Ikea is asking people to please stop holding sleepovers in their stores

An employee at an Ikea in Berlin.
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If you want to spend the night in a Gjöra or Hasselvika bed, you're going to have to buy it yourself.

Ikea is warning people who think it might be a good idea to have an unauthorized sleepover in one of their stores that they will be considered trespassers, and the authorities will be called. Ikea spokeswoman Johanna Iritz told The Associated Press Ikea takes the situation seriously because the company "can't guarantee safety." In August, two teenagers posted a video to YouTube showing their after hours antics in a Belgium store; they hid in wardrobes when the store was open and went undetected until they emerged later.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.