Earlier quoted context omitted.
Until someone injures themselves climbing up a storage rack, or someone hides in a refrigerator and suffocates. The liability is massive.
Refrigerators are safer now
How?
Police Shut Down a 3k-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at IKEA
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#162Classic DOS attack by morons. You have that public place, business, physical service you want to block, so you send a massive number of morons (easily available on Facebook) to do dumb stuff in that site. Bang! Mission accomplished. For maximum damage a "Press reflection" variant exists: with the help of the press you make this kind of attack trendy so more morons can be focused on the target. Booom ! Nuclear blast!
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#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
"To have fun" is a good reason.
Yes. Fun for the people playing. Fun, at the expense of the people I was talking about. Maybe I am too cranky, but it seems really frivolous and thoughtless. Given all the mass shootings at retailers, it seems like it could cause too many people anxiety or other distress to be worth it.
The game was in Scotland not America. The rest of the world isn't afraid of being shot when they go to ikea.
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#164The game continues, but the Police are now the seekers and stakes are raise: if you're found, you go to jail.
At this scale, and the addition of the police, thoughts of PacMan on an epic scale seem most apt.
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#165That 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…
You might be interested in the hide-and-seek variant Sardines. One person hides, with a group of seekers. Seekers that find the one who hides have to hide with them, until one seeker is left. There is nothing like the feeling of looking around, encountering fewer and fewer other seekers, until you are alone with the knowledge that you just lost.
We used to do this in a giant church. One time the police came due to an alarm that went off and the youth leader was in the bathroom with a bunch of kids LOL
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#166That 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…
You might be interested in the hide-and-seek variant Sardines. One person hides, with a group of seekers. Seekers that find the one who hides have to hide with them, until one seeker is left. There is nothing like the feeling of looking around, encountering fewer and fewer other seekers, until you are alone with the knowledge that you just lost.
Sardines is a central part of the plot of The Demolished Man[0], the first Hugo award winning novel.
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#167Earlier 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…
It would never go to trial.
The ones arrested that have the means would hire private lawyers and receive deferred prosecution agreements or simply charges dropped.
The ones without the means would be assigned public defenders who would give them 1 hour of time every 2 weeks, just enough to wear them out and accept a plea deal in lieu of going to court.
The 1% that didn't have the means but fought anyways would go to court/trial, and would also have charges dropped before it went that far.
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#168Five police officers were called to the Braehead branch and remained at the store until the evening. Ok... the title sounds way more alarming
Five police officers stopped 3000 hide-and-seekers
In a previous life they used to be Spartans
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#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Idiots, it must be noted, who are expected to require food and lodging, provided at a reasonable price by the local towns.
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#170Worth remembering "IKEA Heights", a soap opera filmed covertly inside the IKEA store in Burbank, California 10 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/user/IKEAHeights/videos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKEA_Heights
Whoa that's hilarious, it's got [1] Randall Park in it before he was famous!
Do you know some other series from that era? I recently discovered "GoodNeighborStuff" which has the same quality sketch comedy feel to it.