A video report about the theft of a pretty much unguarded gold bathtub that had been stolen from a hotel in Chiba Prefecture:

A bathtub made of gold, worth 120m yen ($1m; £500,000), has disappeared from a Japanese resort hotel in circumstances that remain unclear, police said.

Staff reported the tub was missing on Wednesday at the Kominato Hotel Mikazuki, a resort overlooking the Pacific Ocean, east of Tokyo.

Police said they had no idea how it was stolen, saying they had found no sign it was dragged on the floor.

The tub weighed 80kg (175lb) and was made of 18-carat gold.

It was normally chained to the door and padlocked when the room was closed, Japanese TV reported.

“The door to the room had been locked with chains, but the chains were found cut off this morning,” a police spokesman said.

I guess the hotel didn’t pay much attention to the recent incident in Gifu Prefecture, in which a similar poorly-protected golden item was stolen. If you’ve got a million dollars of gold in your building, hire some security, folks!