Okay so I was being melodramatic when I said they got arrested, they were escorted out with no violence involved at all. Got a call from a representative of the gym, (had to re-give my side of events because police was called in) saying the couples membership has been suspended (looks like this wasn't the couples first time getting a complaint).
JustMyOpinion posted...
ESH. Yes, they shouldn't be going there to hog a machine and film themselves, but you can't just work in/take their machine.
It was an empty cable seat (I wanted to do a neutral grip seat row because it was pull day for me) that they didn't want anyone to use because it would "get in their shot".
But you're right in that it was an asshole move for me to say I was going to use it anyways, but it was more of the principle why I did it. I didn't like these two thinking they have power over others to not use something, especially for something as stupid as because they were recording. If they either allowed for me to use the machine or at minimum told me how many sets they had I wouldn't have escalated the way I did.
JustMyOpinion posted...
They should let you work in, but unless that's a gym policy (which it has never been at any gym I've been to) they don't have to.
Apparently there is one but the stipulation is all the machines have to be used for there to be a 30 minute minimum usage time, which to me doesn't sound like something that would be easy to enforce but rather just on there for legal reasons. In fact, the manager looked like she didn't even care when I told them they were on it for like +30minutes, she really only took action when I told her they were recording.