Re: This local council paid HOW MUCH for an SD card?!
Those $500 hammers where infact yer bog standard mild steel jobbies.
It's an accounting "trick" where a purchase doesn't have line item costs, so x different items for $y total means each item gets marked as having a cost of y/x.
The infamous invoice for this had, in addition to the large numbers of tools, a jet engine on it. Which was *also* valued at $500.
While "government is dumb" and procurement is full of bollocks (see many other posts) this is one of those oft repeated stories that actually make sense (as much as accounting ever does) when you look into the details.
I can bore you to death with how it was McDonalds fault for serving coffee too hot and other such stuff. But snopes usually do it better than me :)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
