I wasn't a part of the prank, but I saw them set it up. Back when I worked at Canadian Tire one of the supervisors was also the head of the safety committee. Let me tell you, he took safety very seriously, as he should, but some would say that he took it too seriously.
Well my manager, and two other supervisors decided to play a prank on the safety guy one day. At our store, in the warehouse, we had two levels to the warehouse. All the smaller items went upstairs (on the mezzanine). To make it easier to get the items down the stairs to a cart a board was placed on the steps (it was rigged up on hinges so that it would just swing down to cover the steps, and would latch in the upright position when stock wasn't being slid down the ramp).
It was a big no-no to slide down the ramp, and the safety guy would right you up if he caught you doing it. Well they put the ramp in the down position. Put some boxes on a cart, and some boxes scattered on the floor. They used watered down ketchup and food coloring (to make it look less like ketchup) and covered one of the supervisors face with it and made a puddle of it on the ground. The supervisor laid next to the puddle like he was knocked out. The manager paged over the pa in a frantic voice for the safety guy to come to that part of the warehouse.
The safety guy comes running and sees the situation and was told that the supervisor was sliding down the ramp, fell and is knocked out... just as the safety guy is about to page a code blue over the pa the "knocked out" supervisor jumps up and yells APRIL FOOLS!
The safety guy didn't talk to them for a few weeks.
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