Marriage, Engagement Ring | featured news

We've all accidentally thrown something valuable away in the trash, but what if that something was worth more than $10,000? Would you swim in a pile of waste to find it? One husband was faced with that conundrum and he didn't think twice.

It was a perfect proposal: Matt Cawley took girlfriend Stacey Scanlon on a romantic walk along a jetty and tied a family heirloom diamond engagement ring to a sand dollar. But when she grabbed it, the $9,000 ring dropped among the rocks — and it hasn’t been seen since.

The proposal was going to be memorable, made on one knee above the Brooklyn Bridge, with all of New York spread out before the would-be groom and his fiancee-to-be.