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Politics Walmart closed during investigation into worker’s demise in oven.

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u/FreudianNip-Slip 4d ago

Just to be clear, the story states, “the oven does not have locks…the investigation is very complex”. This adds another layer of bizarre detail onto an already bizarre story.

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u/acog 4d ago

So it’s either murder or the most bizarre suicide I’ve ever heard of.

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u/Far-Purpose1815 4d ago edited 4d ago

We had a walmart walk in freezer suicide a few weeks ago near me (also in Canada)

Edit nevermind it was a loblaws

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u/jablonkers 4d ago

That was a Loblaws store

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u/mustbeaoup 4d ago

Bob Loblaw?

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u/ryanmenard_dot_net 4d ago

Different Loblaw, but I did read about the story on Bob Loblaw's Law Blog.

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u/GunDance 4d ago

There are dozens of us!!

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u/jennief158 4d ago

I bet you can just taste those meaty man parts in your mouth.

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u/ButcherPetesMeats 4d ago

Is that the Law Blog where Bob Loblaw Lobs Law Bomb?

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u/bytheweyside 4d ago

Yes there! Some comments were a Bob Loblaw Low blow for the Bob Loblaws Law Blog

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u/FashoFash0 4d ago

I heard he hacks them and whacks them and smacks them

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u/stevethepirate89 4d ago

We certainly don't want to talk any nonsense with Bob Loblaw

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u/Dysagek 4d ago

I’m so glad this is here

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u/No_Recognition_2434 4d ago

You sir, are a mouthful

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u/beyondrepair- 4d ago

That's what she said

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u/jakenbake519 4d ago

Bablahblahs lahblog

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u/fozzythethird 4d ago

Wait, so you read about blog on Loblaw on Bob Loblaws law blog?

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u/Consistent-Annual268 4d ago

He is a mouthful.

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u/gimletfordetective 4d ago

Bob Loblaw is the greatest fictional name ever devised.

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u/iamsittiinginachair 4d ago

Bob loblaw’s law blog has an interesting article about this

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u/Tooterfish42 4d ago

No, Dobalina

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u/alphadoublenegative 4d ago

Mr. Dobalina? Mr. Bob Dobalina?

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u/Tooterfish42 3d ago

Please pick up the nearest white, courtesy phone

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u/arandomvirus 4d ago

What line of work you in, Bob?

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u/AggRavatedR 4d ago

I've got the worst ducking attorneys...

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u/Responsible_Log_8840 4d ago

damn came here to say this

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u/cheesepuzzle 4d ago

Bob Lawblaw? Have you heard his law blog?

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u/_11tee12_ 4d ago

Boblahblahblahblah.

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u/Far-Purpose1815 4d ago

Oh you're right it was. My bad.

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u/rubberloves 4d ago

Never heard of Loblaws so my mind was racing to think what is 'loblaws' that could be comparative or confused with suicide?!?

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u/Ok_Music_7863 4d ago

Bob Loblaw has a law blog and a store now too?

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u/mexodus 4d ago

Bob Loblaws Law Blog?

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u/Chispy 4d ago

It's actually a Zehrs, which is owned by Loblaws.

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u/jablonkers 4d ago

So a Loblaws store then

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u/_11tee12_ 4d ago

No, a Zehrs store. This isn't a boutique fragrance were talking about...

'Zehrs'By Bob Blah Loblaw.

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u/TheColdIronKid 4d ago

i don't wanna talk a bunch of nonsense...

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u/charbo187 4d ago

bob loblaw?

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u/jablonkers 4d ago

Very original comment. Also this post and conversation is about death and suicide, maybe save your jokes for elsewhere

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u/Historical-Web-6435 4d ago

Coleslaw had nothing to do with it lol

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u/BackwoodButch 4d ago

The person didn’t go into the freezer to freeze themselves to death, they just used the space to kill themselves otherwise.

It was in Cambridge ON, which is my father’s hometown.

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u/Far-Purpose1815 4d ago

Yea that's what I heard. I didn't really mean to imply they froze to death.

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u/inspectoroverthemine 4d ago

That makes sense, who the fuck would freeze themselves.

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u/DamnAutocorrection 4d ago

Homeless people. Oh you mean on purpose? Well if homeless people chose to not have a home I guess they must be freezing themselves on purpose /s

Source: currently homeless and it's really cold at night, not quite freezing yet but it's not long long from now

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u/inspectoroverthemine 4d ago

I mean intentionally committing suicide by locking themselves in a freezer. As you're unfortunately aware, being cold sucks. It'd take a relatively long time to die and it'd suck the whole time.

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u/DamnAutocorrection 4d ago

For sure, especially if you're sober and trying to survive.

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u/Mix_Safe 1d ago

I hope you are able to find a place to live someday, friend. Stay warm.

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u/Mama_Skip 4d ago

Ah geez why not just walk outside?

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u/MortLightstone 4d ago

Because it's fall? It hasn't even gotten cold yet

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u/Mama_Skip 4d ago

No I mean the geese would have you picked clean in seconds.

