Been reading...

[Gremlin]

So, I picked up Max Brooks' Zombie Survival Guide, and it's really an insightful read.  His information on zombies should come in quite handy should we ever have to go through an outbreak, although I hope to God it never happens.  So I was wondering what your guys' plans were.  I mean, not to have one would be foolish.

I know the first thing I'm doing is grabbing some of my friends and "borrowing" some Hummers.  They're heavy and hard to get through, and it would be easy to open up the sunroof and reign shotgun shells on the dead.  I'm also going to try set up large spiked plates on the front doors and possibly grill, in case I need to drive through a crowd.  If not spikes, maybe just big blades to decapitate them.  I figure we'll hole up in a Wal-Mart or similar store; their stockpile of food and guns should prove adequate for my purposes.  In addition, the ones with gas stations nearby would be a valuable asset for while, since those Hummers are gonna devour that stuff.  Still, I'd rather have the undead clawing at the doors up my Hummer than tearing through a SmartCar.  I'm not certain what I'd do if I was stuck in a post-apocalyptic situation.  Probably go to a place where we could set up a base secluded from high-population areas, like Kansas or something.

Anybody else got ideas?

[lugaru]

Yes, I want to write a book, make a video game or direct a movie about this idea:

You see boston is all landfill over water. If we get hit by a meteor, its going to sink like a stone.

We have biotech labs in town... which means zombies!

So as soon as the outbreak starts Im loading up on shotgun shells and comandeering one of these bad boys:

http://www.bostonducktours.com/duck_history_main.html

I might need shotguns too. And beer.

[Gremlin]

Alcohol during a zombie attack is a bad thing.  You get even buzzed, you can't shoot straight.  Better to use that space you would have for beer and get a bunch of kerosene or gas; burn the buggers to death.  Of course, then you have to deal with flaming zombies for a bit before it fries their brains, and other zombies might be attracted by the flames, but it's a wonderfully efficient method.

[konbiz]

Now burning the zombies.... that could be "efficient"... although can you even imagine the amount of greenhouse gases would be released from this mass zombie genicide... We'd end up melting the polar ice caps and drowning everyone else in the process... now I think the best way to deal with a zombie threat is to hit them with a viscious.... and I mean viscious peaceful rally.....

[Lionheart]

Too true. Shooting is probably better, even if somewhat less effective in the short term. However, I do believe zombies are biodegradable, and therefore better for the environment than burning with fossil fuels.

I've always wondered, though: What kind of fuel do fossils run on?

[Lunarman]

hey, if zombies attack who's gonna win. No one will be able to stop them all so I say: JOIN 'EM!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[The Phantom Eyebrow]

Some good ideas here.  Unfortunately though I have to agree that burning zombies would be environmentally ruinous.  If anyone remembers the hoo-hah there was about using incineration to dispose of BSE-infected meat then surely an uncontrolled burn of meat infected with zombie-ness would be so very much worse.

If the movies are any guide, I'd like to try my hand with a cricket or baseball bat to start with.  I'd need the shotgun shells (and shotgun too...) and the big military vehicle for when I got tired though.

[konbiz]

Zombies are people aswell! I am PRO-CHOICE... they should have equal rights... we can't just kill them like animals! They must have the choice if they want to live or not... not like those damn PRO-DEATH activists *grumbles and walks off into zombie horde*

[Lionheart]

Oh, we won't kill them like animals -- zombies take a different kind of killing. Besides, they're already dead.

[Reepicheep]

Run and hide.

[GhostMachine]

I've already figured out a way to counter the zombie problem, should it arise (pardon the pun)....

An army of werewolves. But not just ANY werewolves; I'm talking an army of LUCHADOR werewolves!

Just imagine the carnage of werewolves annihilating zombies using mexican wrestling techiques!

