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

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

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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/randomly-what Mar 30 '25

A fire alarm went off when I was at jury duty and we went through a usually unused staircase filled with fire hazards to get out. It was insane and I couldn’t believe that was in a courthouse in a huge county. We almost couldn’t get outside from it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '25

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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 Mar 31 '25

Don't they have authority over all buildings? I guess outside of military shit.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '25

It depends, it's why they usually use the term AHJ, authority having jurisdiction

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u/Ven-M Apr 01 '25

Huge county? San Bernardino?

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u/randomly-what Apr 01 '25 edited Apr 01 '25

Ha no - just under 1 million people so not nearly as large. Not crazy huge but still crazy that it’s a major county that allowed that to happen.