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Tuesday, May 18 at approximately 11 AM I received a call from Niomi regarding a ring she had lost at a Little League game. She asked if I would be willing to search for it and I said, of course. I gathered my equipment and made my way towards their ballpark. On the way I called Niomi to get the story. She had placed three tings inher pocket and she remembered counting them as she put them in. Then later, she left the bleacher area to use the porta potty and had her phone in the same pocket. On the way across the back of the ballfield, she pulled her phone out. When I arrived on the field, the first thing we searched was the porta potty. I convinced Niomi to stand on the porta potty while her daughter and I tipped it in four different directions very slowly. She could see nothing there. She was really anxious to get a ring back. Next, we searched around the metal objects of the field with a small coil and found nothing there. Niomi and her husband had rented a metal detector and detected for several hours, digging many holes in the field and finding just the usual debris. I started making straight line searches across the field, covering about 4 feet at a time. On the second pass, Niomi mentioned that she wouldn’t have gone through that area because there were standing water there at the time of the game. I asked her which side of the water she passed on, but she could not remember. I told Niomi and her daughter to just wait there and I was going to make some expanding circle searches around this wet area. On the second circle I received the sound that I was looking for. I saw the ring, but I didn’t tell Niomi her daughter right off that it was there. I then told her I needed a few pictures for documentation and I took the first picture of her pondering. I asked her what she was thinking. She said I think we might not find it. I said yeah I know what you mean but we haYour ring is right here. She was overjoyed to say the least. Her ring is back where it belongs.
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