Walt Disney World seems to have worked its magic on a Massachusetts couple who accidentally threw away three platinum and diamond wedding rings.
While tidying up their villa as they prepared to leave the park late last week, Paul Campanale dumped a cardboard bowl, not knowing the container inside it held his wife Karen’s engagement, wedding and five-year-anniversary rings.
Park employees warned the couple from Worcester, Massachusetts, that recovering the jewellery was all but impossible. So on Friday, the Campanales and their two children boarded a bus and headed to the airport.
Back at the Wilderness Lodge resort, executive housekeeper Drew Weaver realised that trash from the Campanales’ villa had not reached the industrial-size compactor yet. He and seven other volunteers donned protective clothing, emptied a parking-lot bin and waded through bag after bag of rubbish to find the rings. And they did.
Paul Campanale (37), a chemist, received the good news on his cellphone and Weaver met the family to deliver the rings. Karen Campanale (35), a teacher, said she was shocked by the find.
”That’s not the first time we’ve gone through trash — oh, no,” Weaver said. ”We don’t always find things. Many times we come up empty. But we didn’t this time.” — Sapa-AP