I feel like they would have been better off officially sanctioning the event and making a big PR stunt out of it.
The article points out this has been common in Europe and that Ikea originally supported the idea until it got out of hand.
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#22This makes me curious how the upcoming raid on Area 51 will go.
Is this an actual thing? I thought it was a joke, is it meant to be a joke but some people are going to turn up having it taken it seriously? Not an American, but I feel that could go badly.
I guess part of the appeal is that nobody knows how many, if at all, people will show up.
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#23I feel like they would have been better off officially sanctioning the event and making a big PR stunt out of it.
As the article mention, they used to allow it but had to ban it since 2015. No details as to why except for vague PR speak of safety, my guess is they can't get insurance coverage for the events, at least not at reasonable price.
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#24I feel like they would have been better off officially sanctioning the event and making a big PR stunt out of it.
Dealing with health and safety would be a nightmare.
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#25This makes me curious how the upcoming raid on Area 51 will go.
Is this an actual thing? I thought it was a joke, is it meant to be a joke but some people are going to turn up having it taken it seriously? Not an American, but I feel that could go badly.
I think whether or not it was started as a joke is somewhat irrelevant now that over 4K people have signed up. It seems likely that at least of few those people will actually try to show up.
https://www.facebook.com/events/area-51-groom-lake/raid-area...
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#27I feel like they would have been better off officially sanctioning the event and making a big PR stunt out of it.
I'm pretty sure half the reason why they do it is to inconvenience/disturb the other customers there.
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#28How is a 3000-person game of hide-and-seek supposed to work? Hide-and-seek typically involves knowing who you're looking for, or at least knowing that anyone in a given area is in on the game.
I was wondering the exact same thing. Who hides and who seeks? I'm guessing that it's more like people go in small groups and do it within their own group but just with the size of the Ikea store being the fun factor. Or maybe they team up against another group of equal size to see which group can find each other faster?
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#29I feel like they would have been better off officially sanctioning the event and making a big PR stunt out of it.
The article points out this has been common in Europe and that Ikea originally supported the idea until it got out of hand.
Another case of “why we can’t have nice things”. In moderation things work. People start abusing liberties and they have to be taken away cuz people forget how to behave.
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#30I feel like they would have been better off officially sanctioning the event and making a big PR stunt out of it.
Maybe after hours, but paying people to manage that situation after hours probabbly isn't worth the PR.
In the meantime the Ikea near me is packed as it is and they're busy selling stuff.