$1M Bathtub Stolen from Hotel TOKYO, May 30--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 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. 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. "We have no witness information and there are no video cameras," he said. "We have no idea who took it," the official said.
I wonder if the thieves are going to melt it down or if they're crazy enough to try to sell that tub intact.
Too bad people object to being filmed when taking a bath... otherwise there would have atleast been a video camera
Who knows,the thieves may end up sailing away down the river in the bathtub.It would make a great boat,that is,if there is a way to permanently block the plug-hole. Aidan.
