Even the most mild - mannered among us ca n’t spend an good afternoon inside a sprawling IKEA warehouse without leaving full of madness . But if you want to drown your frustrations , do it in cheap hot dogs and soft service ice cream or else of walk out the door , determinedto weaponize those tiny IKEA pencils .

Up until about an hour ago we assumed the most dangerous thing at an IKEA store was those giant , all - bike - direction shopping carts . But slingshot aficionadoJoerg Sprave render us countless ways those tiny brown pencilscan be used to make a trip-up to IKEA even more torturing . He even build his own semi - automatic pencil blaster , which , while not lethal , still looks extremely painful should you frivol away yourself in the subdivision . peak : Do n’t blast yourself in the arm .

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