The once anonymous English couple who lost an engagement ring down a Times Square utility grate is thanking the New York Police Department for finding it.
John Drennan and Daniella Anthony tweeted on Sunday how happy they were that officers found the ring, which they thought had been lost forever.
The NYPD had been looking for them since Saturday, after getting the ring out of the grate. He proposed to her in Central Park and she says it slipped off her finger and fell into the grate late Friday night.
They asked for help, but police were initially unsuccessful at getting the ring out and the couple left for England without leaving their names or contact information.
The NYPD tracked them down by putting the word out on social media.
Here’s a photo of the ring our officers recovered (and cleaned!) Call 1-800-577-TIPS or DM @NYPDTips if you know the happy couple so we can return it to them! pic.twitter.com/hzFXxuMVJW
— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) December 1, 2018
We would like to thank everyone who shared this story! The (now) happy couple is back in their home country, but thanks to your retweets they heard we were looking for them! We’re making arrangements to get them their ring back. Congratulations! https://t.co/rXHxxkwClm
— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) December 2, 2018
What a beautiful ending to an almost unbelievable story. Good luck in the future John and Daniella! Stay away from those subway grates! 😉💍 https://t.co/aHFDzk7ao9
— NYPD Manhattan South (@NYPDPBMS) December 2, 2018
(AP)
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Unusually, on this occasion, I’m with the insufferably self-righteous crowd of this parish who will be asking: “what have the misfortunes of this goyeshe couple got to do with us?”
For this lady he had to take a knee twice. Better be Ms. Right.
But his sechel? Who proposes on top of an open sidewalk grate.
BTW Thank you YWN for posting this extremely shayach piece of news. Azah kiddish Hashem NYPD. Chaveirim couldn’t have done it any better.