Central Park lovers get engaged, mugged

[Ban Hammer 13,346]

NEW YORK - For richer, for poorer? It'll have to be for poorer after Luke Jacunski and his girlfriend were robbed at gunpoint just seconds after he proposed.

Jacunski got on one knee and popped the question to his girlfriend of six months, Mami Nagase, in a romantic spot at a gazebo in Central Park on Saturday night. She had just agreed to marry him when, they said, a gunman jumped from the bushes and yelled, "Give me your money and get on the ground!"

As Jacunski, 30, and Nagase, 24, got on the ground, he was able to slip the engagement ring off her finger and hide it in his pocket.

The robber took a Rolex watch from Nagase and $125 from Jacunski, who had planned to use it to pay for a romantic dinner at a French restaurant. The robber then ran away.

Nagase, an artist from Japan, and Jacunski, a musician from Cincinnati, spent the next several hours at a police station looking at mug shots and sharing potato chips for dinner. They said they still plan to get married.

"It makes for a pretty good story for our anniversary," Jacunski said.

He said the night could have been much worse: After he proposed, Nagase could have said no.

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[LondonGooner 0]

NEW YORK - For richer, for poorer? It'll have to be for poorer after Luke Jacunski and his girlfriend were robbed at gunpoint just seconds after he proposed.

Jacunski got on one knee and popped the question to his girlfriend of six months, Mami Nagase, in a romantic spot at a gazebo in Central Park on Saturday night. She had just agreed to marry him when, they said, a gunman jumped from the bushes and yelled, "Give me your money and get on the ground!"

As Jacunski, 30, and Nagase, 24, got on the ground, he was able to slip the engagement ring off her finger and hide it in his pocket.

The robber took a Rolex watch from Nagase and $125 from Jacunski, who had planned to use it to pay for a romantic dinner at a French restaurant. The robber then ran away.

Nagase, an artist from Japan, and Jacunski, a musician from Cincinnati, spent the next several hours at a police station looking at mug shots and sharing potato chips for dinner. They said they still plan to get married.

"It makes for a pretty good story for our anniversary," Jacunski said.

He said the night could have been much worse: After he proposed, Nagase could have said no.

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Well that sucks but at least they can see a funny side to it. Not sure if I'd be able to if it were me.

[Jasman0717 9]

Well at least they kept the ring That will be a good story to pass down along with the ring

[dalegg 143]

This is almost what happened in "The Time Machine"

[almaty 19]

i new york

[Emancipation 2]

I was reading this story saying.. NOOOOOO not the ring..

Glad the crook didn't get that...

[Fandango 1,439]

The ring should be insured at the moment it leaves the jeweler's They were fortunate that he was able to hide it...

But Central Park @ night? Cmon now!

Edited September 25, 2007 by LisaD

[RandyandRina 2]

Start spreading the news

I'm leaving today

I want to be a part of it, New York, New York

[Scott & Lai 12]

This is almost what happened in "The Time Machine"

Good thing I saw that version, or I'd have no idea what you were talking about

The ring should be insured at the moment it leaves the jeweler's They were fortunate that he was able to hide it...

But Central Park @ night? Cmon now!

That was my thought...

[Nessa 23]

This is almost what happened in "The Time Machine"

Maybe the guy who made that movie actually built a time machine and he came to the future, saw that happening, had the idea for the movie, went back in his time machine and created the movie