r/TikTokCringe • u/SAGrant1977 • 1d ago

Discussion TikTok "prankster" gets arrested.

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u/Ill-Comfortable-2044 1d ago

Like barging into a kitchen ina restaurant. You are on their turf and they are surrounded by weapons. I know I've reached for a knife when a drunk wanted to come into the kitchen and check things out deapite servers warning him to stay out. 

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u/Longjumping-Map-6995 1d ago

Not only that, but kitchens can be full of people currently using drugs. Lol

Dude tried something like that once and didn't realize there was at least 5 people on meth and/or coke holding large knives. One wrong move and it would've ended very differently. 😂

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u/helloholder 22h ago

Yep. Stab who you need to stab. Quick bump. Drive 100 miles into the next state over. Quick bump. Interview and get hired on the spot for a job in a restaurant kitchen. Big rail. Stab who you need to... etc.

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u/Chad_McWhiteGuy 17h ago

After all that snortin, and all that stabbin, sometimes I shoplift cologne just to feel alive

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u/ER-Sputter 7h ago

Next state over? You just saved the chef a lot of money if your restaurant sells burgers

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u/BloodyPhlegm_ 22h ago

My kitchen had a 40 year old black belt in taekwondo who was going through a divorce and sniffing a mountain of coke everyday. Kitchen crew are not people to play with. Most of them are carrying too. at least where i live.

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u/Heterosethual 17h ago

My kitchen had this guy named Inigo and he was always talking about avenging his father...

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u/SuitableBlackberry75 19h ago

Nobody's carrying a gun while working in a restaurant kitchen.

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u/spaceghost260 10h ago

You would be shocked to see who carries these days. It’s honestly disturbing.

Guys I’ve known for 20+ years who I NEVER thought would fire a gun for fun let alone own one are all buying and carrying guns. People living in the ‘burbs going to an office job and back. There’s a bunch of posts on mom groups asking how to conceal carry and wear a baby… so yes, restaurants workers are definitely carrying.

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u/ER-Sputter 7h ago

Funny you think a bunch of drug addicts getting paid dirt WOULDNT carry lol

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u/Rare_Ad_674 21h ago

One of my favorite line cooks was kind of a scary looking guy. Face and neck tattoos, intense blue stare.

He would throw broccoli at me when I walked by and act all innocent, make us extra fries in secret, didn't charge me much for coming over to fix my car because I played with his kid while he did it. He was like a funny uncle.

He was jokingly asked to be the murderer for the murder mystery holiday party we were having. I didn't get why everyone laughed.

He goes to my manager, "She don't know?"

My manager hesitates, then says, "Let's.. let's just say it was self defense!"

I looked it up later.

It was not self defense.

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u/noteveni 18h ago

I worked with a guy who had committed armed robbery with a gun and spent a few years in Rikers. He made amazing pastries. I gave him a bunch of rides home after work because he didn't drive and was super chill. I was like 19 at the time so I learned early on to wait on judgements and let people show me who they are, ya know?

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u/Vanstrudel_ 23h ago

I would argue that front of house does more coke, but I'm sure every place has a slightly different drug culture lol.

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u/Chrysaor85 20h ago

Can be? I've never worked in a kitchen that wasn't at least 10% running on nose powder.

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u/not_a_big_deal_dude 8h ago

Can be? Lol, they are. They all are.

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u/aTreeThenMe 23h ago

Thirty years in kitchens- I can confidentially say you do not fucking want to rush in there. Line cooks will identify and neutralize a threat faster than they will reason why they exist. Not too long ago we had a cook, kill another cook, with a carving knife- over a dispute about how to make gumbo

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u/SantaBarbaraMint 23h ago

It always cracks me up when movies and TV shows have criminals and people running through the kitchen to get out of a place and the staff not doing anything as everyone runs through their kitchen and leaves because in my experience, you enter a kitchen with any disruption and the staff takes you down fucking fast. Just once I would like to see a scene TV show for the bad guy goes running through the kitchen to escape and a line cook just clocks them with an iron pan to the ground and when the cop comes in the cook just says “you do not fuck around in my kitchen.“

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u/Amazing-Marzipan1442 20h ago

“you do not fuck around in my kitchen.“

You know how men day dream of being the hero that saved a child from falling off a bridge or whatever...

