Asbury Park Area Realtor's Sign On The Shore Of France To Return

A realtor sign washed away by Superstorm Sandy that crossed the Atlantic Ocean from Brielle and landed at Bordeaux, France will soon return to New Jersey, according to a report.

Turton and several others will be going to France to pick up the sign and bring it back by Aug. 15, according to News12.

"I was in Manhattan a couple of weeks ago and randomly going up to people asking them if they heard about the sign and they all said ‘oh my God what a story’ and I would say that's me and they would say oh my God oh my God," Diane Turton told News12.

A Belgian man strolling the beach found a chunk of a Diane Turton Realtors sign in Bordeaux earlier this year, France.

Hannes Frank, who lives in Brussels and also has a home in Bordeaux, contacted the realtor to let them know he had found their sign.

"Diane and I don't sleep," said Perry Beneduce, marketing director for Diane Turton, Realtors. "She's up at 1, 3 and 5 doing email, and I am too."

On May 18, it was that 3:30 a.m. awakening that had Beneduce checking email, where he found a message sent through the company's website about the sign.

"I was skeptical about where it could be coming from," he said, so even as he told Turton about the email, he asked Frank to send him a photo.

"He sends me several photos," and when they checked the latitude and longitude information embedded into the digital information on the photo, they were able to confirm Frank was telling the truth.

"It was crazy," he said.

Photos courtesy of Diane Turton, Realtors, published with permission