy, save yourself!
this is also an opportune time to claim the ring you bought for your bride-to-be was worth far more than it actually was...
Has it occurred to anyone else that this guy's story might be a story? "Uh yeah, sure, I bought you that 12 thousand dollar ring you wanted, and, uh...it...it floated away! Yeah, that's the ticket!"
Uh, yeah, honey I DID get you a ring but I, uh LOST it see... I uh tied it to a BALLOON, yeah, that's it and it uh floated away but it was a REALLY nice ring and it uh cost me uh, let's see, uh 5, no 10 no it was $12,000 yeah, that's the ticket! I bought it for my fiancee Morgan Fairchild...
He should name her: Every man in London needs to know who this woman is. $12,000 seems expensive, but I'm sure there's at least 20 men over the course of her lifetime who would have been nominally willing to invest fifty quid to learn of this personal quality of hers.
There's an opportunity to ensure someone faces the consequences of their choices.
Kibble you beat me by one minute...
Yep, he got off cheap. $12,000 is nothing to find out your girlfriend only loves you for your ability to provide $12,000 bling.
Hm, now I've gotten to thinking of all the things nicer than a ring that could be bought with $12,000. My wife has told me several times that she'd have been furious if I'd wasted our money on something so useless as an engagement ring. Just one small part of why I love her...
Pwn3d by physics!
"Hab' 'nen Luftballon gefunden,
Denk' an Dich und lass' ihn fliegen"
Something tells me that anyone dumb enough to try this isn't going to be smart enough to learn from their mistake.
Something tells me that Pukebazooka is probably right on.
Something tells me that I wouldn't like to stand in front of pukebazooka when (s)he fires.
Something tells me that I like where this thread is headed...
*laughing furiously at Belac in #19*
(because weeping at human stupidity in the original story is the only other alternative)
-abs
he should have played it off as a quest. "i will marry whoever can bring this ring back to me," just like in the fairy tales.
I wouldn't expect her to be happy about it, if only because it's was a big loss of money. I can appreciate the idea behind the ring, but I think some people make bling into something far more important that it is. That said, I'm going to go polish mine right now. Oh, how I love you, my Precioussssss, my beautiful Preciousssss...
Sounds like he got off cheap.
see, THIS is why guys are reluctant to make grand, spontaneous, romantic gestures!
i love stupid people. thank you lefkos hajji of london for making my day.
I'm still processing this...the dude buys a 12K ring. He puts it into a balloon. That sounds difficult right there. I guess it is possible, weird, but possible. Did anyone see him put the ring in the balloon? Is this guy a liar? Something about the story isn't right. Urban Myth in the making?
Sounds like an insurance scam to me.
Dude, thanks for the ring! It's really stunning. My wife will love it.
-balloon hunter
And why isn't there a link to the original site for this post, either?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080314/od_nm/engagement_dc
I like this line the best:
"I thought I would give Leanne a pin so I could literally pop the question," he said.
Good to see most agree with my first thought "She sounds like a bitch. That guy needs a new girlfriend!"
This is starting to sound like Jerry Springer or .. wait, is that even still on? You kids still watch Geraldo, right? ..and Montell?
Ricki Lake'll kick your ass if you don't 'make good' and buy another ring. But Jerry says, "she doesn't love the real you, she loves your money, Dump Her!"..
Oh, who to listen to?
I wonder if he still wants to marry her after the "and now his girlfriend apparently won't talk to him until he gets another ring."
$12,000? How much is that in euros?
Sounds like he got off...
Wait, looks like everyone else already went there.
This just reminds me of why my wife is more awesome than...
Wait, someone covered that, too.
Well, I have nothing to add.
Urban myth in the making? It's impossible to tell anymore. With well over 6 billion people in the world, the odds are high that just about anything that *can* (physically) happen, will happen. From the old Ripley's Believe it or Not articles to the Guinness Book, reality is far stranger than fiction. I tend to maintain some healthy skepticism about almost anything, but I also never *disbelieve* anything unless it's impossible. This world is just too weird...
let's see, figuring the current state of the dollar..
73ยข ..ish?