Kitchen Rat hears its all cisterns go at Manchester’s Etrop Grange hotel where boss Chris Falcus has declared a Loo Chain Amnesty.
Has former Chelsea defender and Portsmouth FC acquisition Glen Johnson - famously caught attempting to steal a toilet seat from a Kent B&Q - been to stay recently, I hear you ask?
Well, no, but apparently other guests can’t get enough of the 18th century grade-two listed Georgian hotel’s classic loo chains (and you thought the odd pair of slippers going missing was a headache).
What started as an amusing trickle has now become a full flush of theft – in Falcus’s own words – so the general manager has come up with the amnesty in the hope that guests may return a few of the not inexpensive cast iron chains.
Falcus is also keen to poo-poo guests removing the vintage chains as they are mounted high up on the toilet cistern and he fears it only a matter of time before there’s an accident.
“I shudder to think of what could happen if a guest slipped and fell to the floor,” said Falcus.
Indeed. After all it’s the sort of crap you simply don’t want to deal with as a manager day to day.