Star football player lost the expensive item while jet skiing at the lake.
Adrianne Haney, WXIA 8:04 PM. EDT July 26, 2017
ATLANTA -- The work of Internet trolls is never done.
On Tuesday, 11Alive reported how Falcons' wide receiver Julio Jones lost his $100,000+ earring in the waters of Lake Lanier while jet skiing. The superstar of the team said he was riding on the lake when he apparently hit a boat wake and was tossed into the water.
He came back up, but the earring didn't.
News of Jones hiring a dive team to search for the diamond made headlines online, with many cracking jokes about the Falcons' Super Bowl loss ("While they are at it could they search for the 28-3 lead they lost as well?") and comparing it to that time Kim Kardashian lost a diamond earring of her own.
Julio Jones hires dive team to search for $100K diamond earring he lost in lake while jet skiing, per @11AliveNews https://t.co/A1G1jSVBrk pic.twitter.com/9mPDWIiZms
The joke carried over (briefly) to Wikipedia, too, after someone edited the entry for Lake Lanier to read "Julio Jones' earring was found by pirates here, so don't look for it." The new line was short-lived, though, and was later taken down.
As for Jones, he's still without his earring --divers ultimately rose from the water empty-handed. But the Falcons star said he's just glad no one got hurt.
"As long as I'm good, it's materialistic stuff," he said. "You can always get that kind of stuff back."
UP-CLOSE |Divers descend into Lake Lanier to find $100Kearring
H/T to Twitter user Ben Anderson
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Wikipedia edit (briefly) adds Julio Jones' earring incident to Lake Lanier entry - WXIA-TV