AIBU to be curious about this story of the ring lost in Maine and found in Finland?

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News report:

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/17/womans-ring-lost-47-years-ago-in-us-is-unearthed-in-a-forest-in-finland?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Posting for traffic in the hope some MNer with an interesting specific niche work specialism will have proper reality-based knowledge of how this is likely to have happened.

I wondered if it might be something to do with forest or land management but I don’t know if that’s a thing, is it - moving trees from Maine to Finland sounds pretty unlikely.

There will probably be a basic explanation I’m totally missing.

I have no reality based knowledge but guess it was found/stolen at the department store where she lost it by someone who either visited Finland themselves, or sold/gave it to someone who did. That person then lost it in the forest. Nice story - glad she got it back.

Could someone have found it in the department store and thought "finders keepers", then travelled to Finland and it got lost there? Intriguing!

It says she left it in a department store, surely it’s unlikely that it was anything to do with trees being transplanted across the world (and why would that be happening?)

I would have though more likely nicked by someone in the department store and taken to Finland before being dropped in the forest.

I don’t think it’s that common to move plants And soil between countries for planting Because of the risk of introduce new parasites and illnesses into the ecosystem.

She lost it in a shop, someone found it. They went to Finland and at some point lost it themselves, a metal detector hobbyist came across it.

No clever tree-based shenanigans required.

That will be the simple explanation I hadn’t thought of

AIBU though to wish it WAS something about unlikely tree-based shenanigans, leading to one of those interesting revelations we sometimes get on MN about a little-known aspect of our modern global society?

That's amazing! I'd love to know how it got there. What a good looking woman she is.

YADefinitelyNBU to wish that. Personally I'm going with a bird, fascinated by the shiny jewel, picking it up and flying it to Finland to impress a mate. They ooh'd and ahh'd over it every winter while the eggs were incubating. Eventually, it fell out of the tree one day as one of their little ones tipped the nest when first launching into the sky. It settled in the earth below, covered over the years by leaves and twigs, buried deeper occasionally by hedgehogs or squirrels, while the bird family thrived in the tree above.

What a good looking woman she is

What has that got to do with it?!

I'm going with the bird story too.

What has that got to do with it?!
I wish there was a eye roll emoji.

OP, I agree. I clicked on the story myself hoping to read something really interesting - the the lost wedding ring in the garden being found on a carrot, which was a great story - but nope, sadly this one was more dull.

Don’t blame you for wanting tree shenanigans in the slightest
😉

Clearly Santa found it one Christmas Eve and was taking it back for Mrs Claus but dropped it on the way to Lapland

It would be nice to think it'd been carried there by a secret transport via the Wood Wide Web =)

www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/05/wood-wide-web-underground-network-microbes-connects-trees-mapped-first-time

@SeaEagleFeather there we go! That’s exactly the kind of interesting thing I was craving 🌳

I have one of those, almost identical but with a red stone and in gold. It's a class ring from the 50's I think. My Mum wore it to the day she died so the dates on the side are quite faded.
I'm not entirely sure where it came from, we have no relations in the USA, but it's been in the Midlands for most of it's life.