r/TikTokCringe • u/Girl-Understood • Aug 22 '26

Discussion This mother has gone viral vlogging her experience during the ongoing Gary, Indiana Blackout, people angered by the GoFundMe support she's attracted decided to report it and doxxed her.

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u/DJEvillincoln Aug 22 '26

Had no idea this was happening. 0 news coverage.

Wtaf.

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u/MindAccomplished3879 Cringe Connoisseur Aug 22 '26 edited Aug 24 '26

All of northwest Indiana went dark since morning on August 10th, from East Chicago and Hammond to Valparaiso and Cedar Lake to South Bend. 400,000 thousand customers

Very slowly, they have been working on the downed lines, and about 80% is up now, but still, almost 2 weeks later, the poor areas are still without power while affluent areas of Highland and Munster were turned on a day or two after

Nipsco needs to be sued the shit out of it

https://youtu.be/tvkSXsM26Y8?is=rLpabrwR7Cjgo0yQ

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u/thesaddestpanda Aug 22 '26

Good luck with these lawsuits in a deep red state. The red courts will just dismiss them. This is happening because they know they will get away with it.

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u/MindAccomplished3879 Cringe Connoisseur Aug 22 '26 edited Aug 24 '26

That's absolutely true

Once I sued a company for breach of contract and income losses when the service it provided to me failed. That caused me thousands of dollars in lost clients' revenue

I sued them for 6 months' lost income. Because of something called a ‘Mandatory forum selection clause,’ I was forced to file the lawsuit in their headquarters city, in Houston. It never prospered. Last, I received a letter from the Texas attorney general rubbing it in my face, saying they are a business-first state, and that my lawsuit will be used for statistical purposes to measure TX businesses' satisfaction

WTF

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u/Opening-Pickle5078 Aug 22 '26

That's why you cant mess with something already so messed up. One star state.

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u/IdownvoteTexas Aug 27 '26

Im stealing that one star state line hahah

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u/ifandorwhen Aug 22 '26

No wonder buc-ees just said they wanted to business only in "conservative, business friendly" states like Arkansas. Great for business...shit for consumers.

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u/Somanylyingliars Aug 23 '26 edited 12d ago

Account nuked because reddit now forcing login. Fuck off Reddit! See you over at Lemmy.

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u/The_Orphanizer Aug 23 '26

Profits over people. Fuck Texas forever.