Definitely An Inside Job

Jan 23, 2006
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Wed May 30,
TOKYO - A glittering bathtub made of gold worth nearly $1 million has been stolen from a resort hotel, an official said Wednesday.
A worker at Kominato Hotel Mikazuki in Kamogawa, south of Tokyo, notified police that the fancy tub was missing from the hotel's guest bathroom on the 10th floor, according to a local police official who only gave his surname, Ogawa.

The round tub, worth $987,000, is made of 18-karat gold and weighs 176 pounds.
The tub, flanked by two crane statues, has been a main feature of the hotel's shared bathroom. Visitors can take a dip in the tub, but it is only available a few hours a day "for security reasons," the hotel's Web site said.
Someone apparently cut the chain attached to the door of a small section of the bathroom where the bathtub was placed, but not riveted, and made off with the tub, Ogawa said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070530...ub_stolen_1;_ylt=AjWTR.AjOPkL3htZj4BBlooH1vAI

"We have no witness information and there are no video cameras," he said. "We have no idea who took it," the official said.
 
Definitely an inside job.

Not as elaborate or expensive. I remember employees at I.Magnins made off with a 6 foot tall Snoopy by stuffing it in a laundry or trash bin cart. They just rolled the doggy out down the service elevator. No one was ever catch the thieves.
 
Now thats luxury! Although I must admit I don't really like the look of it.

God knows how the thieves are going to sell it - it's going to be pretty obvious where it came from as it's not every day you see a golden bathtub.
 
Now thats luxury! Although I must admit I don't really like the look of it.

God knows how the thieves are going to sell it - it's going to be pretty obvious where it came from as it's not every day you see a golden bathtub.


I cant imagine that they would attempt to sell it as is.... more like melt it down or chop it up.
 
I cant imagine that they would attempt to sell it as is.... more like melt it down or chop it up.

That's very true, my brain wasn't thinking when I posted that before - I think I need to wake up! Of course they'd chop it up/melt it down - so stupid :shame:

All I could think of at the time were visions of a gold bathtub on Ebay lol.