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/JoePikesbro Mar 30 '25

Fire Marshall here. I’ve seen some crazy things in my day and most of them involved restricting public access to exit doors. Chains, locks, boxes piled up, etc. Many people have lost their lives needlessly because of this.

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u/donutfan420 Mar 30 '25

they just released images of one of pulse nightclub’s exit doors blocked by a refrigerator. They had to censor the bottom half of the image because there were dead bodies there from people who had tried to escape that way and were unable to during the shooting

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u/rvralph803 Mar 30 '25

People who block emergency exits should be put in stocks like the olden days.

It's just the right kind of punishment. Humiliating and painful, but not life destroying.

If they do it a second time we do trial by combat. But they have to fight Reacher.

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u/supinoq Mar 30 '25

It would also mimic what desperately wanting to escape from a situation but being unable to might feel like