Ladies and Gentlemen, gather around, and let me tell you about the crime of the century. While the trial is just starting now, let me take you back to a day that lives in infamy, back in 2019.
A traveling toilet that has been on display from the Guggenheim to the Blenheim Palace, where Winston Churchill was born, was stolen in a daring raid that lasted less than five minutes back in September 2019. Now this was no ordinary toilet. No, the value did not come from famous people using it to defecate, nor did it even have a bidet to my knowledge. Seriously, if you have never used a bidet please try it and change your life.
The toilet was plated in 18-carat gold, weighed over 215 pounds, was insured for $6 million with the value of the gold at the time of the robbery being a touch under $3 million… Insurance fraud??
Three men are on trial for the burglary, one thief, and two others are accused of helping chop it up and sell it.
They smashed a window, ripped out the toilet which resulted in a ton of water damage to the historical estate, and drove it away in stolen cars before chopping it up and selling it.
Wild story, British criminals are just different.
H/T BBC