Jun 29, 2008 1:23 pm US/Eastern
Boy Finds Diamond Rings In Cape Cod Toilet
CHATHAM (WBZ) ―
A young Cape Cod boy who was fishing for his toothbrush in the toilet bowl found something a bit more valuable – two diamond rings.
According to the Cape Cod Times, Cameron Delane, 10, of Chatham put on a rubber glove and began reaching into the toilet to find his toothbrush. Instead, he found two tarnished rings that had been stuck in the toilet more than 10 years.
The family cleaned the rings, and brought them to a jewelry appraiser, who said the four diamonds on the rings amounted to well over one carat. "It's just bizarre," father Bill Delande said. "I've snaked that toilet so many times. When you have four kids, things get stuck in there, believe me."
Immediately, the family began to look for the owner, the paper reported.
After contacting the realtor who sold them the house, they eventually found Mary Trainor, whose mother owned the rings.
According to the paper, Trainor told Delande her mother, who just recently passed away, had put her rings on a piece of toilet paper after cleaning them 12 years ago. While cleaning the bathroom, she accidentally flushed the piece of toilet paper with the rings inside.
Somehow, the rings were able to stay in the toilet without ever being pushed out to the septic system.
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