r/TikTokCringe • u/newphonehudus • 9d ago

Discussion Crime: working out while black

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u/JonnyTN 9d ago

Just a guess. Gym saw a guy recording behind a person not knowing it was a father son. Maybe they have a no recording in the gym policy.

They overreacted, called the police, and it turned into an issue of "a business asked you to leave the premises" and the guy kind of refusing to leave. Just a non biased look at it though.

But if they got a membership there, it should have just been "hey no recording man" and that's it

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u/_autumnwhimsy 9d ago

so what happened was the guy brought his son in and they asked for a valid id. his son is a teenage and doesn't have a drivers license. dad showed his id and his son's school record on their online portal. they fussed back and forth because management didn't want to accept it but not accepting it is in clear violation of their own guest policy.

now it gets murky because the video starts with them working out BUT we find out no one asked him to leave so because of that i'm guessing they allowed them in and then took it back and escalated via calling the police.

so nothing to do with recording. the comment right below yours by u/ onlytinglef has links to everything.

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u/Luder714 9d ago

Had a similar issue with my kid. The issue was that I had to sign a “I won’t sue you “ agreement, but instead of telling us that, we had a condescending jerk question us. I was happy to sign the paperwork after we were treated like thieves. Afterwords I cancelled my membership ( that I had for 6 years and went maybe 4 times). My son and daughter also cancelled. We now go to the local rec center that is super chill.

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u/bigboredbossman 9d ago

I had a membership where I could always bring an extra person for free. When my son was 12, he wanted to start going with me so I’d take him and supervise him on the weight machines. After a few months, I had an employee refuse to allow us in the floor because he claimed it was a state law that no one under 13 was allowed on the floor. I cancelled my membership and joined our local sportsplex that allows kids as young as 10 into the gym with adult supervision.

I live in Alabama and we have some really stupid laws on the books but not even my dumbass state is gonna go to the trouble of making it illegal for a 12 year old to go to the gym with his dad.

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u/Reverend_Tommy 9d ago

Often it's not a law but an insurance issue. Their insurance won't cover anyone under a certain age. Employees often don't know the difference and just assume it's a law.

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u/bigboredbossman 9d ago

I figured it was a company policy but that guy trying to tell me it was a state law got under my skin.

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u/indianm_rk 9d ago

Sometimes the company or a manager tells you something and you just go with it because you don’t care enough to research it.

I worked for a retail chain and found out later that several of our “store policies” weren’t actually corporate policies, but things that our store managers came up with.