There's a zombie epidemic in YOUR TOWN!

[Rulon Velvet Jones]

They're headed this way. I saw it on the news.

So...what to do?

I'm thinking of holing up inside of a Super Wal-Mart. That way, I'll have access to guns AND food. The only problem is that I'll need about 10-12 others that I can trust to block the doors/entrances without having one of those idiots in the bunch that just wants to "check things out" outside.

Sound like a good plan?

And I'm talking the slow, arms-out zombies. Not the really fast, rabid ones.

[scorpio]

They're headed this way. I saw it on the news.

So...what to do?

I'm thinking of holing up inside of a Super Wal-Mart. That way, I'll have access to guns AND food. The only problem is that I'll need about 10-12 others that I can trust to block the doors/entrances without having one of those idiots in the bunch that just wants to "check things out" outside.

Sound like a good plan?

And I'm talking the slow, arms-out zombies. Not the really fast, rabid ones.


Wal-Mart is too large of an area to hold with so few people, and adding more people will only be more trouble when you try to assert yourself as their king.

Get 10-12 people to help you loot Wal-Mart and carry the supplies back to your house and then kill them and leave them outside as an offering for the zombies.

[Jens1893]

Wal-Mart is too large of an area to hold with so few people, and adding more people will only be more trouble when you try to assert yourself as their king.

they had no problem holding a pretty big mall with 5 or 6 people in dawn of the dead ;)

[Rulon Velvet Jones]

A house, really? What about the top floor of an office building? That way, you'll only have to protect the stairwell (the zombies would have killed the electricity, so no elevator use). You'd get a good radio signal, can snipe from up top and have access to the breakroom and bathrooms.

[scorpio]

A house, really? What about the top floor of an office building? That way, you'll only have to protect the stairwell (the zombies would have killed the electricity, so no elevator use). You'd get a good radio signal, can snipe from up top and have access to the breakroom and bathrooms.

There won't be any water pressure on the top floor of a building if the zombies have killed the electricity. I stick by the house option, preferably one with a nice basement.

[Elway 4 Life]

Wal-mart is good you can stand on the roof and pick em off when they try and get in. 2 people covering every door. I'm in where ya gonna be? sounds like fun.

[Old Dude]

http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/zombiesurvivalguide/

[Elway 4 Life]

http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/zombiesurvivalguide/
ROFL!

[Rulon Velvet Jones]

But houses never work. We've seen it a thousand times.

What about a supermarket? King Soopers there in Denver? Plenty of food - can clear out the deli and use it for a toilet.

You'll definitely need guns, though.

[Mile High Shack]

I'm thinking you need to make 2 trips

one to stock up on food/water/supplies and guns

the other trip is to the top floor of a very large office building

who cares about the toilets, just pee off the side of the building or take a dump off the side of the building

if zombies were attacking, I doubt you care much about hygiene

[Rulon Velvet Jones]

Even if you did shack up at the top of a building, you'd eventually have to move. Can't stay up there forever. A high-rise apartment building would be good. Same premise - block the exits and stay away from the lower floors. Maybe like a college dorm with some hot zombie co-eds roaming the premises.

I don't think you'd even just "wait" the zombies out, though. They'll have to completely run out of a food source to split - this includes eating birds, dogs, etc. Chances are good they'll hang around an area longer than you would.

What about just hightailing it for a place up in the mountains? We've never really seen how cold affects zombies. I'd imagine they'd be pretty damn slow in the snow. Find a nice little place near a small town and you'd be good for a couple years if you learned how to hunt.

[Mile High Shack]

Even if you did shack up at the top of a building, you'd eventually have to move. Can't stay up there forever. A high-rise apartment building would be good. Same premise - block the exits and stay away from the lower floors. Maybe like a college dorm with some hot zombie co-eds roaming the premises.

I don't think you'd even just "wait" the zombies out, though. They'll have to completely run out of a food source to split - this includes eating birds, dogs, etc. Chances are good they'll hang around an area longer than you would.

What about just hightailing it for a place up in the mountains? We've never really seen how cold affects zombies. I'd imagine they'd be pretty damn slow in the snow. Find a nice little place near a small town and you'd be good for a couple years if you learned how to hunt.

