Sometimes an iPhone is worth every penny.
A group of Muscovites reportedly hauled (тащить) an entire bathtub full of coins Tuesday to one of Moscow’s 38 official retailers to purchase (покупать) the desired gadget.
A Facebook user posted a photograph of the cast iron bath filled to the brim with coins and surrounded by onlookers armed with smartphones filming the clerk count the change.
Early on Wednesday, an Instagram video appeared showing a group of friends filling the bath with coins, loading it into a car and bringing it to the Evropeisky Mall in central Moscow.
At least two scuffles (потасовка) broke out with security guards before the group managed to carry the 350-kilogram bath into the store, according to the video posted by blogger Svyatoslav Kovalenko.
A spokeswoman for the store wrote that the 100,000 rubles (roughly $1,500) in coins were enough to get the buyer an iPhone XS.
