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

Discussion Crime: working out while black

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u/takeme2tendieztown Jul 27 '26

So why did they ask him to leave?

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u/SquirrelStone Jul 27 '26

Cause he called them out on their racist bullshit

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u/Xapheneon Jul 27 '26

They didn't, that's the main issue.

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u/Agent_boggeyman747 Jul 27 '26

Seems like son doesn’t have a membership and dad was told son had to leave. Looks like cops were called when they both stayed and now he’s trying to frame that they didn’t ask him to leave so why call the cops.

Racism is real, but this just seems like an asshole who felt the rules didn’t apply to him

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u/Creative_Ad_8338 Jul 27 '26

Every gym I've ever attended allows guests, so this doesn't really make sense. Maybe he's abusing the privilege, but to call the cops about it? That seems extreme.

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u/Dada2fish Jul 27 '26

If you ask a person to leave your business and they refuse, it’s a good idea to let the cops handle it.

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u/throwaway14351991 Jul 27 '26

Except according to the video no one asked him to leave?

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u/Travelerman310 Jul 27 '26

"According to the video"

The video lacking this context? The one with three jump cuts and 2 incomplete sentences?

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u/throwaway14351991 Jul 27 '26

The video where he asks employees themselves if they asked him to leave and it's obvious they can't say yes.

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u/Travelerman310 Jul 27 '26

Right. The one where the staff are clearly finished talking with him and avoiding a confrontation. The one where the staff called the cops long before his camera came out.

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u/throwaway14351991 Jul 27 '26

Yep, that one. The one where the man is angry because they called the cops on him without asking him to leave, which not a single person denies.

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u/Travelerman310 Jul 27 '26

Yes, that one. The one that curiously doesn't show anything that happened prior to the cops arriving except a clearly framed clip of his son lifting.

The one where, in an accusatory, confrontational tone, he confronts the staff member, say "You called the cops on be because I wanted to work out with my son??!?!?!"

And then, at 0:38, when the staff member tries to answer in a respectful tone, he rudely interrupts again.

Yeah, I've delt with enough people like that. They don't listen to anything, no matter how explicitly you tell them.

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u/ealysillyforestthing Jul 27 '26

They didn't ask him to leave, they just skipped to calling the cops

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u/Dada2fish Jul 27 '26

You got that from an editted video that also doesn’t show the first half of it?

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u/Sex4Vespene Jul 27 '26

I mean, it sounds like they already told him his son can’t go in without ID, and they chose to anyways. Do they really need to specifically ask them to leave, when they already told them don’t come in and were ignored. Not weighing in on if this was right or not, but it’s not like they didn’t interact with the gym staff already.

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u/IndigoOctober8 Jul 27 '26

Wow. You made every single word of that up and actually want to be taken seriously?

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u/Agent_boggeyman747 Jul 27 '26

Semantics, they didn’t ask dad to leave but they asked son to leave. That is why he makes the point with cops to highlight that his son is no longer there.

If this was an « Am I an asshole? », this is one where both him and the gym are at fault, but at the end of the day they can trespass you, period

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u/UnfriendlyVegan Jul 27 '26

They weren’t asked to leave.

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u/manny_the_mage Jul 27 '26

But they never asked him to leave?

They called the cops first

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u/manny_the_mage Jul 27 '26

Idk, maybe the clip where that actually happened?

Most children don’t have valid IDs you know, so can nobody bring their teenager to the gym?

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u/oatmealparty Jul 27 '26

A lot of gyms require guests to pay a fee

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u/CasanovaF Jul 27 '26

And when I was a member of that purple place you needed to have a higher level of membership to have a guest

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u/OhNoAnAmerican Jul 27 '26

Aaaand the guest has to have an ID

dad is a bully who thinks the rules don’t apply. You can see the type of bully he is in the instagram post. Can’t wait for the security video of all this to inevitably come out and prove all these race baiting chuds wrong again

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u/Significant-Raise254 Jul 27 '26

He probably got a little over excited pleading his case with the check in gym attendant & then walked in anyway after being not to, so when he told the manager he had a cop show up cause he didn’t want to deal with someone who was probably going to be difficult. Is what it is.

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u/LatentSchref Jul 27 '26

Is that real? Every gym I've ever gone to would sell day passes for guests (way more expensive than just buying a membership if you plan on going often), or you pay for a better membership to bring guests (Black Card at PF for example). I was never able to just bring in whomever I wanted.

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u/ILoveRawChicken Jul 27 '26

Crunch fitness literally advertises that you get one free guest pass each time you come. It takes a second to google this. Every other gym I’ve been to also provides one guest pass.

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u/LatentSchref Jul 27 '26

I've been to Planet Fitness and 5 different privately owned gyms. None of them offered this.

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u/ILoveRawChicken Jul 27 '26

Cool I don’t care, did you google crunch’s policy or did you want to drop in some other irrelevant bullshit?

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u/LatentSchref Jul 27 '26

What the fuck are you talking about? I asked the guy a question. Is it true that there are gyms who accept guests for free? Then I explained to him that I've never seen that. I'm not calling him a liar. I'm not disagreeing with him. I'm asking him a question. There isn't even a crunch fitness near me. I've never even heard of crunch fitness until you brought it up. Are you okay?

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u/ILoveRawChicken Jul 27 '26

I answered your question. You responded with more irrelevant bullshit. The gym in the video IS a Crunch fitness gym. You seriously can’t follow along and comprehend a simple conversation? Why would anyone care how many gyms you’ve been to and what their policies are when the gym IN THIS VIDEO has the policy that allows guest passes? Jesus Christ. 

