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[-] SleepingTower@lemmy.world 101 points 11 months ago

Seems like the police did the seeking, lol

[-] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 33 points 11 months ago

It's in the rules as the final round.

[-] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 17 points 11 months ago

They just wanted to play too

[-] teft@startrek.website 71 points 11 months ago

Imagine you're shopping and you pull out a towel from the rack and there is just a whole stoner back behind there chilling. /shudders

[-] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 35 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Hey, I found a stoner tucked away in the men's jeans in Wal-Mart, 50% off.

Decided to take him home, and it's been a great decision! He takes care of the couch, he's always down to play some Smash, he'll even let me win.

All it cost me was watching one Pauly Shore movie a week. Tomorrow's Encino Man!

[-] TheaoneAndOnly27@kbin.social 14 points 11 months ago

"for as little as one Polly shore movie a week, you too can adopt a poor lost stoner" 😂

[-] kool_newt@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

I picture Sally Struthers strolling Ikea, opening cabinets to find people hotboxing inside, passing some girl doing dabs in the fake kitchen, pleading for our help.

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[-] PotentialProblem@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago

Don’t forget about “Phantom of the Mall”! One of Paulys early films!

[-] circasurvivor@lemm.ee 24 points 11 months ago

I think I'd be more concerned if it was only part of a stoner.

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[-] kia@lemmy.ca 60 points 11 months ago

3000 is just counting the people they found.

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[-] squiblet@kbin.social 49 points 11 months ago

3000 people sounds a bit excessive.

[-] Dettweiler42@lemmy.world 38 points 11 months ago

I've noticed a lot of media outlets like to add a zero here and there when reporting.
A mix of 300 people could fill the IKEA parking lot. 3000 is an entire cruise ship.

[-] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

You piqued my interest so I went to look it up. Average Ikea is 300k sf. So obviously omitting the fact that there are areas of the store that are off limits (although are you following those rules when you're playing hide and seek?), as well as there being furniture everywhere, that's 100 square feet per person, which I think is doable. Especially considering, if I'm playing hide and seek at IKEA, I'm hiding in the furniture.

[-] FarraigePlaisteach@kbin.social 15 points 11 months ago

”if I’m playing hide and seek at IKEA, I’m hiding in the furniture”

You just showed your best hand. I can’t protect you now.

[-] dan1101@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago

That would be a 10x10 foot square for each person, that building would be pretty crowded once you take the shelves and merchandise into account.

[-] squiblet@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago

Plus a lot of that is employee-only warehouse space.

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[-] Chais@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

Why? Why would there be an upper limit?

[-] squiblet@kbin.social 8 points 11 months ago

To how many people can reasonably fit inside Ikea without being disruptive?

[-] EatYouWell@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

I mean, the police were called, so they were being disruptive.

[-] TheaoneAndOnly27@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago

I'm more confused if 3000 people could realistically even hide in an IKEA

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[-] darthsid@lemmy.world 43 points 11 months ago

I mean it would be pretty bad for the staff and the customers who just want to buy shit

[-] AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Might be decent exposure for the store though. It's pretty easy to see stuff at IKEA and be like yeah, I have been meaning to pick up a new wobbly stool. Better grab some weird candy too.

[-] Nepenthe@kbin.social 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Which is an argument for management not to complain. The staff can still complain. Thousands of meme-y randos fucking up the store, deliberately getting underfoot at my job for a joke, and the proposed reward for that is maybe it will attract more people? To disregard the likelihood of another rendition of the same stunt, if it's well-received.

Gonna be blunt. My best days were the ones without customers in them, and I don't get paid more if there are.

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[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 30 points 11 months ago

Remember when flash mobs where a thing?

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[-] Dettweiler42@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago

Sounds like they weren't hiding well enough.

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 11 points 11 months ago

This is the real takeaway

[-] Pyro@programming.dev 26 points 11 months ago

September 2019

Ah, the before-times

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 18 points 11 months ago

They probably fucked up the place in process

[-] Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

If they were moving parts between shelves, there's a good chance someone bought an IKEA product that actually has everything included!

[-] lud@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

Lol.

A slightly fun fact is that apparently you can't buy multi-packaged furniture without picking every package up since the point of sale terminal will refuse to complete the purchase if you don't scan all the packages of a product. Pretty smart actually. I haven't tested this myself so it might be wrong.

[-] 257m@sh.itjust.works 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Why aren't there paid services for hide and seek? Like a bunch if furniture, walls, shelves and what not and put it in a big warehouse. Have people pay to participate and play whatever games they want in there. You can have massive organized events and everything. Imagine massive game of manhunt in there with electronic devices to show who's it.

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 3 points 11 months ago

Basically just another idea that fits into existing game zones places.

[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

That actually sounds dope, especially if you have theme games where a professional seeker plays being a serial killer in a slasher flick or stuff like that

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[-] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 14 points 11 months ago

I've played hide and seek every single time I have been in an IKEA. We never got more than 20 people together though.

[-] creditCrazy@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Now the question is were there any people in labcoats among the cops

[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

How can 3,000 people possibly be hiding in there?

odds are you're going to see someone.

And how do you distinguish hide and seek participants with casual unwitting shoppers?

[-] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 10 points 11 months ago

It was SCP-3008 Finally, they are free

[-] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

Presumably casual shoppers aren't actively hiding themselves.

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[-] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

All you need now is to lock the doors, turn off the lights, and tell everyone that the story is closing.

[-] dyc3@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Get those white stretchy suits and pretend it's scp 3008

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[-] Sami_Uso@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

You can always tell who's never worked retail or service industry jobs.

[-] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Just have fun on the Internet by shitposting where nobody who knows you in real life would actually look.

[-] kttnpunk@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago
[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 5 points 11 months ago

Abölsh thê pølis

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[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

"Cops"

MTFs understand that it's part of the job. But they still hate being called cops.

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[-] porkins@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

Riot and fire hazard.

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