Walmart employee issues horrifying warning to women using restrooms: ‘Stop what you’re doing’
A Walmart employee took to social media to warn women who use the retail giant’s public restrooms about intravenous drug users who clean their needles in rolls of toilet paper.
Devan, who goes by @601devan on TikTok, posted a video from his car wearing the blue Walmart vest with a public service announcement for female customers.
“If you use public toilets, stop what you are doing and listen to this,” he said. “You’ll see why.”
He then urged viewers to check the inside of toilet paper dispensers and the roll itself before using it, due to the risk of contamination from IV drug users and their needles.
Devan accompanied his post with a photo of a toilet roll with red holes in it, which appeared to be blood-like stains down the side.
“This is exactly what I’m talking about,” he said, pointing to the picture on the screen.
“This comes from needle-using junkies who go into the bathroom, take the lid off, stick their needles in and clean their needles.”
He continued, saying that while you won’t see small blood spots on all rolls, customers should still check for pinholes, noting that a needle won’t always be bloody after use.
A Walmart employee took to TikTok to warn his followers — especially the women — that the toilet paper in public restrooms may be contaminated by drug addicts who clean their needles in the roll and carefully check it before using it.
“To all my ladies out there, you have no choice but to use toilet paper, so I suggest you check your toilet paper before you sit down to go to the bathroom, or just bring your own wipes,” he added .
Despite informing his followers that he had only personally seen the drug-tainted toilet paper once or twice, thousands of viewers expressed their newly developed fear of public restrooms in the comments.
‘If necessary, I go without wiping. I never even knew this,” one person wrote.
Another said: ‘Thanks for the advice!! This is crazy!! How scary simple things like toilet paper can be a danger.’
‘Omg! I was just thinking about what could be in the toilet paper because everything else is poison! And now this comes up. Thanks for the warning!’ said another.
DailyMail.com has reached out to Walmart for comment.
The horrific claims come amid reports that the drug abuse crisis in the United States was becoming increasingly apparent.
Addicts have been spotted as early as 11 a.m. in a drug-induced haze with needles in their veins on the busy streets of Midtown Manhattan, the New York Post reported.
A TikTok creator known as Devan told his followers that he has personally seen two cases of blood-like stains and pin-like holes on toilet paper rolls in Walmart public bathrooms, caused by needles contaminating the paper.
In another viral video from September, Dane Jones, a “social media watchdog,” warned his followers that coming into contact with a drug user’s contaminated blood from bathroom toilet paper could have devastating consequences.
“If you use this toilet paper to clean yourself, it only takes one tiny drop of blood to enter your system,” he said, discussing how to avoid HIV/AIDS and hepatitis B or C in public spaces.
‘If you see a roll of toilet paper in a public toilet that looks stained with blood, immediately notify staff to have the roll replaced and stay as far away from it as possible.’
Evidence from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also supports these shocking claims: the hepatitis virus can survive for weeks in a drop of blood, a body fluid, or even on a dry surface, while still being capable of causing an infection.
The hepatitis C virus can survive on environmental surfaces at room temperature for up to four days and can also spread through contact with dried blood.