Man 'swallows $13,000 diamond' at Sri Lanka gem exhibition

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A Chinese visitor to a gem exhibition in Sri Lanka has been arrested for swallowing a diamond said to be worth $13,000 (about £8,200), police say.

The 32-year-old man swallowed the gem after taking it from a display cabinet as the annual exhibition opened on Wednesday in the capital, Colombo.

"He... appeared to be appraising it and suddenly put it in his mouth," an unnamed police officer told AFP.

He said the man was taken to hospital to be given laxatives.

full: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19487763

[Hoyt]

1. What would one charge as a "finder's fee" for sorting out the waste from the diamond? Ugh.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

3. For me? About $13,000

[FSogol]

2. It'll be all right.....in the end.

[TwilightGardener]

4. This, too, shall pass.

[d_r]

5. yea, it'll work out

[KansDem]

6. Kick & Rec...

...tum

[Curtland1015]

7. The five "C's" of diamonds: Cut, Color, Clarity, Carat weight, and Crap.

[LeftofObama]

8. What a shitty thing to do! n/t

[Initech]

9. Hardest substance known to man!!

[berni_mccoy]

10. That's just...

shitty.