[craigster59]

I've told this story before, but here we go again.

I was working on a film where we were building a big laboratory that was going to eventually get destroyed at the end of the film. That meant we either needed to purchase everything (as opposed to renting) or get the items through product placement.

We had a contact through Olympus to get some microscopes and the local rep told us about some older lab equipment that he had gotten out of UCLA when he sold them a bunch of microscopes and lab equipment. He had it at a facility up in Santa Clarita and was tired of paying storage fees for the last 5 years and would sell it to us cheap if we would empty the unit and take everything.

Well, we get up there and the storage unit was crammed with stuff. We start going through it and we're rolling stuff out and there's these large stainless steel containers, looked like a horizontal locker on wheels.

We've got some small tabletop stuff, meters , centrifuges, etc so one of the guys gets the bright idea to transport the small stuff in one of these lockers.

To make a long story short, he opens the locker and there's a dead woman inside! Not just any dead woman, an old cadaver from their gross anatomy lab. We called the police, coroner and UCLA and they got down there and whisked her away.

I later found out that they eventually gave her a decent send off after all those years. I also found out that I would never donate my body to science.