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Lost Ring in Council Bluffs, IA found after 3 months

  • from Omaha (Nebraska, United States)
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In late June, I responded to a Craigslist offering my assistance in locating a ring lost in a local park.  I received a response stating that they had already searched the area with a metal detector with no luck other than the usual trash and a little bit of change.   I had never given much thought to hunting that park, because a few years ago much of it was ripped up and completely redone.  I put this one off in the back of my mind.

Until this weekend, every time I drove by that newly remodeled park this summer I noticed that there was quite a bit of activity as of late.  I decided to have a look around, Saturday I found some loose change and a little silver ring.  My wife was with me this trip and I managed to put off her boredom for a little over an hour.

Sunday afternoon I had a chance to get away to take another look.  After about 2 hours, with nothing much to show but a little change, I received a signal that had a rather low id (normally trash) but it was a good solid signal.  I took my pin-pointer out and waved it over the spot and received a solid tone (metal close to the surface.)

I pulled the grass back and immediately recognized that glimmer as a white gold ring……I thought to myself, what would the odds be of someone else losing a ring in that same area.  Shortly after getting home, I pulled up that email I had saved months earlier and replied to it asking for a description of the ring that was lost.  From the description I received it was pretty obvious…..we had a match.

Tonight I met and returned the ring to Brittney and found that it was lost while putting lotion on a little one while at an outdoor concert.   She thought it was gone forever….

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Lost Ring Recovered – Memorial Park, Omaha Ne

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Sunday morning, I noticed an ad on Craigslist for a wedding ring that was lost in a local park.  I contacted the person and arranged a meeting that afternoon (besides it was going to get me out of mowing the lawn)  I arrived at the park a little early and managed to find 16 cents, two bottle caps, and a couple of the ever present pull-tabs.   Shortly thereafter I met Paula and her husband and got into the details of what happened.

She took off her engagement ring and put that in her pocket but left her wedding band on she put on a baseball glove to join a game of catch.   After playing catch for a bit they began heading back to their car.  She pulled the glove off and retrieved her engagement ring from her pocket, that’s when she noticed that her wedding band was no longer on her finger.

She showed me the general area where she thought she had pulled the glove off on the way back to the car.  I set up a couple of stakes to mark of that area and begin searching.  Shortly after I started, she and her husband begin intently looking at the area where she was standing playing catch.   She felt that it may have been more likely that she dropped it anywhere from there towards where I was searching.  I shifted my focus to where she was standing while playing catch.    Three or so hours of searching for turned up nothing.  Paula and her husband had to leave a little earlier to drop some relatives at the airport, so I sent her a text to let her know that I hadn’t found anything but I wasn’t giving up.

Two days later afforded, about an hour to search after work on my way to get my wife.  I changed my focus back to the original area and begin a grid search.  I had roughly 10 minutes left before I had to get my wife and decided to head for the car.   I was about 15 feet from the car when I had a solid signal on top of the ground.  Stuck the pin-pointer in the grass and had a sold tone, pulled back the grass to reveal a nice platinum band with diamonds.

I immediately took a picture with my phone and sent her a text…..”I hope this looks familiar.”    Shortly after, I received a phone call from a very excited Paula…..she couldn’t believe that I had found it.

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Lost Wedding Ring Recovered, Fremont, NE

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Received a call Monday evening from Eric stating he lost his wedding ring over the weekend.  The ring came of his finger while playing volleyball in about 5 ft of water.    He and his friends searched for two hours without any luck…

We made arrangements to meet Tuesday evening after work.  He was headed to PA on Weds and then out of the country for several weeks.

It was a fairly small search, 15 x 15, in one corner of a roped off swimming area.  After going over that area pretty well, for about an hour, we started to expand the search.  Shortly after that, I had a good signal in roughly 4 feet of water.  Using a homemade digging tool with a mesh bag attached, I raked the bottom and pulled it up out of the water.  There in the bottom of the bag was a ring.  I swung it over to him and asked him “What does that look like to you?

He didn’t see it at first, but when he did, he gave me a look of disbelief with a side of grin.  He reached in, pulled it out, and promptly put it back on his finger.

I’m pretty sure he made a phone call to his wife shortly after we parted ways.

Eric, it was a pleasure meeting you and thanks for giving us a call.  Tony

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