Clueless customer ignores store safety precautions, moves barriers on both ends of the aisle while forklift operator works: 'She casually opened the barrier like it's a garden fence'

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Aug 6, 2025 1:00 PM EDT

What do you do when you are out and about and you discover the road you were planning on walking through is blocked? Imagine red cones and cautionary tape – all the precautions that are supposed to inform you that the road ahead of you is blocked for a reason, and you shouldn't go there.

Unfortunately, most people would probably ignore the signs and keep going; some won't even pay attention to the warnings, because they think they don't really apply to them. They just go about their day as if they are the only people in the world, and as if there is not a giant hole in the ground preventing them from walking where they intended to walk.

In retail, we see many people ignore everything they are told and do what they want. No one adheres to the '10 items or less' rule at the cash registers, no one walks with caution when they see the 'floor is wet' sign, and no one cares if an aisle has been temporarily blocked from access.

Which leads people to write stories like the one on the entitled customer below…

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    Clueless customer thinks safety precautions don't apply to her

    Two hours later, and I'm still amazed... I was at Home Depot and saw a worker drive a mini forklift onto the lighting
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    aisle to get something down for a customer. Before getting back onto the forklift, he closed off both ends of the aisle by
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    pulling out those metal fence barrier things. Not two minutes later, this completely clueless woman in her 40s came
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    along. Without missing a beat, she casually opened the barrier like it's a garden fence and strolled through like she was on her way to a tea party. She
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    walked right under the extended arms of the forklift, which by then was holding a 200 pound box.
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    She stopped about 10 feet away to look at something, then kept walking and did the exact same thing at the other end of the aisle... just
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    pulled the barrier back and breezed on through. Of course she didn't close either barrier behind her.
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    I'm not one for wishing injury on people, but good Lord! No matter how many safety precautions a store puts in place, there's
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    always that one idiot that just considers them "inconveniences".
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    G-Knit I have seen this happen as well. There needs to be an obnoxiously loud air horn that can be used to alert the entire store to
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    report to the aisle and escort the offender away immediately...all for safety of course (well, 96% safety, 4% humiliation).
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    bipiercedguy Stupid should hurt. Pain is usually an excellent teacher. Unfortunately, people like this get hurt, and they try to make others liable for it. Since it
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    wasn't their fault, they dont need to learn any lesson from it, but the store and the employee need to pay big money damages and learn how to be more responsible in the future.
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    Universal-Guardian Such actions are what supply injury case lawyers with work and lots of settlements. The reason nothing can be made foolproof is that new, improved fools are being developed all the time.
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    tortuga 121 Can't fix stupid. However, karma will get her ②
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    hoosiergirl1962 The employee on the forklift didn't yell at her to go back when she opened the first gate?
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    Filamcouple2014 I worked at Home Depot 1998-2000. We always had a second person (spotter) with us when using the fork lift or any other equipment up high. It seems like HD has cut back on employees, just my opinion.
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    Specific-River-81 If she got hurt, she'd have sued, won and the rest of us would have to pay high prices...I wish you took her pic and posted it. These people need consequences
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