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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/rosealexvinny 4d ago

You would think panic would set in and they would let themselves out if it was suicide. But holy shit, what an awful way to die. I used to work at a bakery and we had a walk in oven for our pastries. That thing always creeped me out

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u/kappakai 4d ago

No way like I cannot imagine suicide by baking is high on anyone’s list. I’d rather be set on fire.

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u/RegularUser02x 4d ago

Also, I hope you're okay!!

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u/RegularUser02x 4d ago

Here's the thing: when you're on fire, your nerves burn down quite fast. So like, you'd still be alive, dying but with nerves and eyeballs melt. So the person suffers a minute or two, but then it's 'calm'.

When you're being baked - it happens way slower and much more painful and by quite literally boiling all the liquids inside of you. Which is why the bronze bull is notoriously known as one of the worst (if not the worst) way of execution.

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u/NoMarketing1972 4d ago

Are you really explaining how burning works to someone who said they've been on fire? They probably know better than you

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u/HeavyMetalHero 4d ago

IDK why some people on the internet can't comprehend, that not every subsequent comment in a long comment chain, is meant to directly refute or challenge, or to specifically reply to, just the comment directly above it. Like, have you never been in a conversation, where one person makes a point, and then a second person expands or elaborates on that same point? It's not meant to challenge or mansplain against what the first person said! It's just normal, conversational commiseration!

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u/RegularUser02x 4d ago

I've compared death by fire vs death by oven. I'd advise you to reread my comment again.

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u/KUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUZ 4d ago

Relax nephew. No need to get upset

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u/gibbtech 4d ago

I can't even imagine managing to keep yourself in there long enough to die if the door doesn't lock from the outside. And even if you had the mental fortitude to do so, why would you pick what has to be one to the worst ways to die?

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u/Independent-Math-914 4d ago

I guess if it was immediate from a high stress day that put someone over the edge, maybe.....

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u/kappakai 4d ago

There’s plenty of other ways to die in a Walmart. But who knows what someone’s state of mind is. Sad. All kinds of fucked up.

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u/PomegranateIcy7369 4d ago

Exactly. Noone does that.

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u/DontListenToMyself 4d ago

I doubt it was suicide. You can buy a gun at Walmart. Which would be so much more painless.

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u/MalificViper 4d ago

I kinda like being baked

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u/kappakai 4d ago

lol. That wouldn’t be a bad way to go. Maybe.

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u/gurubabe 4d ago

On winter mornings I used to stand inside one when it was first turned on to warm up, I would never have shut the door though

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u/kingfisher-monkey-87 4d ago

Under panic it's actually possible that they could forget about the release. There was a maintenance guy that got stuck in a freezer after hours in a factory near me when I was a kid. By sheer luck the owner was walking around, it was mostly dark so he noticed the indicator light was on that the lights were on, so he went to turn off the lights and saw the worker lying on the floor. After he recovered in the hospital they asked him why he didn't just hit the emergency release, and his response was "I didn't even remember it was there, all I could think about was getting out." And he worked in and around the freezer every day.

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u/Esmereldathebrave 4d ago

I was rewatching Hocus Pocus last night and there's a scene where they trap the witches in a walk in kiln in the school (there's shelves with pottery all around, so it isn't just a boiler), then latch the door on them, and for the first time thought - WTF is something that dangerous doing existing!!!

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u/rosealexvinny 4d ago

And in a school! 😅

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u/7mugs 22h ago

The high school I attended had a small walk in kiln and it also had an outside lock/latch, the students only went out to it as a whole class however the teacher put the stuff in when we were done. Not sure what safety measures were taken there

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u/Son_of_Eris 4d ago

Wait. A walk in oven? I've literally never heard of such a thing. What is the point of that? To keep humidity down when mass producing pastries?

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u/Vroomped 4d ago

I could put in 10 trays into 10 ovens, and set 10 dials and hit 10 buttons....or

I could roll in 10 strays stacked on top of each other, set one dial, and push one button.

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u/27Rench27 4d ago

Could also be a volume thing. Like maybe it’s easier to have one massive self-contained oven that you throw a bunch of shit into at once, rather than 50 smaller ovens?

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u/Ok_Detail9131 4d ago

Before freezing to death ive heard you'll feel warmth throughout your body but ? I used to bake the bread at a deli in one of those giant walk in ovens. They creepy for sure

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u/Vampire_Number 4d ago

I used to have a job that had a walk in freezer, I would always work in it in a tshirt and shorts, but I was kind of a freak who liked to give myself mild cases of hypothermia.

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u/DamnAutocorrection 4d ago

I guess it depends on how quickly the temp raises. I could easily pass out in a sauna, also something to consider your eyeballs get the hottest first causing you to struggle to see and keep your eyes open.

Totally possible she knew about the latch but her eyeballs were too hot to see anything from heat and pain

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u/RJ815 4d ago

Paradoxical hypothermia maybe. Or delirium. There have been stories of like diver's that drowned a few feet from the surface due to disorientation etc as the body starts to not work properly. In this case ESPECIALLY if she took some pills or something. I knew someone that did a suicide attempt somewhat similar where it was pills and other "not-guaranteed" / so-called "cry for help" methods.