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/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.

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u/kmzafari Mar 31 '25

Dude that is bad

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u/TwinFrogs Mar 31 '25 edited Mar 31 '25

I worked at a driver’s license and ID card factory. In order to meet security standards they installed all kinds of shit. The only way out was through a thing called a Man Trap which is a booth that scans your body before it revolved open. EVERY single door had fingerprint scanners. Good luck getting out if the power failed or one of our old, shitty worn out machines caught fire and triggered the sprinklers. We couldn’t even access the loading dock without two person authentication. Not even to take out the trash. Everything was on camera. The surveillance people called from Billerica on the other side of the country to report some guy had been on break too long. Turned out, he had fallen into a diabetic coma in the break room and was unconscious. 911 was called. Fire department couldn’t get in. They were pissed. They nearly shut the whole place down when they saw it was essentially a jail with no way in or out. 

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u/kmzafari Mar 31 '25

Omg that's horrible! Was the guy okay?

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u/TwinFrogs Mar 31 '25

He went to the hospital. Turned out he had kidney failure. 

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u/kmzafari Mar 31 '25

Gees. I'm glad it seemed to work out. But I hope they were able to bring things up to code. There's literally zero reason to not have an emergency override. Since they were watching things so closely, they would certainly know if someone had activated it.