Trashed celery stalk, luck, lead to lost wedding rings

WINDHAM, N.H. — A celery stalk sighting and a little luck came together to help a New Hampshire man find his wife's wedding rings in a 20-ton trash trailer, the jewelry wrapped in a napkin he had accidentally thrown away.

Kevin Butler had taken the trash to a transfer station in Windham last Wednesday. Unwittingly, he had tossed the napkin into the white trash bag, not realizing his wife had cleaned the rings and wrapped them in the napkin to dry.

“He said, ‘I'm pretty sure I threw the rings out,' ” Dennis Senibaldi, transfer station supervisor, said.

Senibaldi and his crew used an excavator to scoop trash from the trailer.

After about five or six scoops, they saw a white bag with a telltale clue.

“Literally, I opened up the napkin, there were the two rings,” Senibaldi said.

Butler hugged Senibaldi.