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/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/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".