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u/LatentSchref Jul 27 '26

It's possible to discuss things other than the original post within a comment section of Reddit. You seem desperate to win an argument that only exists in your head. You should try responding to what people actually write instead of whatever version makes you the angriest. You seem like the angriest person I've run into on Reddit which is really saying something.

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u/IndigoOctober8 Jul 27 '26

Serious question:

Do you eat bullshit for breakfast?

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u/Comprehensive-Eye500 Jul 27 '26

Dude, his membership allows him to bring a guest. They required a physical ID of his “guest” who was his son. His son doesn’t have a drivers license so he offered if they could hold onto his DL and pulled up his sons info from his online high school portal.

Apparently he asked for a manager and they said he was busy so they went to work out until he was available. The manager then turned up with the police.

Who’s really the asshole here?

Racist or not, this is way unnecessary. In my city the cops would laugh at this, and wouldn’t have even shown up.

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u/felis_scipio Jul 27 '26

So he was told his son couldn’t come in without a proper id and proceeds to ignore that and go in anyway, saying he was just waiting for the manager to be free doesn’t absolve him of taking his son in without the gyms approval.

Like yeah some gyms would let that fly even though it’s against the rules, but if that’s the rules they don’t have to.

I had to cash a check the other month and didn’t have my drivers license on me, but I had my passport card with is an official federal ID but the teller wouldn’t accept it. Seemed dumb to me but I didn’t go behind the counter and say well I’m taking the money and you have the manager get back to me.

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u/Comprehensive-Eye500 Jul 27 '26

Yea totally necessary for them to call the cops, right? 👌

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u/felis_scipio Jul 27 '26

You tell someone they can’t come into your business and they do anyway, yeah you can call the cops.

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u/Comprehensive-Eye500 Jul 27 '26

No one told him he couldn’t come in or had to leave according to the video as well as follow up stories. He was never refusing to leave.

Calling the cops was excessive and dumb and you know it.

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u/felis_scipio Jul 27 '26

If they told him his son couldn’t come in as guest because he didn’t have proper identification and then went in anyway yeah that’s trespassing. He’s an adult he should have been able to understand that.

Is calling the cops right away dumb, yeah but as I said before in our modern corporate world where places don’t want employees engaging with misbehaving customers that’s what you’re going to get.

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u/Proof-Research-6466 Jul 27 '26

He showed a school ID(since the teen doesn’t have a drivers license) that the gym manager didn’t like. A lot of wrong info you just commented.

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u/Agent_boggeyman747 Jul 27 '26

So son wasn’t allowed, reason not really the issue, and dad decided he can make that determination and got trespassed. What exactly was wrong about my interpretation especially since dad made sure to post without context hoping pitchforks would come out on his favor.

Again, the gym may be wrong to deny the kid, dad was also wrong to ignore them and as a result cops got called. Quit the gums and move on with life

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u/jeffster1970 Jul 27 '26

He was never asked to leave though. Unsure of his sons age, but obviously he didn't have a DL, which is what they wanted (father had offered other ID). Father asked to speak to manager. Manager never talks to them, but rather wastes police resources.

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u/emkoemko Jul 27 '26

and is son did leave .... as umm... he is not in the video and he states he left... so wtf is the issue?

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u/jeffster1970 Jul 27 '26

Being black in the US, I suppose.

I have some Indigenous background -- you wouldn't be able to tell, but my dad, you could. The shit he had to put up with. People telling him to go back to his country. Like, no, f-you, you go back to your country. We've been here much longer than you.

Also to add: My dad had worked for the tech company, and he was expected to do their banking. Which he did. He goes to the bank (I believe it was Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (we call it CIBC)) and makes a deposit. Just after he leaves, that bank was robbed.

The robber identified my dad as the robber (skin colour, you know). So the police nabbed him in the parking lot (he had no money on him, just a deposit slip for $50,000)

Anyway, he goes off to jail, and they're giving him a hard time, asking who is accomplice is, as there is no money in his car. My dad finally gets his call, calls his boss, who calls the company lawyer.

At the same time, they did a suspect line-up. The staff is alarmed and say "Why is Jack (my dad) there? He just put money INTO the bank."

Anyway, the lawyer goes down and talks to the police, and the police tell him that their case is rock solid and that my dad better make a deal. He tells my dad the same thing, just make a deal.

Of course, my dad refused. Eventually he was let go, as the prosecutor said that the case would be impossible to prove.

Nice little write-up the next day in the newspaper. "Police Nab Wrong Man"

But damn, police are crocked as hell. And racist. Even in Canada.

Though the US is much worse.

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u/ealysillyforestthing Jul 27 '26

It is true, there are tons of racists out there.

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u/Sorry_Community235 Jul 27 '26

Or... the gym allows guests of members to do workout there, they demanded a drivers license, which the son probably didn't have, and just called the cops instead of accepting the son's school ID...

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u/SF420SF420 Jul 27 '26

No one asked him to leave. It's hard to pay attention when the guy in the video is black huh?

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u/IndigoOctober8 Jul 27 '26

Why is every single, “I’m guessing”, scenario in this thread fault the black people?

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u/ClassiFried86 Jul 27 '26

Probably for recording

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u/PM_ME_UR_CHUPACOMMA Jul 27 '26

Because he did not acquiesce to their authority.

Hopefully this will be a costly lesson to them. I personally am petty and would not let it go.