The average police evidence room has seen some seriously WTF things (14 GIFs)

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Cop here.

A dash for an early 90s Honda Civic. It wasn’t bagged. It was brought in as is.
– u/DeterminedLogic99

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Definitely the improv spear from last week. Guy shanked his brother in law with a kitchen knife duct taped to a 1.5 metre long wooden pole… which also had razorblades embedded in it, cuz why not?

I was like, do I wrap this in paper bags before stuffing it into the boot of the car? Do I try to disassemble it and then bag the pieces individually? What am I supposed to do with an improvised spear? How do I even log this on the computer? Why wasn’t regular stabbing enough for this guy? What possessed him to go with “shish kebab” as his murder method of choice?
– u/pocketn3rd

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Im not a cop but me and a friend got caught with 3 bongs in his car once. One was about 6in one was about a foot tall and the 3rd was about 4 feet tall. The biggest one they put in a bag, then put a bag over the top and it still had about a foot in the middle un covered. Was quite comical to see them lined up on the trunk.
– u/2slowforanewname

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Shopping cart overfilled with items. Trash bagged the top to keep items in place, On night shift, late at night had trainee hold onto cart out of the passenger window and slow rolled to department, swapped between that and him pushing it while I followed behind him both with back emergency lights on.
– u/Sportmotor

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I was an evidence clerk for a few years. Each morning, myself and the evidence officer would go though the night’s submissions to enter them in the computer with their matching case number. Mostly, it was small bags of drugs, some found property like purses or wallets, and occasionally larger items like bicycles. Also the blood draws from DUIs that needed to go to the crime lab. Once even dozens of stolen pairs of DC shoes.

The funniest story is this. The morning was too busy with other stuff, so we waited til around lunchtime to start the logins. The evidence officer was eating his lunch, and had piled in all the bags on his desk, ready for me. I began entering as he called out each item, case #, etc.
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He picked up one item, opened it up, and immediately jumped out of his chair screaming. I jumped up and ran, too. When an officer runs, run!

He was super angry, and went stomping down the hall to the sergeant’s office. I tagged along and learned that item was a large dildo – recovered from inside a male arrestee. That man had apparently been driving along, when he was stopped for an infraction. He was acting nervous, so the arresting officer had him exit the vehicle for a search. This item was discovered protruding from his backside.

Lesson: Double bag and use a Biohazard sticker, people!
– u/WallflowersAreCool2

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I got sent a phone from a car crash once, whoever had bagged it had been considerate enough to include a part of (who I assume was) the owner. They also forgot the biohazard stickers.
– u/PM_me_your_arse

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Since my girlfriend refuses to get a reddit account she’s asked me to post these:

-There was the big bag of pornography with a suspiciously stained towel

-There was the (loaded!) Gun with the safety off (how the dpp lost its firearm license a few years before I started) (We’re Australian btw)

-There were the weirdly sticky love crayon artworks a 15 year old made for her 25 year old boyfriend

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I had a historical record of seized evidence from a robbery and it had a bunch of dildos on it. I have no idea if they were stealing the dildos, using the dildos in the robbery or just had them there for some reason

-One of the lawyers had a case involving low level steroid dealing and the police had confiscated a penis-pump but labeled it as a bong. Dude was happy to plead guilty to the bong…
– u/Zaldarr

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I work in digital forensics. Biggest WTF one we probably got was a cell phone that had been through a fire. Opened the property bag to get the phone out and… well, you know in vampire movies how you stake a vampire and the body just falls and disintegrates into a pile of ash? Yea, something like that. We were literally like “WTF are we supposed to do with this?”

Also probably the only time we literally had to sweep for evidence in a digital crime lab.
– u/kalnaren

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Had a collision on the road. No injuries but a couple cars were undrivable. What caused this accident, you ask? A spare tire. Someone was driving along and suddenly the old rusted bolts holding the spare to the underside snapped, dropping the tire into the middle of the road. Never got a good description of the car. Never found the car. Not even on cameras.
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Technically it was considered a hit and run. So I, the newest guy was left with the task of tagging and figuring out what to do with this tire. Property wouldn’t take it because, and I quote, “we don’t take anything automotive.” Sarge had no idea what to do with it. So I took it to the evidence impound lot. The clerk took pity on my and let me store it there.
– u/copnonymous

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Called to a Rape. Victim with complex mental health issues stated that she had preserved the evidence. Arrived at scene and the victim had shaved every hair on her body and bagged it herself in individual bags depending where on her body it had come from and labelled the bags with the location it had come from on her body.

E.g. Eyebrows, armpits etc.

Sgt. Insisted we had to book it into evidence.
– u/Dedwards95

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A guy asked us for his shirt back from evidence, after he admitted it was his jizz rag.
– u/awake30

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