A South Carolina woman loses her wedding ring in the trash and manages to recover it after an (almost) impossible mission. “If it was either of our wives and it was something that special, we would expect someone to do the same for us,” said a city worker who rummaged through piles of trash to find Melanie Harper's gold and diamond ring.

In November of last year, a New Hampshire woman also accidentally dropped her weddingRing into the trash. In this case, surveillance recordings were used to determine where the jewel could be.