SC parents stop man accused of looking under bathroom stall at Cracker Barrel, chief says

WIS ^ | 9/21/2020

[Gamecock]

By WYFF | September 21, 2020 at 3:23 PM EDT - Updated September 21 at 10:48 PM DUNCAN, S.C. (WYFF) - A North Carolina man was arrested in the Upstate after he was caught looking under a woman’s bathroom stall at a Cracker Barrel restaurant, according to Duncan police Chief Carl Long.

Long said a 15-year-old girl spotted Douglas Lane, 53, looking underneath the bathroom stall.

He said it happened Sunday at the Duncan restaurant.

Douglas Lane arrested outside Cracker Barrel in Duncan.

Long said parents in town for a girl’s softball tournament stopped Lane until officers arrived.

A WYFF News 4 viewer was there and captured video that shows Lane on the ground with a bloody face and shirt outside the restaurant.

Lane was charged with voyeurism, simple possession of marijuana and paraphernalia, Long said.

A witness told WYFF News 4 that he was inside the restaurant and heard a commotion that sounded like a fight. He said he heard people say, “Get him, he’s getting away.”

He and his son were close to the door and saw a man with a very bloody nose run outside.

The witness said he saw someone tackle him on the other side of the parking lot.

He and his son saw people hit the man. The witness said he handed off his son to his wife and went outside and took the video. He said he heard police come shortly after that.

He said his son asked him a lot of questions about what happened and he told him that “there was a bad guy and a lot of good guys took down the bad guy.”

During a bond hearing on Monday, Lane’s attorney said, when asked why Lane was in the woman’s bathroom, he said he had to use the bathroom and did not realize he was in the women’s until he sat down.

Long said Lane is a registered sex offender in North Carolina.

The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigations says Lane was registered as a sex offender in 2008.

He was convicted of secretly peeping into an occupied room in 2004 in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, records show. The record says the victims were 8 and 9 years old.

In 2008, records show Lane was convicted of secretly peeping into an occupied room, also in Mecklenburg County. The victim in this case was 18 years or older, records show.

The South Carolina sex offender registry says Lane was convicted of peeping, voyeurism, or aggravated voyeurism in South Carolina in 1997 and failure to register in 1999.

[Gamecock]

He and his son were close to the door and saw a man with a very bloody nose run outside.

The witness said he saw someone tackle him on the other side of the parking lot.

He and his son saw people hit the man. The witness said he handed off his son to his wife and went outside and took the video. He said he heard police come shortly after that.

He said his son asked him a lot of questions about what happened and he told him that “there was a bad guy and a lot of good guys took down the bad guy.”

[Gamecock]

?

[cymbeline]

Maybe, just possibly, those sneaky 8 ahd 9 year olds had reached under the stall and stole his toilet paper.

[glennaro]

Use the governors’ defense against their ongoing criminal actions: The Chinese Froo made me do it.

[Pearls Before Swine]

He was looking for his glasses?

Glad he met some local resistance!

[EEGator]

He couldn’t spare a square.

[metmom]

Now there’s consequences.

Only problem is, he can still see, his eyes are not swollen shut enough.

[redshawk]

Poor Elaine. ....
https://youtu.be/Gysu0kgFwT0

[D Rider]

The resultant action took place at a Cracker Barrel restaurant... of course it did.

[Ken H]

Geez, poor guy must’ve fell down.

[ronniesgal]

i have several occasions where an older male wanders into the ladies room. Not paying attention or too lazy to look at the damn signs.

[Responsibility2nd]

Give him a break. Come on, man. He was probably filming another scene for Cuties.

[Mark17]

Geez, poor guy must’ve fell down.

Death Wish? 😁

[momtothree]

“... poor guy must’ve fell down”

I’ll finish the sentence for you, Ken! Poor guy must’ve fell down six times! :)

[4yearlurker]

Is his name on the Epstein flight list?

[Gamecock]

Repeatedly

[Gamecock]

A lot of people do that. I’ve seen women wander into the men’s room.

[central_va]

They have KFC’s in South Korea. It had separate men’s and ladies room doors. When you go in to the rest room you quickly realize it is one restroom for all. KFC was not he only one like that. BTW fried chicken is king in Asia. Col Sanders is some kind of folk hero.

[ronniesgal]

it takes 2 seconds to check the door sign. If there’s an old guy in the ladies room I have to wait my turn, when he could have gone to the mens room.
Just pay attention.