Pennsylvania woman fights cancer using... purple toilets

If you find a toilet on your lawn, you can pay $10 to get rid of it – or $20 to have it sent to a friend.

A PENNSYLVANIA WOMAN is using purple toilets to raise money to fight cancer.

The Express-Times reports that Rebecca Szabo-Silfies and her two young sons have been leaving the commodes on lawns around Upper Nazareth Township as part of the ‘Flush Out Cancer’ effort.

She stakes out a home, leaves a toilet and then waits for the homeowner to find it.

The person can then pay $10 to have it taken away, $20 to send it to a friend or $30 to send it to a friend and guarantee it never comes back.

The two purple toilets have made 18 stops so far, raising $400.

Szabo-Silfies says she found the idea on the Internet.

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