Darwin was right. This guy is not going to be able to mate, thereby strengthening the species for our survivors.
Balloon lost in the sky with diamond – Telegraph:
By Natalie Paris
Last Updated: 11:24am GMT 14/03/2008It had seemed a romantic and highly original way to propose to the love of your life with a £6,000 diamond ring.
Lefkos Hajji, 28, wanted to make his engagement one his girlfriend would never forget, only to have his dreams cruelly snatched from his grasp by a gust of wind.
Rather than simply dropping to one knee before Leanne, 26, he told a florist to put her engagement ring in a silver helium balloon.
But no sooner had he left the shop when his plans backfired spectacularly and the balloons blew away – taking the ring with them.
Keeping his prize in sight, Mr Hajji, from Hackney, London, pursued the balloons for two hours in his car across London before giving them up as lost.
He told the Sun newspaper: “I couldn’t believe it. I just watched as it went further and further into the air.
”I felt like such a plonker. It cost a fortune and I knew my girlfriend would kill me.
“I though I would give Leanne a pin so I could literally pop the question.”
While Mr Hajji hopes the ring will still turn up, his girlfriend, as he suspected, was apparently less than impressed.
Florist Helen Savva, of Cockfosters, London, told the newspaper: “I thought he was taking a risk. I said, ‘I hope you hold onto it’.”
2 Comments
JohnBoy
I love these stories. I just wish that something else would happen to add closure. I wish that, while following his prize, the balloon popped. The ring reached terminal velocity, fell into his upturned face, entering his eye socket. Blasting down through his optic nerve and lodging just inside his brain. Just enough so that he was as visually stupid as he acts in this story. Maybe an uncontrollable twitch would be helpful. It bothers me that he will go back into society and be forgotten.
He should be branded with the scarlet S. Fucking idiot.
Dork
Ha — and your Director’s Cut ending further complicates his changes of landing a mate.
I think another fun ending would be to see the guy get an anonymous letter from someone saying they got his ring when the balloon landed in their pool at their vacation home in San Tropez. It could say something like “I’m filthy rich, but you’re a moron, so you don’t deserve this back.”