Brian McGuinn shows off his wife's engagement ring after finding it once he sifted through 9 tons of garbage. Photo courtesy of the Sun Sentinel.

Apparently a Florida man went waist deep in filth to salvage his lady’s engagement ring earlier this month. Sure, they’re already married but when Brian McGuinn accidentally threw out his wife’s $10,000 engagement ring, he knew he would stop at nothing to get it back.

Anna McGuinn handed her hubby her sparkly rock when she went to the shower. Somehow, her man threw it out with a disposable razor. As if that wasn’t bad enough, the garbage had already been picked up by the time they realized it.

The local garbage processing plant helped the couple out by suiting up Brian with a protective vest, goggles– the works. He then went into an area where the ring “most likely” would be.

Talk about looking for a needle in a haystack!

“It was absolutely disgusting. It stunk beyond belief. The smell was God-awful. Everything unsanitary you could think of crossed my path at least a couple times. I took an extraordinarily long shower and toothbrushes were used,” Brian told the Sun Sentinel.

Luckily for this couple, they found the ring! But the moral of this story? Get engagement ring insurance (calling my own fiance right NOW).

But what do you think? How far would you go to retrieve something as special as an engagement ring?

Nikki