Ring flushed down toilet back with Bay Area family

Sanitation workers have reunited an East Bay family with an heirloom ring more than a month after a 3-year-old boy flushed it down the toilet.|
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UNION CITY — Sanitation workers have reunited a San Francisco Bay Area family with an heirloom diamond and sapphire ring that their 3-year-old son flushed down the toilet.

After several attempts, Union Sanitary District crews found the ring last week, about a month and a half after it disappeared from Munazzar and Mehvish Tapal's Union City home. Wastewater Collection Supervisor Shawn Nesgis tells KTVU-TV (http://bit.ly/11gofyH) the ring traveled about 1/3 of a mile.

Crews flushed the sewer lines and discovered the ring after vacuuming up debris.

Nesgis equated the discovery to finding a needle in a haystack.

The Tapals say the ring's return was a miracle. Munazzar Tapal estimates the ring has been in his family for 60 years.

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Information from: KTVU-TV.

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