We have some great "I've got something you don't have" entries from property professionals attending the I.A.P.E. Property Management class held recently in Burbank, CA. A number of Departments took advantage of the "multiple person" rate to send more than one person to the Burbank class, and some of those had some great entries, but our winner this issue is from Washington State.

Body parts were big in the Burbank Class.  A human head is held by Property Room Technician George Jewett, of the Mountain View Police Department.  Property Officer Dianne Tubandt, Yuba County Sheriff's Department, has a testicle in her property room, and there is a human eyebrow in the Twin Peaks Station property room of Sheriff s Service Specialist William Stubbs, of the San Bernardino County Sheriff s Department.

Property Evidence Specialists William Swanson and Robert Routley, and Lieutenant Jim Ferraris, represented the Portland (OR) Police Bureau in the class.  Their somber entry is one which we hope will never be repeated: an identification tag from Auschwitz.

Two agencies have prostheses in their property rooms.  Senior Officer David Sanford, Lieutenant Michael Gwaltney and Inspector Robert Lein represented the Huntington Park Police Department, and their property room is home to a pair of breast implants.  Marian Stephens and Viola Balbinot represented Santa Barbara Sheriff s Department, and their property room has a wooden leg as evidence.

The winner for this issue was submitted in a letter from Sergeant Steven A. McKeen, of Milton, Washington, but he had to violate the rule of booking currency separately from other types of property to do it.  It seems that an alert officer from Milton Police Department observed a pickup truck pulled off the road behind some bushes in a remote area.  The man nearby, who was armed with a big axe, couldn't come up with a good enough story to explain why he was trying to chop down the ATM machine that was in the bed of his truck.  The man ended up in people jail, and the ATM, with thousands of dollars in cash still safely inside, ended up in property jail (Sergeant McKeen's property room).  Thanks for sharing, and keep those cards and letters (and e-mails) coming.