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Man Drops Engagement Ring onto
Brooklyn Bridge
A Long Island man dropped his diamond
engagement ring onto the Brooklyn Bridge and ran into oncoming traffic to
retrieve it. The man, Don Walling, had a perfect
proposal plan: he asked his girlfriend of four years to walk across the Brooklyn
Bridge with him and his relatives
for a birthday dinner. Halfway across the
bridge, Walling got down on one knee and proposed with the engagement ring.
“Could you give me the greatest birthday gift ever and let me love you for the
rest of my life?” Walling asked his girlfriend, 28-year-old Gina Pellicani.
But before Pellicani could respond, the engagement ring fell out of Walling’s
hand and slipped through the planks on the pedestrian walkway, right onto the
roadway of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Walling scrambled after the ring and shimmied down a 60-feet vertical drop onto
the roadway below. Nearby
pedestrians thought he was trying to commit suicide. They yelled at Walling,
imploring him not to jump. But Walling ignored them and jumped down to the
roadway to look for the ring.
The Brooklyn Bridge police patrol was alerted, and a police van pulled up near
Walling and stopped traffic. Walling eventually found the (slightly bent) 1.6
carat diamond engagement ring, to cheers from the crowd above.
When Walling got back up the walkway, he once again asked his girlfriend if she
would marry him. She said yes.
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