The following is an article from Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader The World’s Gone Crazy.
With flesh-eating monsters devouring everything from Jane Austen to Louisville, Kentucky, it seems like dead is the new living.
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THE ZOMBEES ARE COMING!
In April 2009, the BBC’s news site reported that the swine flu virus, H1N1, had mutated into “H1Z1.” It could
…restart the heart of it’s victim for up to two hours after the initial demise of the person where the individual behaves in extremely violent ways from what is believe to be a combination of brain damage and a chemical released into blood during “resurrection.”
The story prompted a few concerned calls to the BBC, but the bad grammar, along with the date it appeared (April 1st), was a dead giveaway that this was a fake Web site designed to look like the BBC’s real site. No panic ensued.
THEY’RE EVERYWHERE!
For one crazy night each August, up to 40,000 zombies gather in Louisville, Kentucky, and stagger through downtown, swarming pedestrians, cars, even city buses. It’s the “Louisville Zombie Attack,” billed as the U.S.’s “first and oldest” undead gathering (started in 2005 by three friends who love zombie movies). Although the event -which also features zombies dancing to DJ music- is all in fun, the organizers ask that you plan ahead with your friends so that “only consenting participants are attacked.”
NOT EXACTLY THRILLER
In 2006 a group of staggering partygoers dressed as zombies raised the suspicion of police in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Why? These “undead” were carrying backpacks that had wires sticking out of them… so police arrested them on suspicion of possessing “simulated weapons of mass destruction.” It turned out that the…The post Zombies in the Real World appeared first on FeedBox.