Coming with the dog to IKEA Köln-Am Butzweilerhof ?And here is a photo of a couple of dogs parked at the store:
There are many adults and children who are afraid of dogs. For this as well as for hygienic reasons we have decided not to allow dogs in IKEA stores, with the exception of guide dogs.
If you do not want to leave your dog at home, we've set up a dog parking area in front of our entrance.
It’s called the Christmas Tinner and consists of nine layers of processed festive food, as demonstrated in the picture below. Apparently the chain has actually trialled this product in its Basingstoke store and is considering a national rollout “if there is enough gamer demand”.
How said “demand” will be measured remains unspecified. Although we do know that it will cost £1.99 per tin if it comes to fruition.
A “without sprouts” variant is available for those who dislike brussel sprouts. But like the idea of an entire Christmas dinner in a tin.
Decades after its formation, the Occult-Related Crime Unit (ORCU, founded by Kobus "Donker" Jonker in 1992) continues to waste public resources, misdirect police attention, and stigmatize young people who are by and large more misunderstood than malignant.
Amongst all the crimes that we can speculate police in this unit might have seen, there's one we can be sure of - and it's one that they are complicit in. The crime in question is against common sense and morality, and is vested in the reinforcing of a Christian evangelical "Satanic Panic".
In the context of South Africa's constitutionally-protected freedom of religion, restricting membership of a police unit to only Christians - and dedicating that unit to protecting a Christian version of reality - is itself worthy of special attention as an occult-related crime.
Because a unit can't investigate itself, I'd ask the Minister of Police to consider funding a new Occult-Related-Related Crimes Unit, which I volunteer to lead. Our mission? To be ruthless in pursuing crimes related to simplistic, moralizing, and religiously prejudiced views of crime, society at large, and especially the youth.
Even on the very fuzzy definition of "occult" used by ORCU, too few such crimes occur to merit the existence of a dedicated unit. But it is in the definition of these crimes, as well as the background metaphysics and psychology, that ORCU starts to appear just as spooky as the crimes and motivations ORCU exists to combat.
In response (I presume) to a fairly constant barrage of criticism on social media, the South African Police Service (SAPS) removed the web page that gave us our best insight into how a unit in a 21st-century police force is being guided by ideas from the Dark Ages.
But thanks to the Wayback Machine, we can see not only that "Child has an interest in computer" is a sign that said child might be involved in a cult, but also that this and other equally ridiculous diagnostic advice has remained unchanged since September 2004 (the archived page from then - the earliest date the page was captured - being identical to the one that was removed in November 2013):
http://web.archive.org/web/20040922161210/http://www.saps.gov.za/youth_desk/occult/occult.htm
I don't mean to dispute that adolescents, and others, commit crimes in the service of motivations they themselves think of as occult. But when they do so, why is it that this motivation is singled out for special attention? We don't have a jealousy-related crimes unit, or a greed-related, tender-related, BEE-related, or alien-related unit - even though all of these provide possible motivations to commit crimes, mostly with far greater regularity than the occult would.
Then, if we find that a crime is committed because the guilty party thought themselves under some supernatural instruction, we know full well what to do next: arrange for that person to get the psychological help they clearly need, alongside whatever other sentence is appropriate.
The latest outbreak was on Thursday in Laurence Harbor, NJ:Authorities received a report this morning from a passerby who came upon a catapult at the Old Bridge Waterfront Park.
When police responded to the Laurence Harbor beach, they found the device. And after a brief investigation – involving looking at the scattered pumpkin shards around the piece of weaponry – they were able to determine that it was used to fire large orange gourds into the great blue abyss.
"I guess a bunch of people carried it down there and had a good time shooting these pumpkins into the ocean," said Lieutenant Paul Moser of the Old Bridge Police Department.
Must be pretty boring in Laurence Harbor, NJ.When police arrived, the crank that made the pumpkin-launcher operational had been taken off the device. Pumpkin Chunkin is a (self-explanatory) thing that happens in Delaware, among other places, including Warren County. This is apparently the unsanctioned Jersey Shore version.
Hot on the heals of a Minnesota 
In what some might jokingly describe as a case of crooks wanting to help crooks become lawyers, a Minnesota law firm is offering a law school scholarship exclusively for people who have been in trouble with the law.
