Butterfingers

There's a theory that elaborate, public marriage proposals are unnecessary, and often a bad idea. Here's further evidence in support of that theory.

Don Walling planned the day with the precision of a classroom lesson. He would propose to his girlfriend, Gina Pellicani, on the Brooklyn Bridge’s pedestrian walkway. His family would be looking on and his sister-in-law would videotape the whole thing.

But at the moment of truth – with ring in hand – disaster struck, and it wasn’t because Gina refused to say, “I do.” Walling dropped the ring through a crack in the pedestrian bridge and into traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge roadway below.

I give him credit for not going out like a sucka, though. The video below gives the full story.