Marin woman gets back necklace lost down toilet months earlier Marin woman gets back necklace lost
A San Rafael woman’s treasured gold necklace survived an incredible journey when it was accidentally flushed down the toilet in October. Sanitation department workers found it last week and have returned it to the woman.
Ann Aulakh had worn the Italian gold Byzantine chain every day — “basically all the time except when getting X-rays,” she said — since her husband Jeet gave it to her during their first Christmas together in 1993. But one sleepless night in October it fell off her neck, into the toilet, and was flushed down the drain. She thought she’d never wear it again.
But her friend and neighbor Lynn Kemmeter, a former elementary school teacher, called the San Rafael sanitation district and reported the necklace missing in the sewer pipes. Kemmeter, whose civic-minded attitude inspires friends to call her “Citizen Lynn,” hoped that the necklace might somehow be recovered.
And she was right: The department found the necklace and told Kemmeter, who had hoped to wrap it up and deliver it to Aulakh, also a former teacher.
http://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2012/02/09/marin-woman-gets-back-necklace-lost-down-toilet-months-earlier/
Hooray for honestly!
