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The idea behind the Tampa Women's Club charity event was simple
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T
he idea behind the Tampa Women's Club charity event was simple. For US$20, you could buy a flute of champagne and a chance to win a one-carat, $5,000 diamond.
Organizers of the Saturday event placed $10 cubic zirconia stones in the bottom of 399 of the 400 champagne glasses. The prized diamond, donated by Continental Wholesale Diamonds, was placed in the last.
The problem? Eighty-year-old Miriam Tucker accidentally swallowed it. Tucker told local news media that she didn't want to put her finger in the champagne, so she drank a bit. While laughing with women at the table, she realized she had swallowed it.
Embarrassed, she had to tell the jewelers who were frantically searching for the winner. Already scheduled for a colonoscopy on Monday, she had a doctor recover the jewel.