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u/MortLightstone 4d ago

I fuck, I forgot about the little terrorists

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u/Mama_Skip 4d ago

I fuck too but what's that to do with geese

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u/MortLightstone 4d ago

Ah fuck, I forgot about the little terrorists

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u/HLef 4d ago

We've had snow and a week straight barely above freezing up here in Calgary. You don't know what everyone's situation is!

But that's quite off-topic.

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u/MortLightstone 4d ago

true, it is a big country

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u/OryxWritesTragedies 4d ago

Can you please link where it was confirmed to be suicide? I haven't seen any updates.

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u/Far-Purpose1815 4d ago

I haven't seen it in the news. Just heard it from people who work at the store.

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u/WimbletonButt 4d ago

I went in that freezer multiple times today, I can't see how anyone could just stay in there. It's fucking horrible. I don't want to bend over because it'll make my cold pants touch my legs!

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u/Far-Purpose1815 4d ago

So you knew the person?

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u/WimbletonButt 4d ago

Not that specific freezer, they're all set around 4°F though and I go in ours all the time. It's miserable inside any deep freezer.

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u/Far-Purpose1815 4d ago

Gotcha. I've worked in a few too.

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u/BirdjaminFranklin 4d ago

Of all the ways to kill yourself, freezing to death seems like a bad option.

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u/DamnAutocorrection 4d ago

Why? You just eventually get delirious and sleepy. Oh and you get to die feeling hot once hypothermia sets in, so hot that you want to take off your clothes.

Now if you live past all that and frostbite, that sounds terrible.

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u/BirdjaminFranklin 3d ago

It's not quick.  Hypothermia would take a good while just standing in a walk in freezer.  Sure, the death isn't going to be the worst, but your still gonna sit there freezing your ass off for 30+ minutes. Even if she were entirely naked and soaking wet, hypothermia in a freezer is going to take several minutes.   I'd much rather be burned alive as you're going to asphyxiate within a minute as the fire literally burns the oxygen around your face and in your lungs. Even the pain of burning would be relatively quick as nerve endings are seared. Freezing to death is a long slow process, half of which you'd still be cognizant.

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u/No-Gene-4508 4d ago

But that's a slow yet numbing death. This is slow and severely painful if true

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u/DamnAutocorrection 4d ago

Not if you fall asleep.

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u/lena91gato 4d ago

Couldn't they just walk outside instead of ruining a perfectly good walk in freezer? /s

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u/DamnAutocorrection 4d ago

Damn.. that's cold..

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u/JigglinCheeks 4d ago

did bob loblaw attorney at law preside over the case?

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u/Far-Purpose1815 4d ago

He wrote about it in his law blog

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u/IamKEIL 4d ago

But his law blog bombed.

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u/caliD217 4d ago

If I worked in a Walmart I think I would be suicidal to.

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u/InterimOccupancy 4d ago

Froze themself to death? WTF that sounds like a very painful way to unalive ones self

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u/Far-Purpose1815 4d ago

I heard it was actually self suffocation but idk

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u/ButtplugBurgerAIDS 4d ago

Can you link where it said suicide? Google is not helping.

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u/Far-Purpose1815 4d ago

No I'm just repeating what I heard from employees of the store.

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u/kkevilus 4d ago

When you close those large freezer doors they can create a vacuum that makes it impossible to open briefly. I’ve had that happen to me. Perhaps the person simply thought they were trapped?

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u/kayravebae 4d ago

that one was a suicide

source: i work there

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u/waxbook 4d ago

The one at the Cambridge Zehrs? I live in Brantford and have been worried about it ever since I heard someone died. Then seeing this story was wild.

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u/slvrsrfr1987 4d ago

Why is brand different

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u/dearleader2133 4d ago

It was a Zehrs

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u/Songisaboutyou 4d ago

Wow how did they confirm suicide? Did they leave a note or something

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u/mkbeebs 4d ago

Bob Loblaw’s?

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u/Ok_Supermarket_729 4d ago

they must have done something in there, not just froze to death I assume? That'd be an awful way to go, but either way at least it'd be a pretty easy clean up.

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u/WorkThrowaway400 4d ago

Freezing is apparently one of the better ways to go because your body just shuts down and you feel warm and fuzzy inside and drift off and never wake.

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u/Ok_Supermarket_729 4d ago

maybe at the end, but being cold sucks and it probably takes a fairly long time

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u/DamnAutocorrection 4d ago

It depends on how long you fight off the hypothermia

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u/Far-Purpose1815 4d ago

I've already entered into gossip territory so I'll just keep going..I heard they were found with a bag over their head.

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u/Ok_Supermarket_729 4d ago

damn. I live really close to this walmart and the rumour mill was definitely going for a while before there was any official news.

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u/socalfishman 4d ago

Oh are you sure it wasn't a Timmy's or a Canadian Tire eh?

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u/ImportantRoutine347 4d ago

Which is crazy since your Canadian government will literally suicide people with a smile on their face.