Blingdigger
Full Member
Here are the pictures of the 40 year old wedding ring recovery I made last week. My husband’s cousin saw a sign at a local park with a picture of a lost ring and a phone number. He took a picture, sent it to me and I immediately called the number. Talked with Joel, an old gentlemen, he explained to me he lost the ring more than a week ago. He was seating on a park bench and threw a ball to his dog with his left hand backwards and he felt the ring slip off his fingers.
He borrow a metal detector and was going everyday at the park, even went at night looking for with a flashlight hoping he could see something shiny. He had no luck for over a week finding the ring and just returned the metal detector on the same day I call him. Told him would meet in an hour, also asked him to bring his wife matching ring. When I got there Joel had not shown up yet and I saw the bench he described in our phone call and decided start looking. Started on the left side of the bench. First signal, bottle top. Second signal “the ring”. Couldn’t believe, yes it was the same ring of the picture. Placed the ring on my finger and waited for Joel. When he arrived he told me he was very disturbed over his loss. In asked him to explain how that happened. He then sat on the bench on the “right” side of the bench and did the reenactment of how he lost his ring and told me he looked over and over on the right side and behind the bench. Then he showed me his wife’s ring. I pointed to her ring with his ring on my finger and asked “is this the ring? He didn’t catch the first time. Asked again pointing to the ring. Only after the third time he saw and couldn’t believe that I already had his ring. He cracked a big smile of relief and asked where did I find it. He couldn’t understand how far the ring went, actually 180 degrees from where he taught it was. He insisted in a reward, that was a great day!
He borrow a metal detector and was going everyday at the park, even went at night looking for with a flashlight hoping he could see something shiny. He had no luck for over a week finding the ring and just returned the metal detector on the same day I call him. Told him would meet in an hour, also asked him to bring his wife matching ring. When I got there Joel had not shown up yet and I saw the bench he described in our phone call and decided start looking. Started on the left side of the bench. First signal, bottle top. Second signal “the ring”. Couldn’t believe, yes it was the same ring of the picture. Placed the ring on my finger and waited for Joel. When he arrived he told me he was very disturbed over his loss. In asked him to explain how that happened. He then sat on the bench on the “right” side of the bench and did the reenactment of how he lost his ring and told me he looked over and over on the right side and behind the bench. Then he showed me his wife’s ring. I pointed to her ring with his ring on my finger and asked “is this the ring? He didn’t catch the first time. Asked again pointing to the ring. Only after the third time he saw and couldn’t believe that I already had his ring. He cracked a big smile of relief and asked where did I find it. He couldn’t understand how far the ring went, actually 180 degrees from where he taught it was. He insisted in a reward, that was a great day!
