• In 2010, a Minnesota lady by accident flushed her ring down the bathroom.
• Her husband eliminated the bathroom, wired a digicam down the sewer, and referred to as metropolis staff to search out it.
• In a wierd flip, staff repairing a wastewater remedy plant discovered it 13 years later.

Everybody loses issues every day, however most find yourself slicing their losses.

When Mary Strand misplaced a diamond ring that her husband gifted her for his or her thirty third anniversary, she had no thought she would finally be reunited with it greater than a decade later.

“I by no means, ever, ever thought I might ever see this once more,” Strand mentioned after discovering her ring.

Final month, the Metropolitan Council in Saint Paul, Minnesota, revealed that they discovered a hoop whereas repairing tools at at considered one of their regional wastewater remedy plant. They took to Fb to attempt to reunite the ring with its proprietor.

“Discovering the ring was a uncommon occasion, like profitable the lottery. We wish to return the ring to its proprietor!” the Council mentioned.

Strand advised the Council that at a while in 2010, she was washing her palms and positioned her ring on the counter. She then went over to flush the bathroom, and by accident knocked the ring into the bathroom.

“I am watching this ring swirl. I dove for the ring and it went down,” Strand mentioned.

She then referred to as her husband David, who owns a sewer and drain cleansing enterprise. He went to nice lengths to retrieve the ring. He took the bathroom out, took it to the deck, and began shaking it, hoping to get the ring out. That did not work.

Then he bought a sewer digicam and introduced it down 200 ft within the drain. Nonetheless, no ring. Lastly, the couple referred to as municipal staff to see if they may verify their cities pipes for the ring. They nonetheless did not discover it.

Then in March, Strand’s daughter got here throughout the Metropolitan Council’s Fb put up. Tons of of native residents had already referred to as in considering the discovered ring was theirs, the Council mentioned. Strand additionally referred to as in and a jewellery inspector confirmed that primarily based on an image it was most definitely her ring.

“Discovering a diamond within the tough is a once-in-a-lifetime occasion. We won’t discover issues that get flushed by chance. Bear in mind to solely flush the three Ps when flushing: poop, paper, and pee,” the Council mentioned in a Fb put up.