Diamond Ring Lost: Woman's Wedding Ring Found In Idaho Sewer

BOISE, Idaho -- A Boise woman says she believes in miracles after sewer workers found the $6,000 diamond wedding ring she accidentally flushed down the toilet 18 months ago.

Mechelle Rieger claimed the seven-diamond ring Thursday morning at City Hall in Kuna, bringing with her a photo and the March 2001 appraisal from the jeweler that made it.

Rieger thanked city workers Travis Fleming and Carey Knight, who spotted the ring along with loose coins in a filtration basket while doing routine maintenance last week.

Rieger said she freaked out and "just started screaming" when the ring accidentally fell in the toilet. She says there was more screaming involved when she got a voice message from a friend relaying the news about a ring being found in the sewer in her old neighborhood.

Comments

[Ken Holden]

06:30 PM on 04/15/2012

Not only drop it but flush it. just droping it in it dont go down! Im thinking she was mad one day and not in control hot head

[heldt666]

04:54 PM on 04/15/2012

Oh, I thought you were going to say..... oh never mind.

[Bopcolarry]

03:55 PM on 04/15/2012

I thought for sure it was going to turn up on Porn Stars???

[seabeeutcn]

01:50 PM on 04/15/2012

Not really that odd of a place. I lost mine one time too, inside..... forget it

[DSherline]

01:41 PM on 04/15/2012

I had to click on the link to see if whoever wrote the AOL link once again misused the word "bizzare" and sure enough...
Seeing as how the woman accidentally flushed the ring down the toilet is it really at all bizarre that it was found in a sewer?

[Justgo4it]

12:30 PM on 04/15/2012

boy she got lucky, lucky in the fact her hubby didn't crown her for losing it in the first place, and I never lay my rings by the sink.

[HMAC4LIFE]

08:35 PM on 04/15/2012

MY WIFE WAS ON VACATION PURCHASED SOME COSTUME JEWLERY EARRINGS; PLACED HER $3,000 DIAMOND STUDS IN TISSUE, THEN ACCIDENTALLY THROUGH THEM IN THE TRASH.

[Justgo4it]

02:53 PM on 04/16/2012

oooops. still married?

[wingthwong]

11:24 AM on 04/15/2012

How did it really get in the sewer? Women usually don't take off a $6000 ring over a sink with no drain or a toilet. Sounds a little perverted.

[rkeeeballs]

10:55 AM on 04/15/2012

now that's a rock and a hard place...yup

[Justgo4it]

12:35 PM on 04/15/2012

good try rkeeeballs , but it's actually," between a rock in a hard place", but you get an E for Effort, lol

[Justgo4it]

12:37 PM on 04/15/2012

oooooooops. between a rock "and " a hard place,

[rkeeeballs]

09:26 AM on 04/16/2012

You must not have noticed my bio . Rock and a hard place...no in between..lol