Talk:Safe room

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Origin[edit]

I seem to recall that the term originated with a room where kings or lords coud retreat during revolts etc. Fred.e 19:20, 8 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I checked some dictionarys with no success. Fred.e 19:50, 8 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pictures[edit]

Do "normal" people actually have these?! If anyone could upload some pictures of one it would be fascinating to see (preferably the expensive celebrity/executive variety), but I guess if you're paranoid/genuinely threatened enough to need a panic room you might well see it as a security risk to go posting pictures of it.... 04:01, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Requested move[edit]

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The result of the proposal was move. JPG-GR (talk) 01:58, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I believe this article should be renamed/moved to Safe room. The term safe room is more accurate, and it is more widely used. There are 11.600.000 hits on Google for safe room and the top ranking hits match with Wikipedia's description. As for panic room, there are 1.590.000 hits and the top ranking ones all refer to the 2002 motion picture, Panic Room. Finally, even this very article, under the section Name origin states that the Panic Room screenwriter David Koepp found the room always being referred to as a "safe room". Lathrop1885 (talk) 00:50, 6 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support if someone can verify that claim about Koepp. Llamasharmafarmerdrama (talk) 05:30, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support ACielecki (talk) 22:15, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Safety equiptment[edit]

Does a gas mask count as "basic" safety equiptment — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.169.165.140 (talk) 18:27, 28 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

origin[edit]

I can*t back this up with a reference * I knew an anthropologist whose first post doctoral work was in new guinea * she said that the idea originated there when it was still a colony * it seems that the indiginas were both in a very primitive even cannibalistic state and were peculiarly susceptible to alcohol * the whites literally all lived in walled compounds * these friendly natives would get juiced and climb the walls and attack even if a person had a gun * these were individual events and not organized groups * even the regular military patrols were not enough to prevent intrusions *74.78.15.101 (talk) 21:21, 12 July 2014 (UTC)grumpy[reply]