A serious food market in Germany is selling pop-up panic rooms, reinforced bunkers and bulletproof vests.
Discount chain Norma is seemingly cashing in on the panic spreading amongst Germans who’re anxious about personal safety.
Online, their BSDD Defense PopUp Panic room retails for £12,600 (€14,999), offering ‘bullet resistance from 9mm calibres as much as 44 Magnum’.
The panic room, made with reinforced steel, also comes with the choice of a bench, magnetic lights, a dry toilet – and any color aside from pink, red, and white.
Bulletproof vests have also been marketed for an ‘inexpensive’ £500, and ship inside 14 working days.
If Germans are on the lookout for a more budget-friendly option, a reinforced bunker is just £4,200.
The annual security report from the Allensbach Institute found that the sensation of security in Germany has declined sharply lately.
‘Along with the massive variety of refugees, the population’s primary concerns proceed to be inflation, the war in Ukraine and, more recently, threats from the Middle East, the unpredictable global situation
and growing risks to domestic security,’ it found.
Wolfgang Stütz, a member of Norma’s executive board, told local media: ‘We will see that interest in the subject of security has risen sharply as a consequence of the present global political situation.’
Not everyone seemed convinced of the bunker’s usability.
One TikTok user identified: ‘The bunker is funny. When a bomb falls, the bunker will collapse like a house of cards.’
One other joked: ‘I’ll only buy this when it’s offered at Lidl.’
Though the German bunkers won’t protect against a nuclear bomb, Brits have began paying eye-watering prices for bunkers that may.
Nuclear bunkers which might be put into homeowner’s back gardens are being sold on eBay for extortionate prices – but they’re being bought quickly.
The everyday bunker contains a toilet and ‘monitoring room’ to provide those lucky enough to hunt shelter in time a view of the skin.
One in all the bunkers in Cumbria was bought for an eye-watering £48,000 – greater than 3 times its asking price of £15,000.
Others are expected to hit the market soon as tensions proceed to extend and the specter of World War Three feels all too real.
The warmth of the Cold War eventually cooled within the early nineties. ‘The specter of world war is not any more,’ Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev declared in December 1991.
By 1993, most bunkers within the UK were decommissioned and sold off, with many purchased by telecom corporations to be used as cell phone masts.
But many remain and are being snapped up quickly.
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