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Unfortunate flush sparks stinky search Lost jewelry: couple grateful for septic company owner’s lengthy and determined treasure hunt. By Martha Wickett obServer STAFF
When dani and david Jacobsen are asked for parenting advice, they don’t hesitate. “don’t leave your jewelry by the toilet.” Perhaps not the most common parenting tip, but one they wish they’d heard. The Jacobsens are the parents of cohen, 5, and Grady, 2. When cohen was two, dani was getting ready
to have a bath with him so she took off her jewelry – a pair of diamond earrings, her wedding band, her engagement ring and a pendant necklace. This was 2013. She thinks her husband put them on the tub surround for her. When she couldn’t find them a while later, david thought perhaps he’d put them somewhere else. “We were scouring the house – we just looked everywhere,” says dani. cohen soon came to mind.
“He was going through a flushing stage. He was quite enamoured with the toilet. A couple of days before he had flushed an entire apple. He was flushing stuff right, left and centre.” They asked him if he’d seen Mommy’s pretties. “He took us to the toilet and told us he flushed them,” dani recounts. They thought he was joking, but soon realized they were facing the truth. And so began the great jewelry hunt.
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They started by taking out the toilet. “I think we ended up breaking the toilet to see if it had got stuck,” says dani. Then david, an underground pipe layer by trade, headed under the house. “He had to go on his back. He spent four or five hours under the house, taking one pipe out at a time, looking with a flashlight and having to glue it back together.” See Work on page A2
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Gratitude: Jacob Starnyski gives the ring to Donna and Doug Howard, Dani Jacobsen’s parents.
Index Opinion ....................... A6 View Point .................. A7 Life & Times ............... A8 Sports................A13-A15 Time Out................... A16 Arts & Events ... A17-A18 Vol. 109, No. 9, 36 pages