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pencilvanian
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 Posted - 05/30/2007 : 16:09:23
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$1M Gold Tub Stolen From Hotel in Japan
The Associated Press
May 30, 2007
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.
'We have no witness information and there are no video cameras,' he said. 'We have no idea who took it,' the official said.
Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
I should have chosen "Cut-n-Paste" as a forum name, since that is what I do, mostly.
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Ardent Listener
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Posted - 05/30/2007 : 18:30:21
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What is with Japan? A few weeks back someone walked off with a huge gold bar from a museum over there that didn't have a security system.
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pencilvanian
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Posted - 05/30/2007 : 21:34:31
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How do you manage to move something That big and heavy and nobody notices?
Maybe Goldfinger wanted a hot tub?
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Tourney64
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Posted - 05/31/2007 : 16:59:57
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| It could have been reduced in size before ever leaving the building. 176 LB from the 10th floor. Maybe it's still on that floor, and will be cut at the leisure of the thief(s). Maybe it was dropped out a window to a waiting vehicle. Maybe the person who moved it had the slider pads. |
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Almost Like Robbing Fort Knox!!!
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