In gauze country

Crud! After skating from the bus stop to GRHQ, I noticed that there was a bunch of gauze wrapped around an axle. WTF? I've seen tumbleweeds and shopping bags (urban tumbleweeds) in the grill of my car and toilet paper on the shoe of someone leaving the bathroom, but never this. This is like a combination of the two.

Luckily, there was no blood on it. That would have been nasty. Yes, I washed my hands after removing it/before eating.