Not all that bizarre but:
Many moons ago I was sat in the audience at a BEM presentation ceremony. One of the gongs went to a Chf Tech rigger who lived in the Turks & Caicos Islands. Every so often the customs officers would confiscate a drug smuggler's aircraft, and his job was to inspect/repair/maintain these random aircraft as they were soon put back into service by customs and used to catch the next drug runner.