Lost Ring Found at Owner’s Home
Two days ago I got a text from Nico requesting some help finding his ring that he lost a couple months ago in front of his house while playing basketball with his son. I was a bit concerned about the amount of time that had elapsed, but agreed to meet him yesterday at his house to make an attempt.
When I met Nico I found out that he had already searched extensively for his lost ring, even purchasing a metal detector that he and his boy had been using to look for the ring. The description he gave me of how he lost the ring was very clear: he had lost it while dribbling a basketball and somehow the ring went flying off his hand. It was dark and he heard the ring bounce once on the cement driveway but then it was gone. He also described a vehicle being parked partially in the driveway, which would limit the distance that the ring could have travelled in one direction (into the street). Because he wore his ring on his left hand and he happened to be facing the street, I suspected that the ring might be in his neighbor’s yard that butted up against his driveway on one side. So I made a plan to first search his neighbor’s yard close to his driveway, and then to search his yard close to his driveway if this didn’t work out.
After confirming we had permission to search his neighbor’s yard and gathering my equipment, I worked the edge of the yard very slowly and within about 2 minutes got a very strong surface signal in his neighbor’s wood chips. As I bent down to examine it, I saw the glint of metal peeking through. I reached down excitedly and extracted Nico’s ring from his neighbor’s yard.
Nico, his son, and I spent another 10 minutes helping him learn how to use the metal detector he purchased, and found out that it worked fine on the ring as well. So he must not have been precisely on the spot that I had focused my search on. I was happy to make another ring return to it’s owner.
