Aug. 20 (UPI) — A New Jersey woman who accidentally flushed her wedding ring down a train toilet was reunited with the precious object thanks to NJ Transit employees.
Julie Angelicola said she had just left the bathroom aboard an NJ Transit train when she realized her wedding ring was missing.
“So I’m kind of meticulously getting all of this soap off of my hands with toilet paper and literally going finger by finger, and crumpling it all up, trying to do it quickly – threw it in the toilet, flushed the toilet, went back to my seat,” Angelicola told WPVI-TV.
She reported the ring’s loss to NJ Transit, which took the train out of service.
Employees put the train up on jacks, removed the toilet tank and opened it up to discover Angelicola’s ring on top.
The ring was returned to Angelicola on Monday at a NJ Transit Customer Service Center.
Angelicola said the ring has immense sentimental value. The ring, believed to date back to 1905, was purchased from an antique store and Angelicola only later discovered that the initials engraved inside the ring matched the nicknames she and her husband have for each other.