I think going up to the moutains is the best idea I have heard

I assume cold wouldn't effect zombies too much, but you'd have better places to hide and keep moving, plus like you said, you could hunt and keep up your sources of food

[Old Dude]

I wouldn't be too concerned about the zombies. They are slow and stupid, and, so long as you can avoid the first wave of "surprise" attacks, I think you'd be okay.

Bigger problem is when all of society collapses into anarchy and you have to deal with all the heavily armed psycho rednecks who are trying to loot / occupy / seize the same Wal-Mart food and ammo stores.

So, I guess one of my first objectives would be to make sure the zombies kill as many people as possible to reduce the competition from other survivors.

Burn down the big - box stores. Switch around some road signs, blow up some gas stations, set up a survivor "hot line" that is filled with false information. That sort of thing.

[Rulon Velvet Jones]

That's why I think the mountains would be a good idea. Let the rednecks all kill each other while you hide out. Come down in a couple years to check things out. Plus, you'd grow a pretty sweet beard.

[sirhcyennek81]

When the Zombies attack, there are usually simple rules you need to follow so you wont die.
1. Cut your hair. Zombies may be slow and stupid, but they have the grip of death, you have long hair, and they grab it, your dead.

2. A zombie wont be popping out of a coffin 6 feet underground, so a cemetery is a generally safe place if you need a breather.

3. Those old school all stone churches are usually the best place to hole up if you need a hiding spot. The windows are narrow, generally, and you can barricade the door. Not a long term answer, but good enough for a day or two.

4. Dogs are good guard animals, so why not use them to protect you from the undead?

5. Eventually, the first wave of zombies will pass, and you will need the ability to raise food. Getting out of cities or big towns will be a must.

6. Never go outside to check things out. What are you going to see? Oh, i know... a giant crowd of dead people.

7. Strength in numbers. If you have to go out, dont go alone, UNLESS you are the only survivor. If you have others with you, go out in pairs.

8. AIM FOR THE ****ING HEAD.

9. Always carry a secondary weapon, like a machette, cut the head off, will kill a zombie.

10. Avoid hospitals and police stations. These are generally where zombie outbreaks occur, because this is where infected people go.

:Broncos:

[Old Dude]

...
4. Dogs are good guard animals, so why not use them to protect you from the undead?
...


Dogs might go for the throat, but I think you'd have to train them to completely sever the heads. And that could be a problem, because if the zombie is scratching and clawing at the dog while being chewed upon, then you could wind up with some dog zombies. Whole packs of them, eventually.

http://reteb.hlgaming.com/teb/uploads/thumbs/33.jpg

[ludo21]

Dogs might go for the throat, but I think you'd have to train them to completely sever the heads. And that could be a problem, because if the zombie is scratching and clawing at the dog while being chewed upon, then you could wind up with some dog zombies. Whole packs of them, eventually.

http://reteb.hlgaming.com/teb/uploads/thumbs/33.jpg


very true. Maybe if we could train some Crazy children to do the deed?

[Old Dude]

How many zombie five-year olds could you fend off in a basketball gym before becoming infected?

[bombquixote]

ever notice how zombies only attack during the offseason? thank god for lifes little mercies.

[ludo21]

How many zombie five-year olds could you fend off in a basketball gym before becoming infected?


Are they highly trained and motviated? if so only 3. well maybe 5 or 6 if i too was trained in the art of defending myself from attackers that specialize in ball grabbing.

[Bronx33]

M-60 and alot of ammo (and i don't care where iam at) BRING IT!!!

[DBroncos4life]

Smaller towns should be the way to go. My parents have a house in the country that should be able to be defended well. Also it has a well, so there should be water. It has livestock near to it which is a plus. The house has thinner stronger windows that won't allow anyone to enter that way. Like everyone else I would have to have some guns, gas, generator, and other things but for the most part I think it would be a good place to hold up. Odds are the town could ready itself for this as well. More people should be able to live through it. I would question how far the zombies could travel and how long they could live, kind of like 28 days.

Other thing I think would work would be a ski lodge. There is one in Red Lodge that is very hard to get too, and it has a huge hill that no one can walk up. The snow gets bad in the winter and I think that might affect the zombies.

