Solid gold toilet stolen from Britain's Blenheim Palace

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The fully-functioning toilet, dubbed America, was created by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan and estimated to be worth around R18-million.

In this file photo taken on September 15, 2016, a fully functioning solid gold toilet, made by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, is going into public use at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.LONDON - A gang of thieves on Saturday stole an 18-carat gold toilet from Britain's Blenheim Palace, police said, causing flooding that damaged the world-famous stately home.was created by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan and estimated to be worth around £1 million .

Visitors were able to book time slots to use it -- but only for three minutes each, to limit the queues. "The piece of art that has been stolen is a high-value toilet made out of gold that was on display at the palace," she said. The duke's brother, Edward Spencer-Churchill, who founded the Blenheim Art Foundation, said last month he was relaxed about security around the gold toilet."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."

 

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Who cares

Pay back from colonialisation. Who gives a fck. They must just sell it at a cheap price at the black markert

🤣

Good👌

I hope they already melted that shit

It's coming home

What’s a gold toilet seet being manufactured in the first place!!

Good**

People risk their lives underground here in Africa and underpaid. British build toilet with it.. A clear sign of inconsiderate humans..

Kkkkk

Good news

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Gold looted in Africa

😀😀

how much does it cost to take a sh**t there?

How do you shit on gold

Do they have a gold mine in Britain Thieves got thieved

Like these people s$t in gold? Ngampela?

Zama zamas would love something like this.

Gold from Africa for African and south Africans

I wonder where Britain stole that gold that made the toilet from?

Bayalayeka.

Good...it was waste of gold...

I hope the thieves bring the stole gold back to Africa whrer it belongs

Wa nyowa nou... A whole gold toilet

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂nase nkandla likhona

Ncncnc

very good bring it home

Major_General_J banyile 😆

We careless

So they've been shitting on our Gold all this time.

Can't blame them though

I called it affirmative repossession, as the gold was firstly stolen in Africa.

Why does anyone need a solid gold toilet in the first place? Makhooa ho phapha.

Crime

People are looking for jobs whilst others are creating gold toilets to be stolen. Mxxm

Didn't know there's nyaope boys in Britain

y nt share that money with poor toilet eish

I hope it’s an African who took that vele it’s ours

It will be found in a scrap yard

Pray for the University of Zululand Unizulu 😭💔

I guess it got dumped?

Daai is n kak pot of gold

So they stole gold from Africa, made a toilet out of it and someone stole it from them?😂

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