9 years after being flushed, woman's wedding ring reappears

SOMERS POINT, N.J. � A New Jersey woman has her wedding ring back, nine years after she accidentally flushed it down her toilet.

Paula Stanton was sure the diamond-encrusted gold ring was lost forever after she noticed it wasn�t on her finger while she was cleaning her bathroom nearly a decade ago.

Luckily, a member of Somers Point�s public works department remembered Stanton mentioning the ring about three years ago.

Last month, Ted Gogol was doing maintenance work near a manhole about 400 feet from Stanton�s house. He told the Press of Atlantic City he saw a shiny object sitting in the mud.

It turned out to be Stanton�s ring, and after boiling it in peroxide and lemon juice, she is wearing it again.

� Associated Press

Information from: The Press of Atlantic City (N.J.), http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com