With the high divorce rate in the United States, lots of marriages get flushed away.
For one couple, still together nearly 40 years later, it was their engagement ring that went down the toilet. Through a series of unusual circumstances, a couple in Stanford, Montana were able to retrieve the ring they thought was long gone more than three decades after it disappeared.
Before her second wedding anniversary, Donna Claver took off her engagement ring and placed it on the tank of her commode. The ring slipped off and fell into the bowl, coming to rest inside the hole at the base. Efforts to retrieve the lost jewelry proved futile and over time the family moved out of the house, which was inhabited by several other families over the ensuing years. At least they knew where it was, unlike the woman whose ring was stolen and swallowed by a thief.
By a stroke of luck, husband Terry Claver was working on a house across the street from his former home and saw the current inhabitants trucking away a broken toilet. Claver asked if he could have the broken fixture and the current residents obliged. Cracking open the porcelain base, Terry Claver found the long-lost ring, none the worse for being stuck in a toilet for so long. There’s no word if the Clavers’ memento was as impressive as the engagement ring Prince William gave to Kate Middleton.
What is it about losing rings in stinky places? Along with the Clavers’ toilet ring, there’s the case of the wedding ring lost among 10 tons of trash in New Jersey.
