Swedish family’s attempt to build Ikea furniture results in police visit

[Atlantic Islander]

By Will Lerner November 12, 2013

Listen, Ikea is great. The furniture is cheap, and there are meatballs, etc. Got it. But it’s also a complete horror show that inflicts psychological damage on all those who try to shop in it.

The problems don’t end when you leave the store, however. Why? Because you have to build the furniture when you get home. Those instructions, man. Those instructions. And that frustration with the incomprehensibility seems to be what caused a police visit to a Swedish family’s home late last Friday night.

According to The Local, a family in a Strömstad apartment was trying to assemble furniture they bought from the furniture giant and the efforts took them deep into the night. At around 1am the noise from the assembly presumably woke their child. The child, surprisingly, did not calmly ask the parents to keep down the racket or ask for ear plugs. Instead, it started to wail. The combination of the loud thudding noises and cries urged the neighbors to their phones, upon which they called the police.

When police arrived, they saw what was what and that’s pretty much where the information ends. But we have much more pressing things to discuss. Neighbors mistakenly thought they were overhearing a fight, so with that in mind it’s our great pleasure to share with you now…

The top 10 Ikea product names that sound most like Batman fighting sound effects.

1) Lack

2) Klubbo

3) Poang

4) Pax

5) Bekkestua

6) Gaspa

7) Nittorp

8) Skubb

9) Hylkje

10) Marmorblad

Fairly confident that this was a major contribution to society as a whole.

More info: The Local, Expressen

source - ODD NEWS

[Dombra]

There is one criteria for people to be considered normal: To be able to put your IKEA furniture together without a mess

I ask no more of people

[Óttar]

I bought two pieces of furniture from IKEA. A small nightstand, and a dresser. The nightstand I was able to put together OK. The dresser? Not so much. It ended up falling apart, two drawers fell out etc. From now on, I buy pre-assembled furniture. What it lacks in cost effectiveness, it makes up for in lack of shattered nerves.

[Prisoner Of Ice]

The funny thing is...if you want to make your own furniture, it's not that hard. Especially for the simple crap they have to offer. The final assembly and planing/balancing is actually the hard part. So if you waste half a day assembling it you could have just made it yourself and you are paying them for nothing.

[Svipdag]

IKEA sells good swivel chairs, but the kit furniture is junk. The chip board they use disintegrates if any stress is put on it. When I build bookcases, I use #2 pine for the sides and shelves, and plywood or Masonite for the back., One such bookcase is standing beside me right now which I built in the mid-1950's. It's as sturdy as the day I built it. If I'd used chip-board as IKEA does, it would have fallen apart, like the one in which I store my LP's, which I built from an IKEA kit because I didn't have the time to build one myself. Well, I'm going to have build one anyhow, so, the money I spent on IKEA's junk is wasted.

[iNird]

It's cheap stuff but I never found their stuff that hard to put together. I find it kinda fun if anything...

[Svipdag]

It's cheap stuff but I never found their stuff that hard to put together. I find it kinda fun if anything...

If I did not have an exceptional capcity foir visualisation, I should have found their instructiions , at times, bewildering and incomprehensible. Fortunately, I could visualise better than their diagrams what each step of construction would look like. It was wasted effort, however, because the assembled unit was, in fact, useless for its intended purpose.

[joy123]

I personally prefer shopping at amazon.com furniture, because it is safer and more secure ... and a lot of options