(And, of course, La Parka will be the commanding officer)

[the_ultimate_evil]

see what a lot of people are forgetting is the various form of your creature known as the zombie

"the romero zombie": see 4 dead movie, shaun of the dead etc

this is the most common zombie, is extremley slow and has little to no higher brain function(unless trained see example bub).there have been reports of zombies learning how to use weapons such as small fire arms and blunt objects, though if this is repressed memorys or learning new skills is unknown. these zombie can be easily dispatched in a one on one confrontation, its the numbers that you must be wary of. to kill destroying the brain or severing its connection to the body, usually with a gunshot or a large sturdy  clubbing weapon

"the enhanced romero zombie": see dawn and day remakes

this zombie much like its cousin, has all of its weakness, but one strength that places it into a sperate more dangerous catorgory, its speed and strength. these zombies when sighting a prey have the ablity to produced feats of strength and lighting fast reflexs to obtain there goals.  for dispath techniques see the romeo zombie

" the pusdo zombie": see 28days/weeks later and the resident evil series

often confused with the romero zombie these creatures are actully humans that have been infected with disease or virus that gives the impression of death and reanimation. the cases vary with the zombies abilitys being some where between the romero and enhanced romero depending of the virials source. dispatch techniques are the same though in special cases the bodys must be burnt to stop a second comming of a more lethal creature. See crimson heads resident evil remake

" the smart zombie" see the return of the living dead series

the most leathal and dangerous version of the creature zombie. These zombies  seem to take elements for all other forms of zombies, in that they are fast, as strong and intelligent as they were in their previous life, and can form words despite their physical degradation. these zombies eat the brains of the living as a was to stop the pain they suffer from due to being dead. dispatching these varitions can proove to be extremley difficult as It appears that injuries to their brains do not have any effect, and the only way to fully destroy them is to cremate their bodies, although the ensuing smoke spreads the contagious gas 2,4,5 Trioxin that re-aniamated the corpses to begin with. other knwon resouces to destroy these creatures is to wipe out the infected area with a nucular bomb, though this will also kill any human survivors withen the area

remember folks know what your upagainst before you take to the streets

[Flying_Infant]

Enh, I think I'd be ok, with me living out in BFE, it'd be a low traffic area. And I do have a closet full of armament to defend with. Though yeah, after awhile we'd run out and probably be screwed....but then all I'd hafta do is sic the fat baby on 'em.....fat baby hasta eat, ya know. :D

[lugaru]

Run and hide.

Yeah, my earlier comment is a movie I would love to make. If stuck in the middle myself I would just hide out in my apartment that has bars everywhere and two fridges besides access to multiple floors and if I feel brave a supermarket in walking distance. Or I might hide out in the projects if they arent super infested... one block from stop and shop and they built these projects like fortresses or prisons... ugh... kind of bleak view the city must have of the people who live there.

But when I have zombie dreams Im just running, not fighting, bleak as hell. Stuff like "will the pregnant woman just slow us down or should we guard the next generations on a probably doomed planet" stuff.

[Gremlin]

The main problem with bogging down in a city is probably inevitability.  Inevitablity that one day, you will run out of supplies, you will someday have to leave.  Sure, you get yourself on, say, the roof of a skyscraper and take out the first, oh say, four flights of stairs.  Then what?  They can't touch you, so long as they don't start flinging themselves with catapults.  But they don't know that.  They're gonna stay on the ground floor, moaning eternally.  That moaning's gonna attract others, and if everybody else is being stupid, the whole city'll be zombieifed within days.  How many millions of zombies is that?  And every one of them is clambering around forty floors below you, moaning endlessly.  Pretty much as far as the eye can see.  Then what are you going to do?

UltEvil: I discount the possibility of multiple zombies.  I figure they'll all be of one type, and that's probably the Romero classic zombies, since those are the scary ones.  Sure, the remade ones are creepy, but they don't have the sheer terrifying aspect of the classics.  The fact that the terror isn't in the zombies, it's the fact that they won't stop...they will keep coming no matter what...you think you can outrun them, but they will never tire, and there will always be more.  If you try to survive against Romero zombies, you survive longer, but you're driven mad by the terror and the moaning.  That's scary crap there.  Think Lovecraftian horror against, say, Resident Evil.  One, slow and terrifying as you realize you can't win.  The other, OMGZOMBIE JUMPING OUT AT ME!!!11!  Lovecraft pwns.

Wonder what a shoggoth zombie would be like?