Florida woman, 80, accidentally swallows diamond worth $5,000 at Tampa charity event
TAMPA, Fla. - An 80-year-old woman accidentally swallowed a $5,000 diamond at a charity event in Florida.
The Tampa Woman's Club held an event over the weekend where they poured 400 flutes of champagne. Inside each flute was a cubic zirconia, and one of the flutes contained a $5,000 diamond donated by Continental Wholesale Diamond.
"We were laughing, and I wasn't paying attention, and I took a swallow," said Miriam, who declined to give her last name.
After patrons finished their drinks, the real diamond was nowhere to be found.
"We were going table to table," explained Andrew Meyer, a partner at Continental Wholesale Diamond. "There were 400 flutes, so we're going quickly table to table, and in the end there was no diamond."
That's when the 80-year-old woman came forward and said she accidentally swallowed what was in her flute.
"I thought, 'Someone will win this, and I won't have to tell them,'" Miriam explained.
Miriam immediately went to an area hospital for an X-ray, only to find out diamonds don't show up on X-rays.
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She just have to be careful and hold her nose
