Never eat apples on Halloween.

We had a pretty amazing display of stupidity at work this morning.  It would seem that last night the forklift normally used by the yard cleanup guys was down with a flat tire, so they used our warehouse machine until the tire was repaired this morning.  Well once in a while the cleanup guys have need for a utility knife, and they keep it on the forklift.  Except it would seem that these guys don't use a knife like the rest of us, they just keep a full length razor blade duct taped to the front post of the cage.  And sometime during the night they decided to adapt the same ridiculous setup to our machine.  So one of my warehouse guys is using our forklift this morning to haul boxes over to the packaging area, and goes to hop off for whatever reason, grabs the front post and... why, what's this?  A 6 inch razor blade under his hand.  So lots of tissue paper, blood and a ride to the hospital for several stitches later... you get the picture.  And the best part?  After I pull the blade off our forklift, I go over to where the cleanup forklift is parked and remove a much older and rusty blade from the same spot.  Can people really be this stupid?  We keep a handful of perfectly good brand new utility knives in stock at all times, why would they prefer the danger of wielding a wide open razor blade?  And why would they leave it taped in a place where people typically grab onto while climbing in and out of the forklift?  It blows my mind when I think about some of the craziness that happens amongst the production population at my work.  This reminds me of a story I heard a while ago, about how our plant washrooms used to employ gas station style hand towels, you know, the ones that have a long roll of cloth in them that feeds back up in the back, and you pull on it to get a fresh patch for drying your hands on?  At any rate, I guess there was a day when the stall ran out of toilet paper, and the last person to discover this wasn't willing to pull his pants up long enough to go find some... you can imagine what happened next.  And just how quickly those towels got replaced with paper dispensers.