[workerbee]

And let’s not forget the $25,000 toilet seats at the Pentagon (or wherever it was).

[pburiak]

I remember hearing a story that the “$25,000 toilets” and “$1,000 hammers” were just ways they tried to hide the costs for Black Ops/Area 51 type projects by burying large dollar amounts spread across smaller items.
Not sure how true that was but it was an interesting theory.