Theft of the year: 230 liters of gin stolen from the bottom of a Swiss lake (3 photos)
Alcohol was infused at the bottom of Lake Constance for 100 days, and when it's time to raise it to the surface, it turned out that gin bye-bye. Disappeared.
The Swiss company Ginial invented an unusual way making gin. For three years, the manufacturer annually places alcohol to the bottom of Lake Constance in a special steel bowl. There the drink matures for about 100 days and acquires an incomparable aroma.
Perhaps this is a common marketing ploy, but the genie willingly buy and love. What's more, the entire party that was being prepared for Christmas (395 bottles, wait a minute!), already reserved, and paid for prepayment. But this is background. And the story is this: when it's time to get gin from the bottom of the lake, it turned out that the ball with alcohol was not there. Divers examined most of the bottom of the reservoir and also found nothing. discovered.
Ginial CEO Sello Fish suggests the thieves were real professionals. And in social networks that learned about the tragedy Ginial, suggest that the culprits should be sought in the company itself. The place where the ball was lowered changes every year and is known only to a narrow circle of people. The date of laying alcohol in the lake is also never advertised - It means that someone was informed about all this. The total weight of the cargo is about one ton: a ball with alcohol weighs 800 kg, plus the weight of concrete platform on which it is fixed at the bottom of the reservoir. Raise on surface this structure from a depth of 23 meters without special equipment is simply not possible.
To find a valuable loss, the police are connected, but for now the company ready to bear reputational losses, because someone will be spoiled Christmas...