July 21st, 2009 by Brad Lovell

This is quite an amazing story. Last night I was at Waterloo helping Brian search for his wife’s lost wedding ring. The previous night, she had removed her wedding and engagement ring before boot camp training, and placed the rings in a pocket within her bag. When walking back to her apartment block, she removed the keys from her bag. We are guessing it was at this point the wedding ring fell out of the pocket and onto the ground below. Brian’s wife recalled hearing something drop, but could not remember exactly where she was when this happened. To make recovery more difficult, the ring was dropped on a foot path area which gets lots of foot traffic. Anyway, I searched the grass and gardens to the side of the path. After about an hour of searching and many bottle caps later, no wedding ring to be found. I mentioned to Brian there is a good chance someone could have picked the ring up due to the amount of people walking in this area. Just as we we’re about to give up hope, I said to Brian I am just going to scan one level deeper, away from the path..as you never know how far a ring can roll. My stubbornness turned out to be a blessing. As I was still searching, a gentleman asked Brian what we we’re looking for. Brian mentioned we we’re searching for his wife’s wedding ring. The gentleman said he had found a ring in that same area the night before. After describing the lost ring, we had a match! The man was a tourist from Turkey, and happily returned the ring to Brian. The chances of us being there at the exact moment the man walked by is very freakish. If we had of left 5 minutes earlier, or I could not get out to do the search until the following morning, we would probably have never ran into the honest man who had found the ring. As one could imagine, Brian and his wife are very relieved to have the ring back in their possession.