Disney World Employees Dig Through Trash to Find Wedding Bands

It’s been a while since we posted something here that wasn’t awful - so here’s a feel-good story for today.

Paul Campanale and his wife Karen, from Massachusetts, were staying at Disney World’s Wilderness Lodge and Resort. As they were packing up to leave the park last week, Paul accidentally threw out a cardboard bowl - inside the bowl were Karen’s engagement ring, wedding band, and a five-year anniversary ring!

When they initially asked park employees about trying to retrieve the items from the trash (it had already been collected from the room), they were told that recovering the jewelry was pretty much impossible. With their plane waiting, the Campanales and their two children had no choice but to head to the airport on Disney’s Magical Express bus from the resort.

But back at Disney, the Wilderness Lodge executive housekeeper, Drew Weaver, realized that the garbage from the building where the Campanales had stayed hadn’t reached the trash compactor yet. He and seven other Disney employees emptied a parking lot waste bin and waded through bags and bags of trash, eventually finding the rings.

Weaver and his team met the family at the bus’ next stop to deliver the jewelery.

Weaver told Boston’s ABC-TV affiliate,”That’s not the first time we’ve gone through trash. We don’t always find things. Many times we come up empty. But we didn’t this time!”