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    Couple Finds Engagement Ring in Toilet After 36 Years

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    Most women's wedding fantasies don't involve two proposals, but for Donna Claver it worked out quite well.

    The Montana woman lost her engagement ring in the early '70s. She was pregnant, and while applying lotion the gold and sapphire piece slipped from the top of the toilet and fell down the drain, according to Today.com.

    The ring had lodged itself in the drain of the toilet. Donna tried to fish it out, but it was stuck too tightly. She and her husband, Terry, tried everything to rescue the ring-including draining the toilet-but never succeeded. The two moved out eventually, though they didn't forget about the stubbornly stuck ring.

    Fast forward 36 years: Terry saw several homeowners shuffle through the house, until the building eventually became a hut for hunters in the area. When he saw the hunters carrying out the toilet last month, he stopped them and asked if he could take the fixture to throw out himself.

    The hunters naturally agreed, and Terry drove to a shop where he took a sledgehammer to the toilet. The ring remained exactly where it had been lost 36 years before.

    Terry called his wife to meet him at the shop; when she arrived, he got down on one knee and proposed.

    Romantic, yes -- though we do hope she got the jewel cleaned before wearing it.

    That's not the first time an engagement ring has been found in an unexpected place.

    In Albuquerque this month, a couple found a missing wedding band in their dog's stomach, according to the Associated Press.

    The couple, Rachelle and Scott Atkinson searched for the ring all over their house until they began to believe that the dog had eaten it. They took their 10-month-old basset hound to the vet, who x-rayed the pooch and saw the ring stuck inside her stomach -- and it wouldn't come out on its own.

    The vet removed the ring, and Rachelle and Scott now keep their jewels far away from the pup-basset hounds have a tendency to eat rocks, the vet told them.

     

    97 comments

    • Cartigan  •  4 mths ago
      ..why didn't he just replace the toilet in the first place? At least before they moved out.
      • martha 4 mths ago
        maybe the toilet was more expensive than the ring?
    • Lorraine  •  Dallas, Texas  •  4 mths ago
      36 years of stalking the property...waiting for someone else to take the toilet out.....okkkaaayyyy....
    • SH-89  •  4 mths ago
      It's typically the marriage that goes down the toilet first.
    • Murphy  •  4 mths ago
      no big deal, I see a ring in my toilet all the time
    • mouthpiecer  •  Irvine, California  •  4 mths ago
      Needless to say, Terry was flush with excitement when he smashed the toilet to pieces.
    • No  •  4 mths ago
      This is so not true. Why didn't they take the toilet out 36 years ago? A toilet is much cheaper than a saphire ring.
    • W.Ross Bs. BME  •  Dallas, Texas  •  4 mths ago
      Gold and precious stones in the toilet? You break the dang toilet and get it back!
    • CheckYourSix  •  4 mths ago
      My first marriage went in the toilet a lot quicker than that . . .
    • oldman  •  4 mths ago
      Lucky - so many couples find their marriage in the toilet after only 36 months.
    • Natika  •  Los Angeles, California  •  4 mths ago
      This is almost as good as the couple who found the ring on the carrot :D
      • Cartigan 4 mths ago
        No, that was entertaining. This is stupid.
      • A Yahoo! User 4 mths ago
        cartigan you are the stupid one you clicked in on it.
    • Stony  •  4 mths ago
      Must have been a really cheap ring. Anybody with half a brain would have just bought a new toilet and ripped out the one with the ring. Geez, in the 70s a toilet only cost about $35.
    • Make Lemonade  •  4 mths ago
      Why didn't they just bust the toilet in the first place? That is, unless the ring was a cheap piece of junk worth less than an old toilet from a hunting shack.
    • Emily  •  Highlands, North Carolina  •  4 mths ago
      Hell, I'd be happy enough just to find one on my finger.
    • Mike  •  4 mths ago
      Even if the ring itself wasn't worth that much, he should have replaced the toilet just for the rings symbolic value. Waiting 36 years for someone else to get around to replacing the toilet? What a cheapskate.
    • WAYNE  •  Cleveland, Ohio  •  4 mths ago
      my marriage was in the toilet after 36 days!!!!!!!!!! or was it 36 hours!!!!!!!!!!!!
    • George Kramer  •  Somerset, Massachusetts  •  4 mths ago
      The most amazing part of this story is that the house had a 36 year-old toilet. That's incredible.
    • Cosworth  •  4 mths ago
      Most marriages are in the toilet after 36 years !
    • K  •  Pensacola, Florida  •  4 mths ago
      Gross, You can keep it. No amount of cleaner would want me to touch that ring after 36yrs of toilet usage!
    • Dirk Durka  •  4 mths ago
      I guess some toilet rings never go away ...
    • mestes  •  4 mths ago
      It must have been a cheap ring, not to have paid a plumber to fix it the first place,
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