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Polish general fired after missing anti-tank mines ‘found in IKEA warehouse’ (tvpworld.com)

submitted 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) by DrunkEngineer@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 20 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 99 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

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

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 38 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 4 points 11 hours ago

Massomdistribuerare

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 37 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

getting lost in IKEA sounds a bit more risky now

[–] tal@lemmy.today 13 points 10 hours ago (3 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)

[–] jewbacca117@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 13 points 8 hours ago

I should start dieting

[–] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 31 points 10 hours ago

Me with a sledgehammer:

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

SCP-3008 on hard mode

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 3 points 7 hours ago

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

[–] snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 11 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

It's a joke that wrote itself.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 13 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 10 points 10 hours ago

Tänkgobümen

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

https://youtu.be/HowXEBisrkI?si=SweedishCrap