June 19 (UPI) — Plumbers attending an emergency call in Michigan opened up a pipe and found an engagement ring that had been dropped into a toilet 10 years earlier.
Greg Johnson, owner of Titan Plumbing in Howell, said he and his team were attending to a situation with a sewer line at a shopping plaza in Hartland when they spotted a shiny object inside a pipe.
Johnson said it appeared to be an engagement ring.
“He picked it up, and we looked at each other, and he was like, ‘What do we do with this?’ I’m like, ‘Let’s see if we can find the owner,'” Johnson told CBS Detroit.
The plumbing company posted about the discovery on social media, and ended up hearing from a woman named Sue who works at the nearby Fountain of Youth Spa.
“She remembered 10 years ago that a customer that was in her store dropped her ring down the toilet, and Sue and this customer tried to fish it out themselves. They got big rubber gloves, and they were reaching in the toilet trying to get this ring out, and it was gone,” Johnson said.
The plumbers were eventually able to contact the woman, identified as Carol Oram.
“She and her husband Roger have been married for over 60 years, and after all this time, she never expected to see that ring again,” Titan Plumbing said on social media.
Jason Matznick, the general manager of Titan Plumbing, was able to get the ring back to Oram.
“She finally came in and saw the ring and said, ‘It looks like mine.’ She had original paperwork from 1965. She had been married with her husband for like 60 years,” Matznick said.
The ring was given a thorough cleaning at The Gold Depot.
“The funny part? We all thought it was yellow gold from years of buildup, but once it was cleaned, it turned out to be white gold,” the Facebook post said.
Matznick said Oram was overjoyed.
“She put it on; she was crying. It was cute,” he said.
