{"id":1195,"date":"2006-06-20T09:22:27","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T17:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/06\/you_wrapped_up_my_ring_in_what_and_put_it_where.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T11:03:26","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T16:03:26","slug":"you_wrapped_up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/06\/you_wrapped_up.html","title":{"rendered":"You Wrapped Up My Ring In What And Put It Where?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/428158p-361069c.html\">someone buy this household a jewelry box<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Ron Goldstein found a diamond in the dump yesterday: His wife&#8217;s lost ring.<\/p>\n<p>The Staten Island man, who accidentally tossed the 3.5-carat bauble in the trash, watched as sanitation workers poked through tons of garbage in the searing heat before recovering the ring he gave his wife 35 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was afraid to go home unless I found it,&#8221; said a relieved Goldstein.<\/p>\n<p>The 63-year-old had tucked the ring in a napkin for safe keeping while his wife was in the hospital for a week before she returned home Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow the napkin wound up in the garbage.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday morning, around 7 a.m., the Staten Island grandfather awoke in a sweat. The napkin was nowhere to be found.<\/p>\n<p>He ran outside only to see a sanitation truck lumbering down the block and out of sight.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Heartbroken, he called the local Sanitation Department garage and an understanding supervisor arranged for Goldstein to follow the truck driven by Carlo Tanutco, 30, to a transfer station in Elizabeth, N.J.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I put all my garbage in yellow ShopRite bags and those bags into a black garbage bag,&#8221; Goldstein told officials.<\/p>\n<p>So the search began. Tanutco and fellow workers sorted through dozens of black garbage bags, piled more than 7 feet high.<\/p>\n<p>The heat and smell was getting to him, Goldstein admitted, but he wasn&#8217;t leaving.<\/p>\n<p>After just over an hour, some yellow bags suddenly appeared. Tanutco ripped them open, one by one, finally finding the napkin and in it, the diamond ring.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was a very happy man when he found the ring,&#8221; Tanutco said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was meant to be found,&#8221; Goldstein recalled. &#8220;It was like God giving me another shot.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please, someone buy this household a jewelry box: Ron Goldstein found a diamond in the dump yesterday: His wife&#8217;s lost ring. The Staten Island man, who accidentally tossed the 3.5-carat bauble in the trash, watched as sanitation workers poked through tons of garbage in the searing heat before recovering the ring he gave his wife [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-huzzah","category-staten_island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}