Avoid tugging until your fingers are purple and smothering your hands with margarine with this amazing video tutorial on how to remove a ring by just using a piece of string.

To avoid cutting (and thus destroying) [the ring], take a piece of suture or thick string, and starting from the top of the finger, wrap very tightly down to the ring, compressing the tissue.

A woman spent 14 hours bouncing between three emergency rooms, trying desperately to get a tight ring off her finger. Although she finally managed to get it removed with an electric ring cutter ...