[Rulon Velvet Jones]

You'll eventually run out of ammo. Just recognize that. Have to be ready to kill zombies with an alternate method. Knives, fire, molotav cocktails.

[Bronx33]

You'll eventually run out of ammo. Just recognize that. Have to be ready to kill zombies with an alternate method. Knives, fire, molotav corktails.


ALOT OF AMMO!

[Mile High Shack]

I think it would be cool to rig up some traps ala Ewoks on Endor and take out some zombies with logs criss-crossing

[DBroncos4life]

You'll eventually run out of ammo. Just recognize that. Have to be ready to kill zombies with an alternate method. Knives, fire, molotav corktails.
arrows man

[DBroncos4life]

I wonder if nerve gas would do anything to them.

[DBroncos4life]

We have skid loader, I think that would come in handy. You could dig around the house so they can't get near it as easy. Also we have this foam insulation machine that would really slow there asses down even more.

[Rulon Velvet Jones]

Probably not. They don't actually need to breathe to live. Which is odd because you always hear them wheezing in and out in the movies.

[Clockwork Orange]

The Resident Evil series has taught us that a Magnum is the best weapon for disposing of zombies. One shot and their heads splatter like a melon at a Gallagher show. A shotgun will work but make sure you get up close and aim high, otherwise you just knock them down and it takes at least one more shot to put them down for good. A 9mm handgun will do if it's all you've got but expect it to take at least 5 shots to finish off your average zombie. Knives are useless, don't bother.

That, of course, is if you're facing a garden variety zombie. If it's a crimson head zombie, you'd better have the heavier artillery or else you're gonna be trolling for brains along with them real quick.

In case of Hunters, Lickers, Giant Spiders, Tyrants or Nemesis, run.

[Mile High Shack]

as long as Zombies don't evolve ala George Romero's zombies

I think after the initial wave, you could evade them pretty easily, as long as you only attempt restocking items in the daylight with about 10 other people

[DBroncos4life]

Probably not. They don't actually need to breathe to live. Which is odd because you always hear them wheezing in and out in the movies.
They needed "food" in 28 days though. I also think that winters would have some effect on them. While it might not kill them I think they would start to lose body parts making them even slower and weaker then before.

[Mile High Shack]

They needed "food" in 28 days though. I also think that winters would have some effect on them. While it might not kill them I think they would start to lose body parts making them even slower and weaker then before.

I thought we were going with the undead theme, not the 28 days, disease theme

[ludo21]

They needed "food" in 28 days though. I also think that winters would have some effect on them. While it might not kill them I think they would start to lose body parts making them even slower and weaker then before.


so all we would have to do is make it to winter, then shut ourselves in with enough supplies to last.

Or maybe Winter would be the best time to attack!

[scorpio]

Okay, check it:

You leave a trail of dead bodies for the zombies to follow that leads down into an old abandoned rock quarry (which miraculously still has a stockpile of old explosives). You mine the quarry walls with said explosives and as soon as all the zombies are inside munching on carcasses, WHAM! You let those undead bastards have it with a million tons of granite.

[scorpio]

so all we would have to do is make it to winter, then shut ourselves in with enough supplies to last.

Or maybe Winter would be the best time to attack!


Everything I know about zombies indicates that they are not effected by cold.

[DBroncos4life]

I thought we were going with the undead theme, not the 28 days, disease theme
Thats fine, still I think over time they would get weaker do to the fact that they are dead and falling apart.

[Rausch]

Everything I know about zombies indicates that they are not effected by cold.

Of course they are.

They're dead, they've got no body heat. They'd freeze just like any other non-living matter...

[DBroncos4life]

Of course they are.

They're dead, they've got no body heat. They'd freeze just like any other non-living matter...
Thats what I thought.

[Rausch]

Thats fine, still I think over time they would get weaker do to the fact that they are dead and falling apart.

They can't decay if nothing living (bacteria, etc) can live inside them.

And then you have to consider that every living person has to die eventually, leading to a higher zombie population than human population eventually...

[Mile High Shack]

Of course they are.

