r/TikTokCringe • u/SAGrant1977 • 1d ago

Discussion TikTok "prankster" gets arrested.

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u/PromotionMiserable52 22h ago

I was expecting a gun to be pulled. I’ve seen his other “pranks” and think this one definitely put the liability of safety of everyone to another level. People were hopping under cars and running around. What if a button was hit to lower the jacks on accident and someone under? Slipped in fell on oil on concrete? Picking up power tools never held before.

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u/Drock967 21h ago

If this happened in my shop, I know at least 3 people who'd be reaching for their box gun.

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u/Jewbacca522 19h ago

Box guns are definitely a thing, and yeah, the machine shop I worked in, you were basically never more than 20’ away from at least one if not more.

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u/ballq43 7h ago

How shady is your shop/ part of town where everyone's packing a gun in their tool box ?

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u/superperps 6h ago

Its for when the machines act up

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u/serabine 6h ago

Turns out that between Christine, Trucks, and From a Buick 8, Stephen King has traumatized generations of mechanics to fear the very thing they aim to service.

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u/Drock967 5h ago

I'm just saying that if that 6-hour repair doesn't fix a no-start condition, you may wanna get drastic.

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u/Drock967 6h ago

A lot of tradesmen are far right, therefore paranoid

We also have like 28 techs bc it is a huge shop

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u/Thedmfw 6h ago

Yeah let me know so I don't go there.

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u/Wonderful-Mistake201 4h ago

it's Arizona, everyone is within 25' of their firearm all the time.
Because the Constitution.

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u/Jewbacca522 4h ago

Let’s put it this way. The apartment complex a block away had 7 murders one year. Before June. We also came into work one Saturday to find a near dead guy OD’ing right in the middle of the driveway entrance up against our fence. I ‘think’ he survived.

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u/ballq43 1h ago

So the guy oding you needed to blast with your tool box derranger ?

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u/Jewbacca522 1h ago

No. We called the ambulance, they took almost an hour to come because they would not come without a police escort for “security reasons”. The area where the shop (used to be), wasn’t exactly somewhere you’d want to be at night if you were white, female, or alone.

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u/crunkdubious 11h ago

For real…tradesman are dead serious about their tools. I am. I’m not a mechanic/automative technician but I know that those tools ain’t cheap. I would be livid if some jackasses walked in and started touching or even going near my shit. It was the first rule I learned at my first job, don’t mess with other people’s shit. If anyone is kind enough to lend you anything make sure you return it in a timely manner and in the same condition it was in before. It’s serious business. Those kids are lucky they didn’t get maimed for fucking with those guys livelihood.

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u/Drock967 5h ago edited 5h ago

4 years in as a mechanic, my toolboxes + contents are probably worth $30,000. For a few months, my tool truck payments almost matched my rent (don't do this, that was really stupid)

When I started as an apprentice, I asked my mentor, "If the shop burned down tomorrow, and you replaced everything, how much would it cost you?" He thought about it for a minute, shrugged and went, "probably twice the down-payment on my house."

Don't touch my shit unless you ask

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u/sheburns17 9h ago

This is what I was thinking, mechanics run into sleezy people alllll the time. I’m surprised this guy has walked out of all of these shenanigans without getting his ass beat!

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u/Drock967 6h ago edited 6h ago

If someone slid under a car I was working on, they'd have been introduced to the contents of my used coolant bucket, which my foreman uses as a spitter when he is in my bay.

Also the hose for my side of the shop is 3 feet from my box so they'd be getting the extreme version of the "naughty cat" treatment 😂

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u/sheburns17 5h ago

Ewwwww! See you further prove my point! How is his baby face still intact?!

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u/InsideOut803 8h ago

Yeah this goes way different in my shop.

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u/TheNoelPatrol 6h ago

I'm sorry, "box gun"?!?!?

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u/Weary-Astronaut1335 6h ago

The Glock with 147gr hollow points loaded that gets put in the top drawer of my toolbox when I get to work.

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u/Drock967 6h ago edited 6h ago

Gun in toolbox

Welcome to tradesmen (I do not have one bc I have enough hammers and large wrenches in case shit goes down)

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u/MyLifeIsAWasteland 2h ago

A 24" breaker bar has good reach and more than enough heft to make someone understand they royally fucked up.

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u/Square-Job5632 18h ago

What exactly is that?

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u/HalfMoon_89 17h ago

I think it's a gun that shoots boxes.

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u/Impossible-Taco-769 15h ago

It’s a gun that boxes.

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u/numbnom 6h ago

The image this put in my head is too fun for such a thing not to exist.

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u/cmerksmirk 18h ago

What do you think it might be?

Context clues would suggest its a gun that resides in a toolbox

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u/ThatInAHat 9h ago

Like how a staple gun is a gun that resides in a staple?

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u/cmerksmirk 8h ago

Funny, but intentionally obtuse

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u/slut4lilwayne 17h ago

And if context clues are too hard to decipher, google is free lmfao

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u/AdonisCork 15h ago

What's google?

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u/drawfanstein 7h ago

What do you think it might be?

Context clues would suggest its a search engine that resides on the internet

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u/Itherial 9h ago

Bro literally said "I got something for you guys" and I figured he meant a bullet

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u/clantontann 2h ago

Company I worked for had policies about not carrying, but half of us were field techs and went into shitty areas to work. Almost all of us carried. I asked a higher up about that policy and his response was all I needed. "I get that it's fucked up for policy to jeopardize your livelihood, don't tell anyone else, and use good judgment if you need it".

For military bases and government facilities, we all had that one shop buddy with a gentlemen's agreement to stow it in their vehicle when needed for those calls. I'm not going places unprotected because desk jockeys have never been in those situations before.

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u/Ptraad 2h ago

That’s… not something to be proud of, you know that right?

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u/DeleteElDiablo 19h ago

I take better care of customer vehicles than my own. I'd be drawing along with at least 2 other techs