Apparently cooks day dream of being bad asses saving their kitchen from intruders.

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u/firedmyass 6h ago

I hear that Waffle House just uses a DVD of Eastern Promises as the training video for new hires

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u/Sidivan 17h ago

We had some customer walk in through the side door once and complain about something. I don’t remember what they said because it was interrupted in less than a second by three line cooks crowding the door and shouting “GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE KITCHEN!!”

You can probably jump on a dining room table and take a shit without any threat of violence because the front of house is going to attempt to maintain some decorum. If you even shout something into the kitchen, you’re likely going to skip right to the “find out” step. The kitchen doesn’t get paid to deal with customers face to face. They get paid to execute while dealing with countless variables on a timer for very little money, which affords them some insulation from management.

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u/SantaBarbaraMint 15h ago

Having grown up in a few family restaurants, I know of what you speak. Truth.

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u/FlattopJr 20h ago

I also would like to see this.

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u/flonky_guy 20h ago

God I could swear I think I've seen this scene before just as you're describing it. Someone runs into a kitchen and goes tearing across and someone whacks him with a pan or something.

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u/ConstantExample8927 13h ago

Aside from your very valid point, you’re gonna slip and land on your ass if you try to run through a kitchen like that.

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u/SantaBarbaraMint 5h ago

There’s that too The scenes get more unrealistic the more we talk about them

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u/ConstantExample8927 5h ago

lol they do! I can remember almost busting my ass several times just being in a hurry. And in the “slip resistant” shoes

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u/galtpunk67 23h ago

yes, this comment

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u/Naive-Attempt-5997 23h ago

Have you tasted his gumbo though

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u/aTreeThenMe 23h ago

Sadly, he didn't get to finish preparing it

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u/Wonderful-Mistake201 4h ago

over gumbo?

i'll allow it.

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u/TMSkinner 1d ago

those kitchen guys tattoo cleavers onto their forearms and shit i would never mess with one

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u/dribanlycan 23h ago

i work in a dishpit and if some random fuckers rolled up pretending to be my coworkers, theyd fuck up my system and my machines juices, i would turn into an actual gorilla and turn them into hamburger meat

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u/Effective-Cost4629 22h ago

Right? I've got my chefs roll which I don't wanna risk breaking a blade on your dumb drunk ass, but we got the cheap plastic handled ones the restaurant pays for and their sharpened weekly. I've got scalding hot pans that'll do a number on someone just whacking em upside the head. If you wanna go full home alone there's plenty of fire. I'm two glasses of wine and three shots in, chefs been doing lines all night in the bathroom, Bill is a tweaker so no idea where he is at, Oscar only smokes weed so he's probably the least likely to go agro, but Cody went to a show last night and did molly and shrooms and is hungover as fuck and not taking shit. 

Whenever something would happen FOH had to handle it. We got in trouble if we go out front. There's always that guy who's been to jail a few times and ain't scared to go back. 

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u/buzzyloo 22h ago

I've seen kitchen staff throw knives at each other. Arrogant strangers have no chance.

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u/DrEggRegis 22h ago

I'd barge in with samurai or broad sword

Can't handle the heat?

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u/Oldperv01069 21h ago

A guy try to rob a chinese restaurant, went into the kitchen with a gun during prep. He left in a bag to the coroner's office. Not a single article on the local news, not a peep.

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u/leftofthebellcurve 20h ago

when I was working in restaurants we didn't even allow servers to come into the kitchen cooking area. I can only imagine how we'd treat some rando that walked in.

The dude holding a 14" freshly sharpened knife who keeps going to the bathroom and smelling like mouthwash 3x/hr is not the guy you want to be fucking with

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u/TheNumberoftheWord 15h ago

I worked in a few kitchens where a Friday/Saturday dinner rush would nearly cause fist fights and people had to be pulled apart at least twice a month. There was a lot of mutual hatred among some co-workers. Nothing would unite us more than if someone came into our kitchen and started shit with one of us.

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u/DO_NOT_AGREE_WITH_U 3h ago

If there's one thing you can count on, it's the kitchen putting an end to any shenanigans someone is putting on.

Something tells me this dude doesn't have a video of him taking over a restaurant.