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Gursimran Kaur Died In A Walmart Oven. Anything To See Here?

Smoke, fire, families, and capitalism.

Ted Bauer
3 min readNov 25, 2024

This case happened in October up in Halifax. Gursimran Kaur was 19 years old. She had moved to Canada from India with her mom; both worked at Walmart. Kaur was found deceased inside the bread oven at said Walmart. As soon as this case became a news item, suddenly TikTok (where else?) exploded with lots of theories from current and former Walmart staffers about Walmart bread ovens — notably, of course, that you can exit easily from the inside (unless the safety latch jams). Also, many people came out and said that Walmart procedure is that you open the door to the oven, wait some time (30 minutes or more), and then clean it with a hose as you stand outside of it — so, in that scenario, you’d have no reason to even enter the oven at all except maybe to periodically grab trays of bread.

This video covers most of the theories and borrows pretty heavily from Reddit:

Now, let’s start with two basic realities:

  1. This is a horrible way to die, and…

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Ted Bauer
Ted Bauer

Written by Ted Bauer

I write about a lot of different topics, from work to masculinity to relationships and social dynamics, I.e. modern friendship. Pleasure to be here.

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