article_snippet: This comes just days after IKEA customers in the Netherlands were stopped from organising a mass-game of hide and seek.
article_snippet: A whopping 19,000 people signed up to a Facebook group promoting a game at IKEA's Amsterdam branch next month, and another 13,000 signed up for a game in the Ikea store in the city of Utrecht.
article_snippet: But Facebook has bad news for folks wanting to hide among Facebook room-like furniture displays: The numbers signing up are getting out of hand and the events have been blocked. '
article_snippet: We have contacted these pages on social media and humbly asked these pages to have these pages hide and seek games somewhere else,' IKEA spokeswoman Martina Smedberg said Tuesday.
article_snippet: IKEA spokeswoman Martina Smedberg IKEA spokeswoman Martina Smedberg added that IKEA does not want to be a spoilsport, but safety comes first.