Please Give This 'Panic Room' Guy OBO's Address

I have serious reservations about the higher end of the home security market, which it seems to me spirals way out of the bounds of common sense. But, hey, if people - even ones who do not lead drug cartels - will pay big money for secret doors and gimmicks like smoke screen generators, who am I to object if someone supplies that demand? 

The New York Post has a story today about who's buying 'panic rooms'? Despite the subhead, it is, in fact, who you would think.

For not-so-average New Yorkers, there’s Bill Rigdon of Panic Room Builders — who caters to clients with homes worth around $10 million at a minimum.

“The people below that can’t get their head around spending $50,000 for a door,” Rigdon told The Post.

Rigdon builds panic rooms averaging between $100,000 and $200,000 — but can quickly cost well above that. The rooms are equipped with a host of defensive measures and life support such as food, water, plumbing, medical equipment, power sources and communication systems.

Beyond ballistic doors that can stop AK-47 rounds and up, Rigdon’s panic rooms can have electrified handles, smoke-screen launchers, concealed nozzles for blasting dyed pepper spray at intruders and remotely controlled robots or drones armed with shotgun shells.

As with Humble and Vranicar, the names and addresses of Ridgon’s clients are all protected by strict non-disclosure agreements, but he said the city has become “a different ballgame” with “1% of 1% customers” in recent years.

This is where my good friends in OBO come in. They could show this home security guy what the 1% of the 1% of the 1% can afford. We consider $50,000 for a door just getting started. 

And I hope he comes ready to paint on a big canvas, because we can definitely push the boundaries of common sense. Get us going on a good Fortress Embassy and we'll solve problems that he didn't even know people had in ways that he can't begin to imagine.