Mechelle Reiger, Idaho Woman, Is Reunited With Diamond Ring After Workers Find It In Sewer

When an Idaho woman accidentally flushed her $6,000 diamond wedding ring down the toilet, she was certain that it was gone forever.

"It was the most luxurious thing I've ever owned," Mechelle Reiger told KTVB. "I felt sick to my stomach."

But this week -- more than 18 months later -- Reiger was reunited with the custom-made ring after two sewer workers found it and returned it to City Hall.

Now, Reiger says, she believes that "miracles do happen."

According to KBOI-TV, waste water operators Travis Fleming and Carey Knight found the ring whilst working in the sewers in Kuna, Idaho.

"Some lady was probably really distraught," Knight reportedly said when he found it. "She lost a beautiful ring."

Reiger said that she was over the moon when she heard that someone had located a ring.

"I received a voice mail from a friend and I just started screaming in the car," Reiger told KBOI-TV. "I was like, "Oh my gosh, that's my ring."

Armed with a photo and an appraisal from the jeweler who made it, Rieger claimed the seven-diamond ring at the Kuna City Hall, the Associated Press reports.

Fleming and Knight were there too -- to meet the overjoyed owner of the ring that they had so honestly returned.

"We all took pictures and I gave them hugs," Reiger said. "I am so thankful for them."

Reiger told KTVB that her 25th wedding anniversary is fast approaching and the ring is simply "the best present ever."

"I feel so complete again," she said. "I've been so sad that it's been gone. It just hasn't been the same."

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Comments

[Dieseldagreat98]

12:35 PM on 09/01/2012

That's amazing.. There still exist good people out there.

[mnjlib]

12:40 AM on 04/15/2012

Honest people live life free from the burden of hidden sins... these sewer workers will enjoy the peace of knowing they are truly good people. I love honest people!

[up in the air]

03:09 PM on 04/14/2012

She should have taken better care of a expensive ring ,

[999theantiantichrist]

10:42 AM on 04/15/2012

Aw jeez, I come here to escape the nasty comments on the other pages and find the infection has spread....

I haz a sad.

[Jennifer Malcom]

07:31 AM on 04/14/2012

LMAO! that was just wrong!

[MACON MAN]

08:40 AM on 04/14/2012

Some people find diamond rings, look what I found ! Would have prefered a nice New York alligator however

[WeCanDoMore]

12:04 PM on 04/14/2012

You are no American. Not the one I grew up in. In case you're wondering, your lack of respect is called racism. If he were white, you would not dare. GOP are beneath the rest of us and simply are unevolved creatures.

[Mockdog]

01:10 AM on 04/14/2012

The Precious.......

[ihuber1]

12:53 AM on 04/14/2012

My x took the $8,000 ring I got her, so I can say I flushed it down the toilet as well.... Wish a sewer worker would retrieve it for me.

[WhippetGood]

12:31 AM on 04/14/2012

What a great story for everyone involved!!!!

Good things will come to the people who found and returned the ring.

[HRHuffinpuffy]

10:27 PM on 04/13/2012

Lets hear it for Ed Norton!

[commento]

09:41 PM on 04/13/2012

May those honest workers thrive.

[rosemaree124]

08:36 PM on 04/13/2012

Lucky lady...I hope she gave those great guys who found it a great big reward.

[LeeVing]

01:24 PM on 04/15/2012

And the husband got to watch!!!

[dancerctry]

07:11 PM on 04/13/2012

It's good to hear about honest people who do the right thing since there is such a sea of selfish people who would have sold the ring and split the money.

[john yunker]

06:09 PM on 04/13/2012

Cool story..Play the Powerball b4 ur luck goes away LOL

[Dan Legge]

02:15 PM on 04/13/2012

$6000 for that crappy ring?

[ebuist1825]

08:39 PM on 04/13/2012

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh GOOD ONE. I nearly fell off my stool, what a pizzer! Fanned & faved!