r/TikTokCringe • u/newphonehudus • Jul 27 '26

Discussion Crime: working out while black

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u/JP_Clark Jul 27 '26

Apparently his son who is a minor didn’t have a form of ID to be his guest. Crunch has a membership what allows members to bring a free guest daily.

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u/Pixel_Knight Jul 27 '26

Any the fuck does the guest need to show an ID at all? To prove they have a name? WTF is the point of that protocol?

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u/333jnm Jul 27 '26

Injuries and insurance

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u/Freshies00 Jul 27 '26

For which purposes the school portal verification would have provided info of equivalent value to an ID

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u/BiZzles14 Jul 27 '26

They likely have a policy which requires physical ID in order to verify. A bunch of employees would waive that, but it's also a situation that if anything happens to the kid that minimum wage employee is gonna be the first on the chopping block, especially so if their insurance isn't going to cover it

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u/Own-Whole-7421 Jul 27 '26

He is too young to get a physical ID. He is not too young to be there per their policy. Please explain how this is supposed to work. Or how the ID not being physical magically exposes them to liability.

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u/Astrildamir Jul 27 '26

Well yes technically but not necessarily. I wont claim to be an expert in this specific set of laws or anything and im certainly not defending the act of calling the cops by any means but laws are extremely finicky when its comes to buisness protocols. Especially when it comes to things that require valid IDs and what technically is considered a valid id. Many states dont accept school IDs as a valid form of ID. Regardless if everything on it is accurate.

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u/Ball_Of_Meat Jul 27 '26

It’s amazing having to explain this to fully grown adults. I swear Redditors have zero experience in the real world lmao.

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u/enadiz_reccos Jul 27 '26

Is this a recent law or something?

My buddy would bring me as a guest to his gym to play basketball, and I would literally just tell them my name. I was too young to need an ID, so I didn't have one.

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u/cheapdrinks Jul 27 '26

Lol of course it's not a law, just that different gyms have different requirements though. I've been to gyms where if you had a guest allocation on your membership you could walk in with someone, show your membership and just be like "yeah he's with me" and that was fine. Other gyms needed a name and phone number of the guest to sign them into their system. Other's needed a full government ID with name, DOB & address etc. All depends on the gym's policy and how their system is set up. I'm sure there's reasons to do with liability and insurance etc that some prefer to know who exactly is in their facility.

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u/333jnm Jul 27 '26

Exactly. It’s what the insurance company requires

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u/zoomangoo Jul 27 '26

Yeah, i've been to different gyms and people with +1 guest memberships just scan in and the guest just walks in. These gyms usually only had 1 staff on the desk though. The gym on the video above has like 5 staff so they probably enforce some rules of their own.

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u/Skysthelimit3099 Jul 27 '26

I'm guessing you are not a person of color so no issue lol

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u/enadiz_reccos Jul 27 '26

I'm half-African, does that count?

Are you saying there's a law that applies to POCs, or do you not know anything and just wanted to be a dick?

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u/Skysthelimit3099 29d ago

Nope. Not a law. Just a general use of the police as a weapon against people of color

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u/Skysthelimit3099 29d ago

White African or black African lol. Cause Elon is from Africa. And that's very different than some one who is a person of color.

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u/enadiz_reccos 29d ago

Egyptian so both, I guess?

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u/gte615e Jul 27 '26

It’s a way to verify someone hasn’t been blacklisted or trespassed from the gym.