Flushed but not forgotten: woman reunited with ring after 13 years

Sewage workers recovered the ring and took to social media to find its owner. Photograph: Urban Zone/Alamy

Thirteen years after she accidentally flushed it down the toilet, a Minnesota woman’s pipe dream came true: she was reunited with the gold diamond ring once gifted to her by her husband.

“Oh my gosh, this is my ring,” Strand said at the metropolitan council office in Rogers when she was presented with the ring for the first time since losing it. “It’s nice to see it again.”