Toby shouldn't be lying underneath the footstool frame - he should be on top of it...
Unfortunately Denise didn't know that the wooden rest would collapse when she put her knee on it whilst buttoning up Toby.
Toby's fine - but Denise has badly bruised her leg - hopefully some frozen sweetcorn will reduce the swelling
I just phoned Ikea to complain about the damn thing - they said 'it is only meant for resting your feet on' - yes - but obviously given its general height and appearance people are going to be tempted to sit on it, kneel on it, use it to put something on etc - if it is so liable to collapse then they should make this clear in store/or in product documentation - where there is no warning that I can find.
[update: I just talked to Chris
at Ikea Croydon, basically held to the line that this was only designed to "rest your feet on" - therefore they were not responsible for anything that was caused by misuse/unintended use. Nor would they look into making changes to any documentation to provide any form of warning about misuse. I suggested that they put enough warnings on other products - but Chris was adamant that "it is commonsense" to only rest your feet on this.
He was polite enough - and also open to me taking this further through trading standards etc - or bringing in footstool for them to look at - I think I'll try and find out if anyone else has had similar problems with this item. (Chris said this is one of their most popular items and they hadn't had any other complaints about it!)
