Surviving the zombie apocalypse

[andygates]

Must be zombie season again; after getting all bunchy-gusseted over 28 Weeks Later and then positively hopping up and down on my sickbed at the sight of Resident Evil: Extinction, I managed to find the Zombie Squad.  They're real-life zombie apocalypse themed survivalist nutters.  Since all my disaster preparedness has used the zombie apocalypse metaphor since 1988 (Return of the Living Dead Part 2), this looks like a lot of lurching fun.  Now, it's American so of course there'll be too many boom-sticks, but even so, you have to respect any forum which has half a dozen chainmail threads and one - I kid you not - on how best to deal with zombie dinosaur attack.

(My answer: they were talking about a T-Rex so a trench full of petrol, a Zippo and some tasty bait should do just fine.  Zombie velociraptors would be a whole other proposition.)

Comments

[simoneck.livejournal.com]

Andygates - He trawls the net for interesting rubbish so you don't have to.
Thank you for the humour service you provide.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Humour? This is not humour! It's deadly serious! They just had me working out the useful biofuel yield of rapeseed in a post-apocalypse world. (It's about 1630 litres/hectare so use sparingly; don't forget to plant alfalfa or broad beans on the site afterwards to re-fix nitrogen)

[thudthwacker.livejournal.com]

Zombie velociraptors would be a whole other proposition.

And a really good reason to see about restoring an old hand-crank Gatling gun.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Aim for the brain! Hm, thick hide, mushy headparts, tiny brain under heavy skull.

M203 grenade launcher in the mouth if you're really going to go the firearms route. Small arms are a distraction. What's the penetration on one of those old hand-crank Gatlings?

[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

Ob Ch Mishap of Miskatonic.

I'll bet I can train even a zombie velociraptor.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Rolled-up newspaper to the nose and a stern "No!" perchance?

(*Attempts fruitlessly to purge image of RB in Mad Max leathers with zombie velociraptor pack obediently at heel from brain*)

[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

A squirty bottle of ice-cold water is much more effective.

I like that image. More please!

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Nonreflective black compound bow over one shoulder, thigh quiver, BSA engine thudding away while Zoltan, Kadath and Mister Tickles round up post-apocalypse land pirates in a rusty barbed-wire pen?

[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

Compound?

Puh-lease.

I wouldn't sully myself.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

My bad. Death-black recurve, ma'am?