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True Stories from Around the World

from Reuters:
It is the one moment every man wants to get right — and which London floor-fitter Lefkos Hajji could hardly have got more wrong….Hajji, of Hackney, east London, had concealed a $12,000 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 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.”