PSA: There's a gold toilet on the loose.
A fully functioning solid gold toilet, made by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, installed at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, September 2016.only got to enjoy its new home for a matter of days. By Saturday, in the early hours of around five in the morning, the toilet was ripped from its new home, ripping the bathroom's wood-paneled walls and causing a significant amount of flooding, seeing as it had already been hooked up to the palace's plumbing.
"At first, when they woke me up this morning with the news, I thought it was a prank: Who’s so stupid to steal a toilet?" Cattelan told the"I wish it was a prank," Cattelan continued, promising that he "has an alibi." "'America' was the one percent for the 99 percent, and I hope it still is. I want to be positive and think the robbery is a kind of Robin Hood-inspired action.
We may never know, but hopefully, we'll at least get an answer to arguably the most pressing question: Where, exactly, is the toilet? Unfortunately, it sounds like it may have, well, gone down the toilet. "That is a very, very valuable toilet," Peter Pienta, an expert precious metals dealer, stressed to the"If [the thieves] had a refinery or gold smelting equipment ready, it could be melted into gold bars in days and there would be no way to trace them.
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