Rumor from the set of Apocalypto

Seen on Mel's Megafans (March 25): A crew member (Apocalypto) has related [to] us the following episode. "Mel Gibson often comes to the set wearing odd socks. You can see this very plainly because more often than not he has forgotten to remove his cycle clips from the bottom of his trousers. Lunch break is at a quarter past twelve. Having no idea of the passage of time he continues working until long after twelve thirty. When this happens we become restless and sneeze and cough to catch his attention. One day we decided to bring an alarm clock each and set them to go off at a quarter past twelve. But nothing happened. He was too absor[b]ed in thought to notice the noise, and we never got around to repeating the experiment. It was one of the funniest episodes in my life." Like everything posted on Mel's Megafans, the story should probably be taken with a grain of salt (this one, however, sounds fairly believable).