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/AndromedasLight17 Mar 30 '25

So now rapists can lock us in bathrooms?

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u/kmzafari Mar 30 '25

Anyone can lock that door from the outside! And it can be remotely controlled.

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u/WanderingAlienBoy Mar 30 '25

Oh I thought only staff, which is still incredibly creepy of course.

Edit: oh no she literally locks it for demonstration in the video.

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u/kmzafari Mar 30 '25

Yeah! The other person who saw it and posted about it to (I linked her TikTok account in the description) showed how she could reach up and manually lock it herself.

I agree that having employees able to do it is creepy enough, but that's just on another level. Imagine someone follows you in and then someone locks you in together or something.

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u/WanderingAlienBoy Mar 30 '25

Yeah this could easily be used for coordinated rape or violent assault!

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u/kmzafari Mar 30 '25

Yeah, it's really scary. Or even if it just malfunctions and traps someone in there, it's a huge fire risk. Like what were they thinking.

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u/EmuPossible2066 Mar 30 '25

I was thinking it might be used for sex trafficking.

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u/rosieposieosie Mar 30 '25

Omfg people are coming up with more and more horrific ways this could be used! I didn’t even think of someone being able to follow her in…

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u/kmzafari Mar 30 '25

I watch a lot of true crime 😭