They're dead, they've got no body heat. They'd freeze just like any other non-living matter...

so thus using that logic

trek up to the remote regions of canada and wait out the epidemic to take a turn for the better

as long as you have firewood and water and food, you should last awhile...and take a trip into town to get some supplies

[Mile High Shack]

or how about this

get a large oil tanker of some sort....equipped with some sort of boat that enables you to get to land to restock supplies

stay out at sea, conserve your fuel as much as possible

to my knowledge, zombies can't swim

[Rulon Velvet Jones]

Not just affected by the cold, but slowed down by snow and sheets of ice.

What about hanging out inside of the Space Needle in Seattle? No way a zombie could figure out how to get to the top of that thing. That is, if they could even tell you were in there.

[ludo21]

so thus using that logic

trek up to the remote regions of canada and wait out the epidemic to take a turn for the better

as long as you have firewood and water and food, you should last awhile...and take a trip into town to get some supplies

I think the Zombies would out last us tho as they continued to multiply, i would take my chances fighting,

[Rohirrim]

Hit them before they can hit you. First, find the places where they congregate. Arrowhead Stadium would be a good place to start.

[Rulon Velvet Jones]

You think a zombie epidemic would reach Hawaii? I think they could quarantine the islands before it spread. That would be a nice place to spend your last days.

[Mile High Shack]

You think a zombie epidemic would reach Hawaii? I think they could quarantine the islands before it spread. That would be a nice place to spend your last days.

if it's done by metor shower, then I think Hawaii would be effected as well

[Rulon Velvet Jones]

It's rarely done by meteor shower. A lot of times it's some crazed biochemical company releasing something into the general public.

[TheDave]

If the zombie thing works like it does in the movies then everyone is Fvcked. A virus that turns the host into an aggressive carrier who's only desire is to infect others with said virus... and to top it off it spreads geometrically because each new host has the same abilities/desire as the original host. Sorry folks, but your only chance is to nuke the planet and let God/Biology fix the problem from there. Or just wait a few months/years tell the food chain runs out...

[scorpio]

You think a zombie epidemic would reach Hawaii? I think they could quarantine the islands before it spread. That would be a nice place to spend your last days.

Zombies can definitely walk along the bottom of the ocean. It would only be a matter of time.

[Old Dude]

If the zombie thing works like it does in the movies then everyone is Fvcked. A virus that turns the host into an aggressive carrier who's only desire is to infect others with said virus... and to top it off it spreads geometrically because each new host has the same abilities/desire as the original host. Sorry folks, but your only chance is to nuke the planet and let God/Biology fix the problem from there. Or just wait a few months/years tell the food chain runs out...

Christ, what a pessimist.

[DBroncos4life]

I'll just hop in a john deer combine and go hunting.

[Pezman]

Wait, is this a precursor to Orangemane Survivor III© - Return of the Zombie?

[TheDave]

Christ, what a pessimist.

sorry bro... what i meant to say was that i would befriend the zombies and convert them to some militant form of christianity. At that point we would live out our lives cleaning our guns and Tie-Dying shirts in our texas based comune:peace:

[DBroncos4life]

They can't decay if nothing living (bacteria, etc) can live inside them.

And then you have to consider that every living person has to die eventually, leading to a higher zombie population than human population eventually...
They fall apart in movies. There would have to be something that would end them, such as lack of food. Dead or not they still eat humans so you would think by not being able to find or eat one they would die off or get really weak.

[Mile High Shack]

They fall apart in movies. There would have to be something that would end them, such as lack of food. Dead or not they still eat humans so you would think by not being able to find or eat one they would die off or get really weak.

which the deserted island plan might work

sure zombies could walk along the bottom of the ocean, but my thought would be a shark would eat them or they would not get any "brraaaaaiiiinnnnssss" so they would decompose and not make it to said island

[elsid13]

Why fight it? Go with the flow, it's what all the cool kids are doing.

[Old Dude]

sorry bro... what i meant to say was that i would befriend the zombies and convert them to some militant form of christianity. At that point we would live out our lives cleaning our guns and Tie-Dying shirts in our texas based comune:peace:

That's more like it.

I don't know about religious conversions, but with shock therapy and the right carrot & stick techniques, I think we could eventually domesticate them into zombie slaves, which would be preferable to killer zombies.

