Earlier this year there was an IAPE Property Management Class in Burbank (CA). Here are the winners of the "I've Got Something You Don't have" contest from that class:

CSO Michelle Allee from the Stanislaus County Sheriff's has had a human placenta stored for the past 10 years. Multi-Service Officer Gail Cole from the Hollister Police Department has a hog's head. Shasta County Sheriff's Service Officer Jana Herman has a spear made from a deer antler. Legal Staff Supervisor Jo Mills from the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office has a 100 lb. boulder. Tuolumne County Sheriff's Clerk Rita Brown has a headstone from a cemetery. Inventory Manager Desiree Romero from the Ventura County Sheriff's Department has a human zygote. (So you won't have to look it up, a zygote is, in sexual reproduction, a cell formed by the fusion of the male and female sex cells before the fused cell begins to divide and become an embryo.

Next we have a quick summary of some items in older classes. Frequently we have some great items that don't make the list because of some REALLLY great items in the same classes. Here are some "honorable mentions."

Boynton Beach Police Department Evidence Custodian William Mann reported in the Tallahassee (FL) class that he had a "do rag." In the same class, Jesse Galindo reported that the Plant City Police Department had three tree trunks. How appropriate!

Wenatchee Police Department Property and Evidence Officer Christina Erwert reported in the Bellevue (WA) class that she has dog feces in her property room, presumably as evidence. The Knoxville (TN) class featured Sullivan County Sheriff's Evidence Quartermaster Sheila Lowry, who maintains poisoned meatballs in her property room. Also in that class was Cape Gerardeau (MO) Police Detective Joseph Tado, who has a stuffed monkey with an animated male sex organ.

Finally, the Las Vegas (NY) class featured Bexar County (TX) Sheriff's Sergeant James Hancock, who states his property room has an Indian headdress and an artificial leg. Hopefully they are from different cases. San Marcos (TX) Police Property Officer Alison Tudor has a Burger King Whopper in her property room, and Peoria (AZ) Police Assistant Debbie Shaw is the proud custodian of200 collectible talking Taco Bell Chihuahuas.

The winner? I was about to give up. Perhaps all the years had made me jaded, but I was looking for something like kryptonite. Then I saw it. An old crumpled Daily News (L.A., CA) newspaper clipping. It didn't have a date, but it did have an ad for the opening of "The Lost World: Jurassic Park," in case there are any trivia buffs out there.

The article by Jaxon Van Derbeken was headlined "Tall troubles for big collector" and described a warehouse raid and federal theft charges against Paul Tobeler. The items that were seized "filled two government warehouses" and "some was left behind because of the sheer mass."

FBI agents had expected to seize millions of dollars worth of Caterpillar tractors and other monster-size earth-moving equipment. They also / found airplane parts, lawn jockeys, a museum-size mineral collection, electroshock therapy equipment, vintage ice boxes and a canvas device used by firefighters to catch people jumping from burning buildings. Also found were jackhammers, pipe threaders, pool tables, Geiger counters, a windmill powered electric generator, 200 pounds of sterling silver service sets, 200 Persian rugs, mine detectors, arcade games, grenades, artillery pieces and a black and white cat (live).

The FBI said that it was their biggest confiscation by volume ever in Los Angeles, and possibly in the nation. To the FBI goes our winner's recognition this issue. They have in their property room ... everything!