美國婦人誤丟戒指 翻遍10噸垃圾找回

A Massachusetts woman who mistakenly threw away her diamond ring last week recovered the family heirloom after tracking down the garbage truck and searching through 10 tons of city trash bags.

Joan Sawyer of Bedford says all her efforts paid off after realizing the horror of dropping her diamond ring into her single trash bag, that wound up among thousands of others.

“I was in total panic,” Mrs Sawyer told WHDH-TV, saying she thought she'd never see the heirloom again.

Her diamond ring dropped by accident in the trashcan and only realized after a dump truck had made a stop at their house.

“I said, 'Oh my God, it's in the rubbish truck,' “Mrs Sawyer recalled before calling the Allied Waste Service.

Allied Waste was able to find the truck number specifically that had come to their door and tell them where it was heading.

Mrs Sawyer and her husband waited for three hours watching out for her 24-44 truck to arrive.

But to their mixed relief, it arrived, emptying 10 tons of trash in a room.

Lucky enough to have the voluntary aid of Covanta workers who helped the Sawyers pick through the mounds of black trash bags and other waste, as her husband Bill Sawyer described, the crew were relentless before there was a shimmer of light at the end of their tunnel.

“I said, 'Oh my God, that's my bag, I recognize something in it,’ '' Mrs Sawyer recalled.

Mr Sawyer began to tear the trash bag apart, and there, it appeared.

“You could almost see the tears in her eyes; she was thrilled she found it,” Ken Nydam of Covanta told WHDH-TV.

“And then everyone who helped out, they were just happy they got to see how happy she was and we were happy we could help them out,” he added.據英國《每日郵報》11月17日報道，美國馬薩諸州的一名女性上週誤將自己的一枚鑽石戒指丟掉，在追着垃圾車翻遍10噸的城市垃圾後終於找回了她的這一傳家珍寶。

貝德福德市的瓊-索耶稱說，在上千個垃圾袋中找回自己曾誤丟戒指的那一袋，她所有的努力都值得了。

索耶女士告訴WHDH-TV的記者說：“我害怕極了。”她以爲自己再也見不到這枚傳家鑽戒了。

她的鑽石戒指不小心掉在了垃圾桶裏，直到自卸汽車停在他們家門口時她才意識到戒指丟了。

索耶夫人回憶道：“我說，‘天哪，戒指在垃圾桶裏。’”隨後我就給廢品服務公司打了電話。

廢品公司能查到來他們家收垃圾的垃圾車的具體車牌號，並告知他們該車開向了哪裏。

索耶夫人和她的先生等待了三個小時，注意尋找車號爲24-44的卡車到達廢品站。

但是該車回來時帶回了10噸的垃圾，全部傾倒在一個房間裏。這令他們既安心又爲難。

足夠幸運地是卡萬塔公司的員工自願幫助索耶夫婦搜尋垃圾。索耶夫人的丈夫——比爾-索耶形容道，工人們都堅持不懈即使還有一絲希望之光。

索耶夫人回憶道：“我說‘天哪，那是我的垃圾袋，我認得它裏面的東西。’”

索耶先生扯開袋子，戒指就出現了。

卡萬塔公司的肯-尼達姆告訴WHDH-TV說：“你幾乎能看見她熱淚盈眶，找到戒指時她激動極了。”

他補充道：“所有幫忙出力的人都很開心見到她喜極而泣的樣子。我們也很高興能幫他們擺脫困境。”