Two men found guilty in $6M golden toilet heist at English palace where Winston Churchill was born

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[dayglored]

> I knew a guy who had one of his toilets fitted out like a throne. It was pretty funny. It actually worked too.

Musician Todd Rundgren's estate on Kauai (Hawaii) has a house with a toilet built up like a throne. I had the opportunity to visit the place years ago and use it (it's fully functional, just a little weird, not unlike Todd).

[9YearLurker]

Churchill’s golden toilet? How Trump would love to have that!

[Rennes Templar]

Churchill was a great PM. Too bad he was never in line for the throne.

[Ezekiel]

They should also be tried for performing plumbing without a license. :^)

Snakes -- they thought they could slip away with it.

And stolen vehicles for the heist? Everyone knows the Range Rover is for kitchen appliances, what a bunch of amateurs.

🤣

Au-di was the way to go.

Michael Jones, 39, swiped the gleaming 18-karat-gold loo in under five minutes during a wild heist at Blenheim Palace in 2019 — then teamed up with Frederick Doe

Fail. If he'd only gone with *John* Doe, but alas, he was No. 2.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

So it was probably solid gold.

A toilet is made of about one half a cubic foot of ceramic or about 75 pounds.

A half a cubic foot of gold would be about 600 pounds.

It was plated.

[Savage Beast]

"The purloined potty has never been recovered but is believed to have been cut up and sold."

Probably not.

They probably installed it in an East London flat for their own personal use--and who could blame them?

[xxqqzz]

You are right, it was probably copper or something with gold plating. Still it must have contained a significant amount of gold, and as you imply a small amount could have a significant weight and value.

Someone must have had a lot of money to have a toilet like that put in. That is really money to burn. I think Churchill’s mother was American, and presumably very wealthy marrying a duke.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Jeanette Spencer-Churchill (mother of Winston Churchill) came with an impressive settlement to her marriage but most of it her husband ran through before his death at age 45, she did not marry a duke and had nothing to do with the toilet.

The person who married money for restoration of Blenheim Palace was the ninth Duke of Marlborough (cousin of Winston Churchill) who married Consuelo Vanderbilt.

[Savage Beast]

What a cruel heist! I imagine there are people at Blenheim Palace right now dancing around like Nureyev.

[FreedomPoster]

Looks like a standard floor mounted flush valve water closet that has been covered in thick gold leaf. If it were solid, it would require serious I-beam steel supporting structure. No way it is solid.

[roadcat]

I knew a guy who had one of his toilets fitted out like a throne. It was pretty funny. It actually worked too.

I did that in a former home I owned. I built a magazine rack into the side wall next to the toilet, complete with telephone, radio and TV. It was the highlight of open house weekend to sell the home, and we got lots of bidders based on large part due to the bathroom. Best investment ever.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

And, if it were solid gold, it would be worth $250 million. It’s obviously plated.

[GailA]

btt

[Alas Babylon!]

Nope. I had to go to the men’s tourist urinals. Standing room only!

[Savage Beast]

I thought that if you excused yourself to go to the powder room, it would be sitting right there—and who wouldn’t take advantage of an opportunity like that.