[-Slap-]

I would love to see the world infected by a zombie plague that wiped out 99.9 percent of the population. I can't think of any cooler way for the species to flame out.

What's really comical is how long they show people with electricity in these movies after **** hits the fan. In a real Dawn of the Dead style outbreak, you would lose power permanently within 24 hours, probably less.

My goal would be to get away from all urban centers as soon as all my loved ones have been accounted for, one way or another.

My shopping list before I head for the hills:


Water + non perishables

Gas Generator(s)

AK-47(s) and handguns with stopping power

100 pound test fishing line


I would survive indefinitely unless grief or depression got the better of me.

[DBroncos4life]

Im not sold that they would be able to walk under water that was a deep as the Alantic or Pacific. Sure they crossed the river, which I don't really by that either. It would be very muddy and hard for them to walk across. It would take forever to cross the bottom of a ocean though.

The smaller less populated states would have the most time to prepare for something like this. Wyoming would be perfect. Its not a state that gets alot of travel, no major airports so it would take longer for it to get there. Depending on how it got started I guess (bio vs metor)

[-Slap-]

There's too much crap at the bottom of the ocean, or even a large lake or river, for zombies to walk through. They would get caught up in something and eventually be picked apart by hungry fish.

[-Slap-]

Im not sold that they would be able to walk under water that was a deep as the Alantic or Pacific. Sure they crossed the river, which I don't really by that either. It would be very muddy and hard for them to walk across. It would take forever to cross the bottom of a ocean though.

The smaller less populated states would have the most time to prepare for something like this. Wyoming would be perfect. Its not a state that gets alot of travel, no major airports so it would take longer for it to get there. Depending on how it got started I guess (bio vs metor)
I would head to Wyoming and me and Spider would run over zombies with 18 wheelers for laughs.

[-Slap-]

if it's done by metor shower, then I think Hawaii would be effected as well
That would suck. Samoan zombies would be a handful. A bunch of Samoans went nuts here at a party over the weekend and 20 of them wound up in jail. Lots of cops are going to be filing comp claims after responding to that melee.

[Rulon Velvet Jones]

Would they float? There's no air inside of their bodies, so they're basically just dead weight.

[DBroncos4life]

I would head to Wyoming and me and Spider would run over zombies with 18 wheelers for laughs.
I would leave Billings and go home to Nebraska. My family is there. We have a house out side of town with a well. I would consider meeting them in Wyoming though. I don't know if I would want to live in Casper though. Its still a bigger city for Wyoming.

[-Slap-]

I would put together this badass zombie bashing ensemble, too. Body armor, helmet, steel toed boots, perhaps a small mace if I'm feeling particularly jaunty that day.

I would be the new Billy Blanks, showing people how to keep in shape with my patented Zom Bo Boxing technique.

[Old Dude]

For all you guys who want to head to the local Wal-mart, I just want to know how you think you'll be able to tell the difference between the zombies and the usual customers.

[-Slap-]

For all you guys who want to head to the local Wal-mart, I just want to know how you think you'll be able to tell the difference between the zombies and the usual customers.
Zombies won't goggle in amazement at a gallon of pickles for $2.97?

[FADERPROOF]

I've never been into the Zombie movies much, but is there a such thing that kills them off instantly?

Obviously just killing them would work I believe, but werewolves have silver bullets, and vampires have wodden stakes and so on, anything in zombie folklore that we can use to just knock them off?

There's also things that scare these creatures away, like garlic and crucifixes do not kill vampires but vampires shy away from those objects and as long as you are equipped with it, then the vampires will not go after you and even run away from it.

Anything like that? Something that wouldn't necessarily kill a zombie, but something that would keep the zombies from trying to attack?

[Rulon Velvet Jones]

In Redneck Zombies (a crappy Troma film), they killed the zombies with deodorant.

[DBroncos4life]

If this really happened I don't think it would spread as fast. Sure it would be bad but people now know how to stop them and they know its the bite that spreads it.

Those foam guns that they have for riots would work great against them, its just like the insulation we have. Once you get that crap on you its going to take a long time to get it off.

[-Slap-]

If this really happened I don't think it would spread as fast. Sure it would be bad but people now know how to stop them and they know its the bite that spreads it.

