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Polish general fired after missing anti-tank mines were found in IKEA (www.politico.eu)
submitted 2 months ago by idegenszavak to c/[email protected]
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Officials apparently became aware of the problem when the weapons were found sitting in the IKEA warehouse, at which point someone called the military to ask “when they would collect their mines.”

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How does this happen?

[–] idegenszavak 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

From the article:

According to the reports, soldiers failed to unload part of the train carrying over 1,000 tons of explosives in total, and the anti-tank mines continued to circulate around the country before they went missing.

Maybe Ikea needed the space to transport something, so they unloaded everything forgotten on the train.

Militaries surprisingly frequently loose weapons around the world:

Or they just wanted to support SCP-3008, but accidentally sent to a normal ikea ;)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Blumiemdefuter

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Pänzerbüm

[–] idegenszavak 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ich verstehe nicht.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I was trying to think of what a land mine would be labeled as at an IKEA

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Bümenschrapnel

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Given that the blue IKEA bag is a FRÄKTA, perhaps FRÄGGA