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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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http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-3008

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(off-topic) Just curious, have you heard of the game "Control" that was just released? I've been playing it, and it borrows heavily from SCP (and I mean heavily -- it's the same concept).

Just wondering your thoughts on that, for such a big-budget production to make use of SCP concepts? Reminds me of the Slenderman films (except much much better).

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

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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.

Hell, what is the fire-code max occupancy of an Ikea? I know it feels like there are 3000 people in line ahead of you, but I wouldn't be surprised if 3000 was well above the occupancy, not even including the actual customers.

Space wise, 3000 people should be fine for most IKEA stores, they're huge and retail occupancy is about 60 square feet per person [1]. However, ability to egress is probably the limiting factor; there might not be enough emergency exit capacity for that many people.

[1] https://up.codes/s/occupant-load see mercantile in TABLE 1004.1.2 MAXIMUM FLOOR AREA ALLOWANCES PER OCCUPANT, but note warehouse requires 500 square feet per person, which is about half the area of the IKEAs I'm familiar with.

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

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“People are stopping everyone who ‘looks like they are here for a game of hide and seek.” Deep down, everyone who walks into the great snaking corridors of IKEA is playing a game of hide and seek. But what does a person who goes there to play the game on purpose look like? What are the tells? Are they wearing IKEA bedlinen? I love the idea of a stop and search on that scale and basis. “Hide and seek, officer? I just…

http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-3008

There was an SF story where you would teleport from one city to another by walking into (and out of) franchise stores - the high similarity between locations resulting in space-time congruency, hand-wave ...

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

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(off-topic) Just curious, have you heard of the game "Control" that was just released? I've been playing it, and it borrows heavily from SCP (and I mean heavily -- it's the same concept). Just wondering your thoughts on that, for such a big-budget production to make use of SCP concepts? Reminds me of the Slenderman films (except much much better).

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

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http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-3008

That SCP was both completely unexpected and completely appropriate. Also a very interesting mix of creepy and hilarious. I nearly lost it at the description of the humanoids SCP-3008-2. Edit: Working my way through the journal entry - my goodness this stuff is straight-up made for its own movie or Netflix series!

Check out the containment series on youtube; the latest episode is based off that SCP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM6GkERwEM0&list=PLEXIiC3q94...

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

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> What is the crime? If you've been asked to leave, the crime would be trespassing.

> If you've been asked to leave, the crime would be trespassing. If you are asked to leave, it would means that you were found, doesn't it? > if you're found, you go to jail. If you are found, you lose, you don't go to jail.

Sounds like IKEA was warned in advance and police were there to try and prevent people from hiding, letting them know it was not welcome.

I also imagine IKEA has a loudspeaker system. If they announce "please, everyone, store hours are over, leave the IKEA" but you stay hidden, you're trespassing.

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

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Regular shoppers don’t usually crouch behind things.

How am I supposed to know if furniture is good if I can't test its viability in games of hide and seek?

My takeaway from all of this is that if you have kids that are going to play hide-and-seek, you probably want something more durable than IKEA furniture.

I think IKEA realizes this as well.

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

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Ikea should stop 'banning' them and embracing these. They should build a ticket platform so you can only get into the game w/a ticket. You'd put an armband on signifying you're a 'player'. That way they could maybe limit it to a smaller number per game.. 3000 seems like a lot. Maybe 500 or less. How many of these people would shop while there are go to the cafeteria?

Perhaps you could try imagining that they want to stick at what they have been doing for doing for past 76 years: Selling furniture.
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