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Police Shut Down a 3k-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at IKEA

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Re: Police Shut Down a 3k-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at IKEA

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Post by lonelappde »

squeaky-clean wrote: post #35
LandR wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's not an actual thing beyond a big in-joke. If anyone does actually show up, it will be something like the pizzagate gunman situation, where they have mental issues. Area 51 is so isolated [0] that a raid by any average person is pretty much impossible, they'll be stopped miles away from the facility. It's a long gravel road just to reach the restricted roads. [1] If you type for directions from Crystal Springs to…

The military compound won't be overrun, but local towns are bracing for an surge of idiots arriving the same day.

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Post by lonelappde »

Mathnerd314 wrote: post #33
michaelmior wrote: post #25

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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...

4K? Try 2 million: https://www.facebook.com/events/area-51/storm-area-51-they-c... The latest seems to be that they're organizing a festival called "Alienstock" in the desert near Area 51, maybe it could end up being similar to Burning Man or it could also just be a scam. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/21/will-alienst...

It's the Ayr version of Fyre Festival.

Re: Police Shut Down a 3k-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at IKEA

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Post by adamredwoods »

gist wrote: post #103
urda wrote: post #97

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In some jurisdictions they can charge you with "disorderly conduct" [1]. It can be argued that 3k+ people playing a game of hide-and-seek in a public store like Ikea does meet the following criteria: - Makes noise that is unreasonable, considering the nature and purpose of the actor's conduct, location, time of day or night, and other factors that would govern the conduct of a reasonably prudent person under the circ…

Not going to happen and not with that many people. It would be a nightmare in court. They'd have to also show that the people involved were actually part of the game and not in some way just at the store for unrelated reasons. Possible but highly unlikely. Would have to have security tapes that were open and shut and actually use those. Also highly unlikely without the help of some high pressure interrogation and con…

They could prosecute the organizers. I suspect it would be similar process as a protest.

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Post by michaelmior »

Mathnerd314 wrote: post #33
michaelmior wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

4K? Try 2 million: https://www.facebook.com/events/area-51/storm-area-51-they-c... The latest seems to be that they're organizing a festival called "Alienstock" in the desert near Area 51, maybe it could end up being similar to Burning Man or it could also just be a scam. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/21/will-alienst...

I thought that number seemed low based on my previous memory. Thanks for clarifying :)

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Post by philwelch »

XaspR8d wrote: post #52
ineedasername wrote: post #47

That sounds awesome, but how does a 3k game of hide & seek actually work? I mean, by home rules growing up, one person was "it" and had to find everyone. That would suck. One person would have to find 2999 others, and most of them would just be stuck stuck under an Espevar, waiting. This is an important problem to solve. I call on the engineers of this site to find a solution to the hide & seek scaling problem. Let's…

I had assumed it was one of those where the players who are found join the seeking team. I think that tends to scale because the seekers usually have explosive growth as the poorly-hidden players are rapidly converted.

But the poorly hidden players are exactly the ones who are worse at finding clever hiding spots!

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Post by Rapzid »

LandR wrote: post #2

> “People are stopping everyone who ‘looks like they are here for a game of hide and seek,’” What? How does one look like they are there for a game of hide and seek v a regular shopper?

The hiding and the seeking is probably a good indicator.

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Post by reaperducer »

gist wrote: post #103
urda wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In some jurisdictions they can charge you with "disorderly conduct" [1]. It can be argued that 3k+ people playing a game of hide-and-seek in a public store like Ikea does meet the following criteria: - Makes noise that is unreasonable, considering the nature and purpose of the actor's conduct, location, time of day or night, and other factors that would govern the conduct of a reasonably prudent person under the circ…

Not going to happen and not with that many people. It would be a nightmare in court. They'd have to also show that the people involved were actually part of the game and not in some way just at the store for unrelated reasons. Possible but highly unlikely. Would have to have security tapes that were open and shut and actually use those. Also highly unlikely without the help of some high pressure interrogation and con…

Not going to happen and not with that many people

You may have forgotten the "flash mob" craze, when people were sometimes rounded up en masse and prosecuted. This also happens when people get rowdy at bars, concerts, parades, political rallies, etc... It's a thing.

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