Diamond Rings Found In A Toilet Bowl
It is very rare to have a gratifying experience when children stick their hands into a toilet.
Last week, as 10-year-old Cameron Delande from Chatham slipped on a rubber glove and dunked his hand into the toilet bowl to get his tooth brush, he found two diamond rings.
Initially Bill, Cameron’s father, a firefighter admit that no one believed his son, until he saw the rings in his son’s hand. The band was black and the stones were brown.
After taking the rings to get them cleaned, the jewelry appraiser told the family that the four stones on both rings amounted to well over a carat. The appaiser also told Delande that the solitaire might be about 100 years old from the look of its condition.
The discovery of the rings actually shocked Delande who says, “It’s just bizarre… I’ve snaked the toilet so many times. When you have four kids, things get stuck in there, believe me.”
Delande wanted to show his children the rewards of a good deed and so he decided he would try and find the owner of the rings.
Delande began his search right away, calling his real estate agent who sold the house to him on Tangelwood Drive two years ago. The agent told Delande the name of the previous owner: Mary Trainer. He told Delande that Mrs. Trainer worked in Starbucks as well.
Cameron Delande holds one of the diamond rings he found in a toilet. He’s with Mary Trainor, whose mom lost the ring.
Delande took a visit to the Starbucks in Harwich, but had gotten there to late since Trainer had already left work.
Delande called information and soon enough was answering to Trainer’s voicemail box leaving her a long message. While Trainer was screening her calls she suddenly caught Delande saying, “I think I found something you’d be very interested in,” which was when she picked up her phone almost immediately.
The first thing she says when picking up the phone, which completely shocked Delande was, “Please tell me you found the diamond rings.”
Once responding to Trainer, Delande stated, “She was pretty much speechless.”
Trainer told Delande that her mother had been cleaning the rings and then wrapped them up in toilet paper so they can dry up. As Trainer’s mother finished cleaning up the bathroom, she chucked the piece of paper into the toilet and flushed it.
This unfortunate incident happened twelve years ago and her mother had passed away only five years ago. Trainer says she wishes she can show her mother the rings and have her wear them again.