Lost wedding ring returns home after a newspaper story

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA woman who lost her wedding ring at a University of Nebraska-Lincoln football game has it back, UPI reports, thanks to a friend and a newspaper article.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA newspaper article. Doing the work.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe ring was handed to campus police the day after the opener, and it sat in the police lost-and-found database for a month.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorNobody made contact.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSo there's a database, and it works perfectly. You just have to already know where the ring is.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorShe didn't know she'd lost it on campus. She assumed it was somewhere at home.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThirtieth anniversary, the day after. So for one month she was married and the ring was in custody.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorPolice teamed up with the university's communications office, and the Lincoln Journal Star ran the story.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA friend read it and asked her about the ring at a church meeting in Omaha.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorMy theory is the database is decorative. Somebody built it so the lost-and-found could feel organised, and nobody told the rings.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorShe searched her house for a month. It was in a database. The database was not searching for her.