diff --git a/docs/ref/templates/builtins.txt b/docs/ref/templates/builtins.txt
index 01f4971..a08fe9c 100644
--- a/docs/ref/templates/builtins.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/templates/builtins.txt
@@ -1683,6 +1683,16 @@ safe
 Marks a string as not requiring further HTML escaping prior to output. When
 autoescaping is off, this filter has no effect.
 
+.. note::
+    
+    If you are chaining filters something after ``safe`` can unescape the
+    contents.  For example the following code prints the variable as is,
+    unescaped:
+    
+    .. code-block:: html+django
+        
+        {{ var|safe|escape }}
+
 .. templatefilter:: safeseq
 
 safeseq