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Dumb and Dumber on YouTube

Who doesn't love to laugh at a crazy homemade video on YouTube: a cat doing the jig, a sportscaster making an embarrasing blunder, a young guy.... driving his forklift backwards on two wheels??!!

That's right, an Australian 20-year-old thought it would be a hoot to drive his hoon forklift at top speed backwards with the rear wheels off the ground, performing burnouts, and crashing into a concrete pipe...

That was dumb. Deadly dumb.

He then proudly loaded the video onto YouTube... no, really.

That was dumber still.

Anyone but unions listening to workplace safety statements?

Wise words from one of our favourite safety bloggers: Kevin Jones, of the SafetyatWork blog out of Australia, just wrote about "Safety, Whistleblowers and Media Disinterest." He blogged that he's discouraged by the lack of mainstream media coverage on government support of workplace safety, but understands the reason:

 

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