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When train carriages were returned to Poland’s state-owned railway company, it emerged that five pallets of mines were missing.

Onet reported that the missing mines were carried on a civilian carriage through several Polish cities, including Szczecin, Poznań, Warsaw and Białystok, over the course of nearly two weeks. They were eventually located near Orla, a village in northeastern Poland, inside a warehouse belonging to furniture giant IKEA.

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[–] [email protected] 133 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

That's just Ikea's new rapid disassembly tool, ësplöddën

[–] themeatbridge 47 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Don't panic, you will have extra parts left over.

[–] ChicoSuave 5 points 3 weeks ago

Whole bags of nuts, nails, staples to decorate the sides.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Massomdistribuerare

[–] expatriado 51 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

getting lost in IKEA sounds a bit more risky now

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

It takes a lot of pressure to trigger an anti-tank mine. I don't think that you'd manage it just stepping on it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPP-B_Wierzba_mine

This is a current Polish anti-tank mine. WP says that it's apparently similar to the Soviet TM-62.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TM-62

Operating pressure: 150 to 550 kilograms (330 to 1,210 lb)

[–] Manifish_Destiny 39 points 3 weeks ago

Me with a sledgehammer:

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago

I should start dieting

[–] jewbacca117 10 points 3 weeks ago

you might want to tell your mom to stay in your car next ikea trip

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Luckily it wasn't an American IKEA or it would've been a bloodbath.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

No man, I'm almost convinced that this was a result of SCP-3008 residents getting fucking serious about the Staff.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

You should be good if you stay out of the Authorized Personnel Only areas. Those are mined.

[–] Glitterbomb 22 points 3 weeks ago

Waiting for the day 3000 IKEA desks in Russia all explode at once.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago

Welcome to IKEA! Cheap furniture to the left, heavy armament to the right, low prices all the way!!!

[–] snausagesinablanket 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I was going to tell a Polish joke but this is one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

It's a joke that wrote itself.

[–] partial_accumen 15 points 3 weeks ago

Tänkgobümen

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

My IKEA just has the meatballs

[–] AtariDump 1 points 3 weeks ago