Woman Gets Ring Back After Flushing It

Woman Gets Ring Back After Flushing It

EMMITSBURG, Md. -- A $15,000 diamond ring is back on the hand of its owner, five weeks after it was accidentally flushed down a toilet.

A Mount St. Mary's University worker found Debbie Squiccimarri's engagement ring on a grate at the campus wastewater treatment plant last week, school spokesman Duffy Ross said Monday.

Squiccimarri, of Ramsey, N.J., lost the ring when it slipped off her finger into an automatic flush toilet while she was visiting the campus with her daughter Feb. 20, Ross said. She returned to the school Monday to pick it up.

"I had resigned myself to accepting that my ring was gone," Squiccimarri said in a university press release. "I guess this means I'll have to send my daughter to Mount St. Mary's."