Like a vacation in Vegas, what goes on in a public toilet usually stays there . . . but not always.

Buck WolfWhen a woman flushed her engagement ring down the toilet of a Phoenix diner, she nearly gave up hope that she'd ever see it again. But one determined plumber has found what has been hailed as "A Diamond in the Roughage."

Getty ImagesTwo million people are expected in Washington for the Inauguration of Barack Obama, and organizers have only scraped up 5,000 Port-a-Johns. That's 400 Obama supporters per toilet -- odds that could turn any blue stater even more blue.
A public toilet in Munich has been transformed into an art museum, largely featuring graffiti with a political theme. One of the most popular images: a sketch of Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel flanking a urinal.
"I heard this roaring noise," Blanca Trevino-Koester told WOAI-TV in San Antonio TV Station. "It sounded like a tornado to me."
An 18-year-old woman hit her boyfriend over the head with a toilet seat after reportedly catching him smoking crack in the bathroom.
A town in southern India is paying residents close to a dollar a month to use public urinals, a plan to promote public hygiene.
Some people would rather not think about it, but the people of Zheleznovodsk, a town in the south of Russia, are offering their salute to a a medical procedure for those of us who are feeling a little bunched up inside.
A 31-year-old man had to call his wife to free him from a Wal-Mart toilet that had been covered with some sort of adhesive.
Firefighters in Lebanon, Pa., freed a 31-year-old man who was wedged up to his waist in the hole of a portable toilet.
There is only one toilet aboard the International Space Space Station, and it’s not working.