Wedding rings lost — and found! — in 'stinky, gross, wet' compost pile at Mission landfill

There are things worse than a needle in a haystack. Try two precious wedding rings, lost somewhere in a slimy heap of compost — about three dump trucks’ worth.

That’s the impossible situation Steve Van Ysseldyk found himself in last week when his wife, Jeannine, misplaced her rings while cleaning up a bag of movie theatre popcorn that had spilled onto their lawn.

Through some expert sleuthing, including scouring security video at his dad’s place in Abbotsford, Van Ysseldyk was able to confirm that his wife still had her rings on Wednesday.

The couple went to a movie that night. A day later they realized the rings were missing. When they zeroed in on their home security camera on Thursday night, they saw that the rings seemed to vanish around the time Jeannine picked up the popcorn lefto