It happens every year: the annual race among reporters to find weird things the federal government lost or had stolen once the year’s Public Accounts are tabled in Parliament.

Along with the usual spate of lost BlackBerries and iPads, vandalism and vehicular damage, there are always oddities. Here are a few:

Flood damage at a campground ultimately cost Parks Canada $2.2 million. Someone also stole about $1,000 worth of gravel from the department.

Global Affairs claimed $1.7 million in lost revenue from “inflated” invoices by “suppliers and employees” from 2004 to 2016. The department says it resulted in “appropriate corrective actions,” including the “dismissal of employees.”

The department also saw a $2,000 watch – a gift to the Crown in 2012 – stolen from them. The department doesn’t know what the make of the watch was and isn’t sure who donated it.

Research equipment worth $30,000 was stolen from the National Research Council, although it’s expecting to recover it eventually.

Agriculture and Agri-food Canada had one case reported of stolen taxi chits that cost $8,597 (which the department got back).

And Industry Canada lost a refrigerator.

Fire damage is another routine item: A blaze at the High Commission of Canada to Malaysia cost taxpayers $123,000.

Over at Correctional Services, more than 11 fires set intentionally cost $393,095. And even the House of Commons recorded two separate cases of “furniture and equipment” loss from fires that broke out in constituency offices, totalling $57,483, while $27,993 was recovered through insurance claims.

Another oddity buried deep in the Accounts, part of a million dollar building contract for Correctional Services, is the “enlargement of peepholes in the cell doors at Archambault Institution, Sainte-Anne-des Plaines, Quebec.”

Last year, the list included damaged art in the House of Commons and a sewer backup at the Canadian Space Agency.