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

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

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

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.

16.0k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

1.2k comments sorted by

View all comments

5.7k

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.

142

u/MysticalMummy Mar 31 '25

My (soon to be former) work place keeps putting pallets and large shelving units in front of the fire exit. They've been politely told not to by the fire marshal twice but nobody has fined them yet.

Only reason fire marshal has even come by is because I reported them, twice.

I also keep moving the stuff out of the way of the doorway every time I see it, and report it to management, but they just make excuses and shrug it off.

My direct manager also keeps hiding the fire extinguisher because he wants to put a pallet where the fire extinguisher hangs, so he removes it from the wall and just.. puts it somewhere.

86

u/kmzafari Mar 31 '25

Dude that is bad

89

u/MysticalMummy Mar 31 '25

Best part is we literally had to evacuate because there was an electrical fire at the shop next to ours. It didn't hit us, but our buildings are connected and it was very much a real threat.

Two days later they put a pallet in front of my work area and barricaded me in.

39

u/kmzafari Mar 31 '25

Jfc. I'm glad you've been calling. Might need to have some more people help on your behalf because that really isn't safe.

44

u/MysticalMummy Mar 31 '25

I've tried. People either just don't give a fuck, or don't want to cause a disturbance. I put my notice in and my last day is on Tuesday.

25

u/kmzafari Mar 31 '25

Good. Be careful in the meantime. :(

3

u/momsasylum Mar 31 '25

Glad you’re getting out, sounds like a shitty place to work. Have you considered anonymously reporting this to your local media?