IKEA opening in Saudi

This story is a few days old now, but wow, talk about desperation. I know IKEA is popular, but the cheap pine furniture isn't worth dieing for...

Three die in Saudi shop stampede

IKEA employees carry an injured man out of the furniture shop. A stampede of hundreds of shoppers in western Saudi Arabia has left at least three people crushed to death.
A Saudi man and a Pakistani man were among those killed, officials in the port city of Jeddah said.
The incident occurred after shoppers rushed into a branch of Ikea to claim a limited number of credit vouchers being offered to the public...

...One shopper among the crowd said barriers had broken and security guards were unable to cope. He likened the scene to crowds at a rock concert and said he'd never seen anything similar in the country before...

Given that there are no rock concerts in Saudi, maybe an IKEA store opening is a good way of letting off steam after all.