Janet Bastin, internal auditor for the Butler County controller, goes through 34 boxes of birth control pills sent mistakenly to Ben Holland in the Butler County controller's office.

The county controller's office received a special delivery Monday meant to prevent special deliveries.

Controller Ben Holland said he had been in the commissioners' offices when he returned to his office at the county government building to find his co-worker, internal auditor Janet Bastin, going through a sizable box with a perplexed expression on her face.

A quick peek inside the box revealed 34 boxes of birth control pills, which Holland knew were not ordered by anyone at the county.

Holland, the father of a 4-month-old, took a pregnant pause.

“I thought, if this is someone's unkind way to suggest that my wife and I don't procreate, they're too late,” Holland said.

Bastin contacted the company that appeared on the packing paperwork, Smith Medical Partners of Illinois, and was told the pills were meant to go to a health department in Butler County, Mo.

A full story appears in the Butler Eagle.