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New Year’s Eve ended on a disappointing note for Washington State resident, Brandon. He and his wife were visiting family in Milwaukee for the holidays. They were staying at a Motel when a few celebratory drinks combined with a marital spat did not end well. Brandon threw his wife’s wedding ring off the top-floor balcony into the cold wintry night. It was not a good way to start the New Year! Given the unfortunate circumstances, I am protecting Brandon’s identity in this story.

It happeed like this. I received a text from Brandon asking if I might be able to help. He was understandably embarrassed by his actions but, as a man should, he owned up to the situation taking full responsibility. In a few hours I met Brandon on location and began searching in an alleyway below the balcony where they had stayed. It was very cold; my equipment was struggling in the extreme temperatures. A light snowfall during the night made the search even more challenging as did the presence of a dozen brass 9mm pistol shell casings. Being in a residential area, the bullet casings begged answers to all kinds of sinister questions, answers that are probably best left unknown. Hopefully, their presence was a benign remnant of someone’s earlier New Year celebrations in lieu of fireworks.

The ring could have landed in any number places including a roof of a nearby garage or in any of several open garbage bins waiting collection. As it turned out, the beautiful love token was hiding in the snow behind one such bin! A few inches further, the ring could have ended up buried forever in a local landfill. I can attest to Brandon’s relief when his ring was found. Hopefully his marriage will be stronger for having weathered the storm.

If you or someone you know has lost a ring, even under embarrassing circumstances, give me a call. Life happens. Maybe I can help put the not-so-pleasant memory behind you—without judgment.

While working at the local casino Richard R. was clearing tables in the buffet restaurant. He came in to the Dish room where I work and emptied his cart full of dishes, glasses and table scraps. Before leaving our area he noticed his security badge missing. It clips on his collar and must have slipped off in the container holding table scraps while clearing tables. I told him I would search for it while he went back to the dining room clearing tables.

There are 2 50 gallon containers holding the table scraps, one was empty and the other one was almost full where he deposited his container. I proceeded to take handfuls of table scraps including crab claws and shells and emptying two handfuls at a time from one container to another while searching for his badge. This wasn’t my first rodeo with this type of search, I looked successfully for a mans retainer in his trash that he lost while in a nursing home (that time I was able to use my pin pointer). For Richards badge I got half way down the container and found his badge. After washing the badge off, Richard came back in to the dish room with another cart of plates and I gave him his access badge after getting a big thank you and a smile.

I was contacted by « anonymous » as she had lost her engagement ring in the mid Toronto area. During the search, she went inside, as she was very upset.  After searching the suggested areas by the customer, I expanded further & quickly found the very expensive ring within 5 minutes.

Another Very happy customer!

While carving pumpkins in their yard the gold wedding ring had been lost in the grass. The owner rented a metal detector in an attempt to locate the ring. Not finding the ring, he called me to search and in a short search the ring was found and returned. Another disaster prevented thanks to the Ring Finders!

I received a call that a young girl had lost her gold earring while at a backyard party at her Uncle’s house in Wykoff New Jersey. I met the at the house and performed a thorough search of the backyard. I recovered the lost earring making the owner very happy

 

I received a text from Henry who had lost his wedding ring on New Year’s Day in the parking lot at the Gerald R Ford International Airport.  He had returned 3 times to try and locate it with no luck.  He and his wife had recently moved to the Grand Rapids area from TX and were desperate to locate his ring which had been his wife’s Great Grandfather’s.   It was one of only a few items that her great grandparents were able to escape Poland with during WWII.  It was engraved with their wedding date back in 1923.  Even though the parking lot had been plowed, I was able to locate it covered in snow after a short search.  It was a little dinged up from being run over by the plow but Henry was amazed and elated he had it back to pass on to the next generation.