"Why on earth have you got a reinforced steel door in your cellar?" The amazement of a visiting Italian friend is easy to understand. He has never been in the basement of a Swiss home.
Cellar? Well, the room is half full of bottles of wine, old books, a freezer, unwanted clothes... but a cellar it certainly is not. Our friend has simply stumbled upon our fallout shelter. Thanks to the thick armoured door and the ventilation system, with anti-gas filter, if the worst came to the worst, the 25 or so tenants of our block could survive even a nuclear strike.
These Swiss! Paranoid and obsessed with security! – our friend must have thought. And there is probably some truth in that assessment. The Swiss do in fact spend more than almost any other nation (more than 20 per cent of their budget) to insure themselves against everything and everyone. But there is a more simple reason: it is a legal requirement.
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Estes Suiços estão sempre a postos!!! eu digo q é não ter mais em que pensar .. :S mas pronto sinto-me muito mais segura sabendo que ha um Bomb Shelter para mim!! :)) espero q tenha bastante comida e bubida, isso sim!! nunca entrei em nenhum, mas de facto ja vi as portas blindadas!
Bem como tb sei, que debaixo da rua principal de Zurique, ha cofres gigantes onde os 2 maiores bancos suiços (UBS - onde trabalho e o Credit Suisse) guardam as suas barras de ouro!! tb em caso de ataque aereo ... espertalhões!! ;))
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