Those foam guns that they have for riots would work great against them, its just like the insulation we have. Once you get that crap on you its going to take a long time to get it off.

It would spread like wildfire because people would get all sentimental about shooting their loved ones in the head and burning the bodies.

This would lead to stupid people trying to hug their infected spouses, like the lady in the beginning of DOTD 78, http://www.filmfreakcentral.net/dvdreviews/dawnofthedead1978cap.jpg resulting in a predictable loss of trapezius tissue and further spread of the infection.

[Rulon Velvet Jones]

If my moms was a zombie, I'd have no problem shooting her in the head.

[FADERPROOF]

If my moms was a zombie, I'd have no problem shooting her in the head.

I'm sure most married people would feel the same way about their significant other.

[Rulon Velvet Jones]

Yeah, but I'm not sleeping with my mom.

[orangeatheist]

Would they float? There's no air inside of their bodies, so they're basically just dead weight.

Gasses from decay would probably render them little flotation devices. Then, the flaky bits of skin from their bodies would provide a nifty little banquet for the fishies. They'd be picked apart before they got very far...and that assumes that while they were little flotation devices they could figure out 1.) how to propel themselves, 2.) do it with some accuracy and 3.) make it to your little island paradise.

But, just for grins, say they could get a foothold on the ocean floor. Even if they could do this, the pressure upon them as they went deeper to make it to your island would crush them if they could make it past all the hungry fish and sea mammals.

Island --barring an airborne virus-- is the best bet. I choose one with a dozen or so hot Southeast Asian chicks (non-infected, of course) with knowledge of the native eatable fauna and I'm good to go.

[-Slap-]

Yeah, but I'm not sleeping with my mom.
How many people on Chiefs Planet can make that claim?

[Clockwork Orange]

How many people on Chiefs Planet can make that claim?

At least one. I doubt that Bob's mother would let him back in.

[-Slap-]

At least one. I doubt that Bob's mother would let him back in.
No doubt. I'm sure nine months of that weirdo inside of her was plenty. He probably even kicked in the womb like a pansy.

[listopencil]

I'm laying down a grand on the zombies right now. I want a piece of this action.

[clean]

which the deserted island plan might work

sure zombies could walk along the bottom of the ocean, but my thought would be a shark would eat them or they would not get any "brraaaaaiiiinnnnssss" so they would decompose and not make it to said island

Zombie vs. Shark

http://www.dvdmaniacs.net/Reviews/U-Z/zombie.html

[hades]

Dawn of the Dead was just on Showtime or some movie channel.

Sean of the Dead was my favorite zombie movie though!

[watermock]

I like the Wal-Mart plan better than a house plan...we need new tactics...

Yes, they will cut power, but we can put multiple snipers on the roof and the food will last for a few days, and there are canned goods. We would have good ammo supplies. a couple dozen guns and plenty of canned food. The glass front doors are scary but I think they have a secondary door after the greeter...he could be offered as a delaying action as they are not really worthy of fighting. They would probably taste bad as well.

[hades]

Just spread oil all over the entrance, when the zombies try and walk in, they slip. Shoot them dead where they lay. Also throw a bunch of marbles in the parking lot, and around every entrance.

Fill those Super Squirter water guns with kerosene or alcohol, you know what to do next...

Toss a bunch of propane tanks into the crowd of zombies outside, shoot it and KaPow! (of course be a safe distance away when you shoot it, like toss them from the roof. Or better yet, make a sling shot thing to propell them like a mini bomb!

[SteveTensi13]

You people have it all wrong. You got to the Dakotas or Wyoming. Hole yourself up in one of those abandoned missile silos and wait it out. Or the alternative. Get yourself a bradley fighting vehicle and go hunting. That would be way cool!!

[SteveTensi13]

http://www.army-technology.com/projects/bradley

THATS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!!

[ludo21]

http://www.army-technology.com/projects/bradley

THATS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!!


red x for me

[DBroncos4life]

red x for me
didn't you know that zombies hate red x's?

[SteveTensi13]

Hmmm, supposed to be a picture of a Bradley fighting vehicle. Oh well.

