Engagement ring is gone with the wind
It is the one moment every man wants to get right — and which London floor-fitter Lefkos Hajji could hardly have got more wrong.The luckless 28 year-old’s dreams of giving his sweetheart, Leanne, 26, the ultimate proposal have literally vanished into thin air. Hajji, of Hackney, east London, had concealed a 6,000-pound engagement ring inside a helium balloon. The idea was that she would pop the balloon as he popped the question.
But as he left the shop, a gust of wind pulled the balloon from his hand and he watched the ring — and quite possibly the affections of his girlfriend — sailing away over the rooftops. “I couldn’t believe it,” he told The Sun newspaper.
“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.”
Hajji spent two hours in his car trying to chase and find the balloon, without success. “I thought I would give Leanne a pin so I could literally pop the question,” he said. “But I had to tell her the story — she went absolutely mad. Now she is refusing to speak to me until I get her a new ring.”
He is hoping the ring will still turn up. “It would be amazing if someone found it,” he added.
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If she’s that hung up on material things and has so little thought for him and how he feels about her then he’d be much better off without the money-hungry b***c.
The poor guys, he tried so hard…hope he does get that ring back!
Holy smokes- isn’t 6,000 pounds like TWELVE GRAND? I bet quite a few people are looking for that balloon. Poor guy.
What a dumba$$. Why couldn’t he tie the balloon to his wrist until he got it inside a building somewhere?
She’s better off without someone who literally has no common sense whatsoever.
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The Jeweler should have tied the expensive balloon to his wrist. Poor guy, but at least he knows that his girl is nothing more than a gold digger. Especially if she won’t talk to him. There are more important things in this life than material possessions
Oh how sad. I hope he gets back the ring and the girl wises up!
It looked like a perfectly good way to express his love but….that was probably a bad idea. I do not see why he couldn’t have put it in a piece of cake or something like that..gooey but safe in her hands.
Ah well. We learn, sometimes at great cost. It is sad. I do hope he gets it back but……
Awesome! She’s not busted up over the mere fact that he a)tragically-if-stupidly lost her ring and b) tragically-if-stupidly lost her friggin 12 grand ring, but she’s holding out for another one! Of course maybe he’s saving face and she’s really she’s just overwhelmed that he sent 6 Brit grand sailing into oblivion.
That poor man! To lose such an expensive item is bad enough, but then to find out your girlfriend is so shallow really has to hurt!
Ok, do people really belive the girl won’t speak to him? Cos that makes her even more shallow than a puddle of fresh urine
I heard this story on Yahoo I think. That really sucks!
I echo the sentiments of those above me here - good ridance to bad rubbish. (the girl - not the ring) That being said, I do feel a little bad for the guy.
Ouch…that suck. Moral of the story, don’t carry a balloon.