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$1 Million Golden Tub Disappears

May 30, 2007 at 4:32 PM | 0 Comments

A hotel in Japan is very very sorry today. Sorry that they ever allowed a bathtub made of 18 karat gold and worth nearly $1 million to sit in one of their shared bathrooms for men unguarded and unprotected, thus allowing some clever thieves to haul it out of the place.

The golden tub weighing 176 pounds (pictured above in 2005) was stolen from the 10th floor of the Kominato Hotel Mikazuki in Kamogawa, just south of Tokyo:

But police said they found no signs that the heavy bathtub had been dragged out of the hotel. "The door to the room had been locked with chains, but the chains were found cut off this morning," a police spokesman said. "We really don't know how this happened at this stage. But what we can assume now is that more than one person was involved in this incident." A similar bathtub in the hotel's shared bathroom for women is still in place, he said.

Perhaps they were inspired by the Today Show's segment last week on Hotel Theft which included a story of a stolen marble fireplace from the Four Seasons Beverly Wilshire Hotel.

Related Stories:
· $1M Gold Bathtub Stolen From Japan Hotel [Forbes]
· Light-fingered Japanese thieves nab 80kg gold tub [Washington Post]