Battery Licking...No really, battery licking!

[HawaiianShirts]

He opened a pack of batteries with his teeth?!
Okay...
1- I've worked retail. I've seen the condition of the delivery trucks. I've seen the people (employees and customers) who handle the products before I buy them. Someone would have to pay me a rather hefty sum of cash to get me to put something into my mouth straight from a retail shelf.
2- He couldn't find scissors? A knife? Heck, I've opened some packages with the fingernail clippers on my keyring. All of those things are better suited to the job than my teeth!

At least we know the batteries are (were?) fully charged...

That's not battery acid, that's JACK Acid.

[Jay 2K Winger]

So... someone who licked a battery ended up getting burned.

I'm shocked. Really.

[dendawg]

Was this guy wearing bunny ears and banging a bass drum by any chance?

[Caractacus_Potts]

I'm too paranoid of breaking my teeth, so a stubborn package will get a knife. I'd rather julienne my fingers than get plastic shards or chemicals in my mouth.

I use scissors. Keeps my teeth and my fingers safe!

[BeenThereDoneThat]

My husband opens packages with his teeth. I just don't get it. I use scissors, or for more problematic packages there is always a box cutter or one of these handy dandy gadgets: http://www.vat19.com/dvds/openit-pla...ing-opener.cfm

[PepperElf]

Well, in his defense, some packages can be insanely difficult, if not impossible, to open otherwise.

Yeah but aren't knives and scissors sharper than teeth?

I have to admit that if a product's packaging is giving me some trouble, I might use my teeth. But never, never, if it contains something hazardous like batteries/battery acid or any other such thing.

This. I admit I'm tempted to use my teeth to open the dish-washer pellet wrappers cos sometimes they're bitchy to open ... but I never do cos I don't want that shit in my mouth.

[Aims]

(If it was someone is getting written up!) That being said, anyone who had ever seen what a truck looks like when it arrives at the store would be shocked at the condition of some of the merchandise. You will see things like cases of rat poison sitting on top of cosmetics! The people at the DC are focused on speed, case size, and the weight of the truck, and very little else. Once upon a time I had a picture of a shovel that had actually pierced through an LCD tv. It came off our truck like that. It isn't unrealistic that something nasty was all over the outside of that package when he bought it.

I know exactly what you mean! My ex works in grocery, and normally unloads the big truck when he's there. About half of the pallets are falling over, and have to be re-stacked.