Alabama’s massive online surplus property auction: Prison bus, Nerf guns, laptops up for grabs

From serious work to child’s play, a state agency has dozens of items for sale as part of an online surplus auction.

Bidding is underway and runs through 6 p.m. on Nov. 24 for everything from a prison bus to Nerf toys owned by the state that Alabama no longer needs.

Aside from acquiring industrial equipment and vehicles for state agencies, the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs, whose Surplus Property Division is conducting the auction, takes possession of items abandoned at several airports in the southeast.

As of late Monday night, the highest bid was $4,550 for a lot of dozens of laptops, followed by a 2012 Ford F-450 SD ($4,050), $3,250 for a 2020 Southern Star pontoon boat with trailer and motor and $2,725 for a 2012 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD.