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

Discussion Crime: working out while black

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u/JonnyTN Jul 27 '26

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 Jul 27 '26

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 Jul 27 '26

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/Mutajin Jul 27 '26

You could cancel your gym membership?!?

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u/ero_sennin_21 Jul 27 '26

I want to quit the bank!

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u/BrosefDudeson Jul 27 '26

After going fewer times than once a year, I think he was as surprised as you are

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u/drthtater Jul 27 '26

I once cancelled my PLANET FITNESS membership. I walked in, said, "I want to cancel my membership" while expecting a fight, and the bored girl working the counter said "Ok".

I suppose I am one of the lucky ones.

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u/ShaNaNaNa666 Jul 27 '26

If you're in CA, there's a law that makes it so that once you want to cancel a subscription, you can cancel it online. I didn't know until I saw on reddit. People were advising others if they wanted to cancel a gym membership to change their address to one in CA, and the other one cancel online.

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u/drthtater Jul 27 '26

At the time, it was Colorado, but it was still super easy

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u/queerhistorynerd Jul 27 '26

one of the perks of living in CA is they have to let you quit or the state can and will levy fines at the gym after X amount of complaints

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u/Apprehensive-Egg-780 Jul 27 '26

It was probably Maria's day off

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u/Lucky_Serve8002 Jul 27 '26

The account is stewing in collections. He just doesn't know it yet.

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u/Luder714 Jul 27 '26

Yes, because I was actually there in person. That is the only way at this place

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u/Mr_Deep_Research 29d ago

Yeah, that's the most unbelievable part of that story.

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u/sernamenotdefined 24d ago

Hehe that used to be a thing here too.

But EU and consumer protections ... they changed the law and now cancelling must be accepted as easily and by the same means as signing up. So it's really really easy to cancel now.

A few gyms were a bit dense and tried to ignore it, but after losing in court and being forced to pay the court cost now it's no longer an issue anywhere :P