I thought it was an unalloyed shitter.
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I’ve always heard that punchline as:
“Hey Bill!” Hillary yelled. “Dubya just pissed in your saxophone again!”
Interesting. If that’s a known issue, I’d imagine there’s a chemical solution (badump bump) to purify or hide it. Reminds me of this, but when they precipitated it out, don’t know if the contaminants would go along for the ride:
Could also electroplate it onto something? Lot of money at stake, would think they could afford some very nice chemistry equipment.
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I’m sure you could re-alloy it, then re-purify it, and end up with a different trace elemental “fingerprint”. Which means you’d have to know some chemistry (or have a rogue assayer/chemist/metallurgist) on your criminal team. The question is whether the crooks are smart enough to know that they can’t just melt and re-cast le toilette into bars for resale…
As far as the gold in solution, I bet it would defeat the “fingerprint” analysis too. That’s the same method that a lot of people use to refine gold from plated jewelry, electronics, etc… When I did it, I was able to take lower alloy gold and purify it to over 23.5k.
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I wonder if “Breaking Bad” has encouraged a new breed of would-be rogue chemists.
John McAfee’s issues started when he moved to Belize to make bath salts…
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Actually, there’s probably a ton of jewelers out there who could figure it out, I can think of three or four in my circle of friends smart enough to do it. Sell the toilet proceeds on Etsy in the form of thousands of chains.
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I only live a few miles away, but I only have a bog standard porcelain toilet.
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You are using the wrong ounce. Precious metals are measured in troy ounces
103 kg = 3311.527 troy ounces
3311.527 x $1490.55 = $4935996.57
and as @tuhu pointed out, it’s 18-karat gold, so it’s only 3/4 of that. We now get a price of about $3,702,000. As it’s a piece of art it will be worth more than that, if it is still intact.
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I’d posit that anyone with craft jewelry experience, any chem beyond rudimentary high school chem, or almost any metallurgical experience could figure it out. I was able to, so there’s that.
My argument would be that it’s a volume game. A toilet is a lot of mass. You’d be selling bars to move enough of it fast enough to split shares in your group that stole it. You’d need the capacity to refine/re-alloy larger amounts to be practical.
You could sell chains on etsy, but that’s a hell of a lot of chains to make, and a long term plan, not a quick turn around sort of thing.
Me, I’d use it. Pretend I was tRump. Make all sorts of bad decisions and ridiculous statements while pooping (which is how I imagine that most cabinet meetings in the current white house are held.).
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Exactly what a perfectly innocent person would say.
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I dunno, I just came here for the toilet humor.
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