How far would you go for love? For Steve Van Ysseldyk, the answer was simple: straight into 18 tonnes of rotting compost.
The Canadian man from British Columbia found himself on an unusual mission after his wife Jeannine’s wedding rings vanished.
The culprit? A spilled bag of buttery popcorn.
Somewhere between the garden cleanup and tossing the mess into the compost, the rings slipped away.
By the time the couple realised, the bin had already been emptied.
Most people would give up. Steve grabbed a shovel.
“The wife’s gotta have her rings, right?” he told the BBC, still sounding like a man on a mission.
Armed with gloves and determination, he headed to the Mission Sanitary Landfill.
Workers Were Stunned
“No one in their right mind would be doing that,” said site employee Denny Webster, who eventually pitched in with an excavator.
Then — miracle. Steve spotted some discarded sausages from their kitchen.
Moments later, one ring. Within the hour, both were back in his hands.
He called Jeannine, who burst into tears mid–metal detector shopping trip.
The rings are back where they belong, and the couple now has a story as priceless as the diamonds themselves.
After all, who says romance is dead?
