Have you been sneaking into Ikea stores for cheeky sleepovers with your mates? Well stop it. Just stop it.

It’s a thing, apparently.

Getting together with your pals, grabbing a few sleeping bags, crisps, popcorn and drink and heading to your nearest retail park to, y’know, bed down for the night next to (or maybe in) a Gjora or Malm.

Ikea sleepovers have become something of a YouTube craze and, recently, there have been around ten incidents in Britain the US, Canada, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Japan, Australia and Poland.

Typically the pranksters hide in wardrobes at closing time before coming out to have a spot of fun.

Problem is, it’s illegal and potentially unsafe and the Swedish furniture firm is now calling on youngsters to give it a rest.

Ikea spokeswoman Johanna Iritz said the company is taking the incidents seriously because it can’t guarantee the safety of those involved. Anyone trying the stunt could face arrest.

Two Belgian vloggers are thought to have started the craze with their video of a 12-hour stay in the store.

Ikea might be partly to blame though. In 2011 it ran an event called ‘Big Sleepover’ in which lucky fans of the furniture giant spent a “relaxing night surrounded by the retailer’s products”.

“Ikea has listened to what its customers want and given it to them – a night in an Ikea store. Nearly 100,000 people signed up to a Facebook group called “I wanna have a sleepover in Ikea.”

Whoops…