Jewelry Valued At $100K Recovered From 9 Tons Of Trash
GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Three rings and a bracelet worth $100,000 had been dumped in the garbage and all a Georgia county had to do was find the black bag among nearly 10 tons of trash that contained the diamond jewelry.
Hall County Solid Waste Director Johnnie Vickers tells WSB-TV a woman made a distraught call into one landfill Friday saying she had accidentally thrown out her jewelry. Vickers says timing is everything in the game to recover something.
Where do you start when faced with nearly 10 tons of trash and in one bag is $100k in jewelry?! The one clue searchers got on @wsbtv at 6p pic.twitter.com/w5woN27bP1
— Wendy Corona (@WendyCoronaWSB) March 13, 2018
He assembled a team of five employees to help sift through trash where trucks bring roughly 300 tons of it each day. After checking logs they narrowed their search to a 20-minute window and 9 to 10 tons of garbage.
Hours later the employees picked up one last bag and it had the jewelry inside.
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