A Philadephia-area family recovered their mother’s lost wedding rings after searching through nearly a thousand bags of trash at a local landfill.
Susan Myers, 83, of Downingtown, PA, lost the jewelry at Paoli Hospital, where she was taken Sept. 29 after collapsing at her husband’s funeral. Her family had removed the rings, a pearl bracelet and a 50th anniversary ring in the emergency room and placed them in a rubber glove tied with a knot.
The glove was later misplaced, then mistakenly thrown away.
Frantic searches the next day eventually led the family to Frank Dabney, the hospital employee who emptied the trash from Myers’ room. He told them their only hope was to search the landfill in Honey Brook where the hospital’s trash is taken. They found the ring hours later wearing fisherman waders, gloves and masks.
Have you ever recovered anything thrown out?
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Source: WPVI (yes– there’s a fun video)
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