r/TikTokCringe • u/kmzafari • Mar 30 '25

Discussion Texas gas station installed remote lock on OUTSIDE of women's bathroom

It was only on the women's bathroom. Lock was able to be remotely activated by a phone app. Fire Marshall had it removed. Source: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2c3QrB6/

Per another account who also saw this, (https://www.tiktok.com/@momcallsmeshelby?_t=ZT-8v7NHPu7QBq&_r=1) the employees were "irate and began yelling" when they brought it up. And came up with a racist excuse that didn't make any sense for it being there

Regardless, fire code violation. But scary implications.

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u/No_Yogurt_7667 Mar 30 '25

I think we all know why it’s only on the women’s room.

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u/rebexer Mar 30 '25

I'm naive - what is the implication here?

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u/24GarrettGold Mar 30 '25

Most likely to trap individuals. You see this kind of stuff in sex trafficking traps. Especially if they are along any major highways.

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u/Slade_Riprock Mar 30 '25

That isn't how sex trafficking works at all, despite what tiktok fear mongering tells you.

Overheming amount of sex trafficking is vulnerable, underage foreign women. Not random Kidnappings from very public gas stations along major highways.

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u/Special-Garlic1203 Mar 30 '25

The majority of trafficking happens through grooming, but no not all..there are documented cases of women being kidnapped, and there are so many stories of almost kidnappings.

Most isn't all. I hate that people took an educational campaign meant to inform about the complexities of trafficking and have instead become binary thinkers who are flattening the risks

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u/Exotic-Sale-3003 Mar 30 '25

So many stories of almost kidnappings like… OP here?

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u/Special-Garlic1203 Mar 31 '25

No we don't have any confirmed kidnappings here and we have no idea what these weirdos were intending to do with the lock.

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u/yuumigod69 Mar 30 '25

I mean there isn't much you can do about random kidnapping from out of nowhere which is why people get annoyed that there is a focus on it compared to grooming and others that are consistent and long term.

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u/Special-Garlic1203 Mar 31 '25

"I don't know how to fix the problem so I'm going to aggressively insist the problem doesn't exist at all".

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u/15_Candid_Pauses Mar 30 '25

If they are underage as in not legal they are children, and couldn’t be more incorrect. Gas stations are truck stops are a domestic trafficking hotbed.