Man camouflaged as pile of paper at Ikea

Marilyn sez, "Urban Camouflage: imaginative use of military ghillie suit where you look like a tree, local vegetation etc. Funny videos! Another guy disguised to look lie a pile of boxes that has tumbled from shelves in the warehouse area. When he starts to shuffle away it's funny!" Shown here: "person disguised as pile of colored paper at Ikea, next to display of same."

URBAN CAMOUFLAGE (Thanks, Marilyn!)

• [Anonymous]

  I’d never go to Ikea to buy anything. But I would go to Ikea to see these guys. Ikea ought to hire them.

• [Anonymous]

  Paulr wins with the very disturbing “Brazil” reference.

• [chris23]

  “Remember… we’re all in this together, kid.”

• [Made in DNA]

  “see the pretty well camouflage effect in a real situation.”

  yeah, this’ll come in great if i am ever attacked in an ikea.

  funny, but stupid and pointless.

• [HeartlessMachine]

  I prefer the guy disguised as a pile of yellow bags. Brilliant! I want more!

• [Gary61]

  Cool – I can totally see him .. must be the pixels ….

• [Anonymous]

  Wait a minute, is that… LL Cool J??

• [TroofSeeker]

  Okay so I’m in Ikea to get some iron-on transfer sheets so I can make some Free The Octopi tee shirts for a protest rally.

  This creep dressed as a paper pile keeps bugging me about how cheap their reams of saffron paper are. So I chase him out of the store with my Bic lighter.
  He can’t see very well, I guess, ’cause he runs into a re-cycling bin just as the Shred-It truck arrives.

  If you should open a ream of paper and there’s a fingernail or a bit of cillia imbedded in a few sheets, say a few words for the paper boy.

• [Anonymous]

  That’s brilliant! Those are foam dishrags, by the way, not coloured paper.

• [Alex_M]

  Actually it’s a guy camouflaged as a pile of dishcloths at “City Gross” a Swedish supermarket.

  The other pics are IKEA though.

• [Anonymous]

  Is that Robert De Niro?

• [tomrigid]

  With the prevalence of CCTV, I’m guessing we “see” runway-camouflaged runway offerings at next year’s Fashion Week.

• [mdh]

  “One Shot One Kill” meets “That Was Easy”

• [Onigorom]

  Does anyone know who’s the artist?

• [PaulR]

  Just the thing for sniper-shooting spit balls.

  Paging Mr. Tuttle/Buttle!

• [cattermole]

  I did some statistical analysis on the ships of the Italian Navy in WWII. This was the only one with a large proportion of camoflaged ships (known to be camoflaged at the time of loss), with the rest as a control, about which details of their fate were known. The difference was not statistically significant.

• [bookofbiff]

  I think these are just leftover costumes from old Doctor Who shows.

• [yclept]

  And then there was the time I camoflaged myself as a blanket and hid in my bed so my brother couldn’t find me. Dare I say, what’s the point?

• [Tron]

  The Paper Pile’s arch enemy is the Iron Broom.

• [nanuq]

  Are you sure this isn’t just an occupational safety video warning of the dangers of working in a office supply warehouse?

• [Alex_M]

  I found a whole website devoted to Swedish urban camouflage artists..
  http://www.hidenow.se

• [ill lich]

  This is not too dissimilar to the stuff we used to do in a warehouse I once worked in– when business is slow, employees improvise entertainment in great ways. Or at least they used to until the internets provided hours of silly videos to watch.

• [dainel]

  #22 cattermole, perhaps thats because the Italian Navy during WW2 did not employ Swedish camoflaged artists.

• [Marilyn Terrell]

  @ #3 Troofseeker: you crack me up!

• [neurolux]

  Ikea sells office supplies? The Ikea near me only sells furniture and meatballs.

• [micknye]

  It may come in handy at times, notably IKEA, being able to get out of an IKEA warehouse unspotted by customer service staff, can be really helpful.

  Micky
  

  • [Antinous / Moderator]

    micknye,

    You can put your blog link on your profile page, thanks.