Posted on 08/12/2018 9:41:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin
John Landsteiner, who competed with the U.S. Curling team in early 2018, got his ring back in Huntington Beach after flying in from Duluth, Minnesota.
He also got the chance to meet the man who located the ring. Leon Jones of Buena Park made the discovery during one of his usual outings with his metal detector and then contacted the Olympian via FaceTime.
Landsteiner said he came to California for the ESPY Awards and lost the Olympic ring when he visited Huntington Beach.
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I don’t have such a ring, and probably never will, but I would think such a ring is meant to be stored in a box and left at home vs in everyday life. I could be wrong about that. I never even wanted to wear my rings from high school or college graduations. Yet I lost them anyway.
I’m guessing the guy who found the ring was hoping for a different reward other than a book of sports related drawings. Oh well. Not all former Olympians are monied up.
Great news.
You can’t pick-up hot chicks with an Olympic ring that’s home in a box,
In a related story, Sauron, a visitor from the Black Lands, was thrilled when he was reunited with a ring that he thought had been lost forever when it fell into the river Anduin at the end of the Second Age. Said the lucky Dark Lord, “ I thought I would ever see it again. It really is precious to me.” He gave a handsome reward to the honest finder of the One Ring, one Déagol, halfling from the river lands.
I’d wear it.
I’m sure that’s true.
he flew back to get the ring.
There is a network of metal detector users devoted solely to helping people find lost items.
They take no payment, and often travel great distances, purely for the satisfaction of helping.
Last year, one came from northern VA just to help me locate my Wonder Dobe’s grave, buried 34 years on my mom’s property, so I could bring home with me what we were able to find of him, in case she sells her house.
It was priceless to me and he took home nothing but my grateful tears and a heartfelt hug.
Several others also offered help but he was the one who got there, first.
There are still good people.
Seems like wearing it would be the way to go - of course none of my furniture has the clear plastic protective crap on it either.....
That is a great story.
I lost my wedding ring several years ago.
I had no idea what happened to it.
Oddly/happily, it turned up in my neighbors front yard after the last hurricane. We think the massive amount of moving water gouged it out of the ground.
YEARS ago, I was working over a school yard when some guy came up and asked me to look for his ring at a nearby beach. I jumped at the chance to do some REAL work with my detector.
We went to a hollow in the dunes where he said he lost it “about here”. Worked the area in an outward spiral with no results. Finally, near the top, I got a hit and found it. He offered me a $20 bill with a “You don’t really want it, do you?” look.
I refused, telling him that it may sound weird, but I was just as happy as he was in finding it.
Went back to the schoolyard and had the groundskeeper come up. Thought he was going to chase me off, but he asked me to find a manhole cover the repair crew had paved over.
Boy, did I find it! All that metal nearly blew my earphones off.
Oh yeah, I found two copper pennies by the swings.
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