So they got the police to play as well? /s
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
#92The game continues, but the Police are now the seekers and stakes are raise: if you're found, you go to jail.
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Parent guys. Mod parent to top-domain-level. I'd be suprised if parent doesn't directly resolve to news.ycombinator.com , in is all refreshments. I love you dog. Can't believe people are so slow to pick up that Reddit is the only place on the internet by now. A good example: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/d072nh/people_of...
pr0ncurred, concurred, love you dog. Reddit is the whole internet. Wonder how long it takes for everyone else to catch up on it.
I'd stuck your truck. <3
Re: Police Shut Down a 3k-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at IKEA
#93It's nice to know that Glasgow has eliminated crime to the point that this was the most useful thing the police could possibly be doing.
it is "broken windows" policy in action - you don't stop hide and seek in IKEA today, you end up with people shooting up heroin and engaging in various adult activities there tomorrow.
Anyway, how do you efficiently stop a good game? You spoil it (cue Dr.Evil laugh). In this case use NN to analyze video feeds to identify a hiding person and deploy a Roomba (i feel like our civilization is on the precipice of the epoch where "deploy a Roomba" will be the answer to almost any situation) to the vicinity of the hiding person where the Roomba will loudly announce presence of the hiding person.
Re: Police Shut Down a 3k-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at IKEA
#94“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
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!
Re: Police Shut Down a 3k-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at IKEA
#95The game continues, but the Police are now the seekers and stakes are raise: if you're found, you go to jail.
> and stakes are raise: if you're found, you go to jail
Go to jail? For what? What is the crime? I would say that at least in the US there would be no such thing for this type of activity. Can you imagine a prosecutor trying to make a case over this?
Re: Police Shut Down a 3k-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at IKEA
#96What exactly were the police planning to do if they found someone playing hide and seek? At most it seems like they could ask people to leave the store, and if they refuse charge them with trespassing - but those are civil matters.
I mean, it's a different legal system than I'm used to, but around here trespassing is criminal.
Generally you're not trespassing in a store until they ask you to leave, or you've been informed not to engage in certain activity.
Re: Police Shut Down a 3k-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at IKEA
#97The game continues, but the Police are now the seekers and stakes are raise: if you're found, you go to jail.
> and stakes are raise: if you're found, you go to jail Go to jail? For what? What is the crime? I would say that at least in the US there would be no such thing for this type of activity. Can you imagine a prosecutor trying to make a case over this?
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 circumstances.
- Creates or maintains a hazardous or physically offensive condition.
Re: Police Shut Down a 3k-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at IKEA
#98That 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.
That makes it sound rather Borg like.
Re: Police Shut Down a 3k-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at IKEA
#99That 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…
Start with a scrum master ...
Oh no, no no no, Agile hide & seek is just plain wrong
Re: Police Shut Down a 3k-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at IKEA
#100Five police officers were called to the Braehead branch and remained at the store until the evening.
Ok... the title sounds way more alarming