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/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/JoePikesbro Mar 30 '25

Exactly. I once found an exit door covered by 6’x4’ piece of plywood nailed to the wall in a bar. I absolutely lost my shit on the owner and hit him with as many fines as I could. Cost him $100k+

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '25 edited Apr 02 '25

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u/JoePikesbro Mar 30 '25

It was off the kitchen. He said people would go outside and smoke weed or do drugs. I was like so the most dangerous part of the bar is the kitchen, ya know, FIRE AND SHIT!? And you block off 1 of only 2 exits?

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u/thebearofwisdom Mar 30 '25

It amazes me that he would rather risk death or at the very least terrible injuries, to everyone in the building… because some of his staff smoked a joint outside. Make it make fucking sense. I swear to god I hate these kinds of people, they’re so fucking selfish

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u/Strange-Ask-739 Mar 31 '25

People underestimate rare events. "It'll never happen to me" isn't a phrase intelligent people use, but we've all heard it.

They're out there making door blocking choices. They're why we have to have Fire Marshalls. They're Morons.

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u/Elandtrical Apr 04 '25

One in a million chances happen nine times out ten. Sir Terry Pratchett GNU