Blenheim Palace - £1m 18-carat solid gold toilet stolen.

[BlackLabel]

The thieves will be flush with cash if they can sell this on.


https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/blenheim-pal...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/09/14/blenhe...

[turbobloke]

Holy crap batman the thieves will be flushed with success as well as cash.

At least they can't keep a lid on it.

[eharding]

The Telegraph said:

Edward Spencer-Churchill, half-brother of the current Duke of Marlborough and founder of the Blenheim Art Foundation, told the Times last month: “Despite being born with a silver spoon in my mouth I have never had a st on a golden toilet, so I look forward to it."

Asked if he was worried about security, he said: "It’s not going to be the easiest thing to nick.

“Firstly, it’s plumbed in and secondly, a potential thief will have no idea who last used the toilet or what they ate. So no, I don’t plan to be guarding it.”

[Derek Smith]

Someone's in the s++t.

[dieselgrunt]

Police have nothing to go on.

[turbobloke]

The nickers came down to Blenheim's best loo because somehow they were privy to a golden nugget situation.

[Wiccan of Darkness]

I think the privy council should inform The Queen, this is serious.

Probably just mindless vandals raging against the latrine. If they can't recover it, they'll need a few nuggets to cast a new one.

In all honesty would have needed some serious kit to shift it, wonder if forensics are analysing the skid marks on the drive.

I could go on all afternoon with these ghastly puns

[PositronicRay]

The police are hoping for a stool pigeon.

[Busterbulldog]

All that money and its coupled up with a B&Q silver toilet roll holder.
Wonder if the thieves made off multiquick .

[ScotHill]

Word is they're off to Prince Andrew's for a golden shower.

[HOGEPH]

"Well my dear Watson, can you see the problem we have here?"

"No st Sherlock!"

[FourWheelDrift]

That'll be very heavy, it will go straight through the floor of their caravan.

[toastybase]

Good. Fair play to whoever took it.

What a ridiculous thing to make out of solid gold.

I hope it’s already melted down and the bullion sold on and it can be used to make something more worthy of the material.

[Brads67]

toastybase said:

Good. Fair play to whoever took it.

What a ridiculous thing to make out of solid gold.

I hope it’s already melted down and the bullion sold on and it can be used to make something more worthy of the material.

More worthy of the material ? lol you're kidding right?.

It's a metal, ffs.

Pretty stupid I admit, akin to that ecclestone fanny getting a solid crystal bathtub to wash her arse in, but unworthy of the metal ? get a life.

[petemurphy]

Shame was so going to have a go as it’s near me although not sure I could have timed my bowel movements that precisely! Surprised they left many more nick able items. Plenty nicer things to steal last week at salon prive!

[FourWheelDrift]

Quite a waiting time to use it when it was on show in America.



I should imagine there were a few explosions.

[poo at Paul's]

66 year old man arrested....?

Inside (big) job?

[Ayahuasca]

It takes the piss.

[PZR]

I heard David Lammy on LBC talking about this earlier today. Lammy was under the impression that it was an original fixture at Blenheim, that Winston Churchill would "certainly" have sat on it, and that it was an indication of the "privilege" that Churchill was born into.

Cretin.

[Gareth79]

petemurphy said:

Shame was so going to have a go as it’s near me although not sure I could have timed my bowel movements that precisely! Surprised they left many more nick able items. Plenty nicer things to steal last week at salon prive!

Selling a solid gold toilet is a lot easier than any of the other stuff. If it hasn't been recovered by now there's a good chance it has already been cut up and melted down.