Wedding ring 'found on carrot' after 16 years

[Viva_La_Revolution]

A Swedish woman has discovered her wedding ring on a carrot growing in her garden, 16 years after she lost it, says a newspaper.

Lena Paahlsson had long ago lost hope of finding the ring, which she designed herself, reports Dagens Nyheter.

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It was not until 16 years later when Mrs Paahlsson was pulling up carrots in her garden that she noticed one with the gold band fastened tightly around it.
Lena Paahlsson and her husband, Ola Lena Paahlsson and husband Ola say it is incredible that the ring has been found

"The carrot was sprouting in the middle of the ring. It is quite incredible," her husband Ola said to the newspaper.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16374283

This is why you should ALWAYS compost

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. awesome

[Little Star]

2. Just another reason it's good to eat carrots...

this would never happen with growing tomatoes in your garden!

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

3. One carrot Diamond?

[cstanleytech]

4. Your evil

lol

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

5. Yeah I know...

[timtom]

8. I can't believe

I never even saw this coming...

[proud patriot]

6. too cool

[MilesColtrane]

7. You can't trust carrots.

Just ask Dr. Smith.

[tclambert]

10. I didn't know John Boehner was on Lost in Space.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

9. Amazing, a 16 year old carrot.

Doesn't look a day over 3 months.

[htuttle]

11. Somebody married a carrot?

... I should probably read the article more closely.

[beac]

12. If I didn't know it was real, I'd have thought this was one of Garrison Keillor's stories

straight out of Lake Woebegon.