[ludo21]

Hmmm, supposed to be a picture of a Bradley fighting vehicle. Oh well.


nice try tho. I say we just load up and attack, no use hiding out, go down fighting is my philosphy. :strong:

[DBroncos4life]

nothing kills like a deere
http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/5100/132228stsfampg1tv.th.jpg (http://img95.imageshack.us/my.php?image=132228stsfampg1tv.jpg)

[watermock]

They are called democrats...you blow up the head of Howard Dean and the threat is eliminated...a BB gun should be sufficient. It should self destruct with minimal effort...

[SteveTensi13]

They are called democrats...you blow up the head of Howard Dean and the threat is eliminated...a BB gun should be sufficient. It should self destruct with minimal effort...

Hilarious! LOL

[Natedog24]

Zombies can definitely walk along the bottom of the ocean. It would only be a matter of time.


The Pressure at the bottom of the ocean would crush a zombie easy, and if the guys do float the fish would have a zombie feast. I think a unabated remote Island in the Pacific would be the best bet.

[sirhcyennek81]

Surviving a zombie attack is a matter of common sense. Zombies are not interested in animals, they are not people, and would not trigger their brain lust. It would be a brutal war, but eventually, zombies would rot. Those 2-5 years it takes would be tense, but eventually, humanity would win and rebuild. My rules in page 1 of this thread are musts. This is survival people, not patty cake with the dead.

:Broncos:

[DBroncos4life]

I had plans to go to my local watering hole but after Shaun of the Dead, I now have second thoughts about that.

[maven]

I would steal a boat. Fish for food. Collect rainwater for drinking. Bring lots of ammo & a sniper rifle for pleasure.

[maven]

Zombies can definitely walk along the bottom of the ocean. It would only be a matter of time.

Wouldn't the strong current render them useless in the ocean?

[kappys]

I would probably get taken down in the 1st wave. I work at a hospital - that's the absolute worst place to be when a zombie breakout occurs.

[Rulon Velvet Jones]

So, zombies basically have 2 functions after being "zombified". Eat and kill. Here's what gets me - why would they be able to run so quickly, ala George Romero? They should barely have the ability to hold theirselves upright, much less to take off at a full sprint. I also don't think that zombies would be able to climb stairs or figure out an escalator.

[Mile High Shack]

So, zombies basically have 2 functions after being "zombified". Eat and kill. Here's what gets me - why would they be able to run so quickly, ala George Romero? They should barely have the ability to hold theirselves upright, much less to take off at a full sprint. I also don't think that zombies would be able to climb stairs or figure out an escalator.

the zombies in 28 days were faster than regular humans, so those types of zombies would create more of a problem

[Rulon Velvet Jones]

28 days was about an epidemic, so the people weren't "zombies" by traditional definition.

[SteveTensi13]

Those sprinter zombies scare the bejeesus outta me. I much prefer the slow motion, sleep walking types. They make easier targets. Course, once they get their mits one you, you can call it a day

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28 days was about an epidemic, so the people weren't "zombies" by traditional definition.
Thank you for correcting that misconception. The people in 28 Days were infected with a man made virus named Rage. They were not zombies in any sense of the word.

[-Slap-]

So, zombies basically have 2 functions after being "zombified". Eat and kill. Here's what gets me - why would they be able to run so quickly, ala George Romero? They should barely have the ability to hold theirselves upright, much less to take off at a full sprint. I also don't think that zombies would be able to climb stairs or figure out an escalator.
Romero's zombies have always been the slow, shambling type of zombies. Check out The Last Man on Earth, starring a slightly miscast Vincent Price in the title role, for Romero's source material.

The non-Romero remake of Dawn of the Dead featured the strong, fast zombies. I actually kind of liked the remake, but I still consider fast zombies to be a cheat. They're like vampires that don't mind sunlight. If all the zombies were fast like that, mankind would wink out altogether, except in the most remote outposts.

I do agree that decomposition should eventually cause zombies to lose their ability to move, attack, etc. In reality, their eyes would rot first, but blind zombies aren't scary enough for the movies.

The horror comedy Return of the Living Dead (also non-Romero) had some great ideas about reanimation and some absolutely hilarious scenes to that effect. Also, talking zombies in this one.

[DBroncos4life]

how about House of the Dead? Those zombies rocked.Hilarious!