Zombie Outbreak - where to hide?

[Maldor]

Believe it or not, some people like to hunt, (or target shoot, or defend their homes, family, property and themselves) but don't really like borderline soft-core porn. Go figure.

thats becuase they are girly men

 

[Maldor]

if you got the money and time oil tanker with solar panels and green houses on the deck maybe some hydroponecs below and a fishing net you could have maybe five people for a coulpe of years

 

[Darklone]

Human bodies get smashed into a pulp or easten by fish in the sea

Why would zombies be any different?

Because D&D animals stay away from undead?

 

[TheLe]

thats becuase they are girly men

lol.

Yeah. And some of us prefer under-dressed (but non-nude) women on magazines, over a society where you can buy guns at Walmart and go on a shooting spree at a local school.

Then again, without a white trash haven like Walmart, there wouldn't be any place to get super easy access to weapons to hold off the zombie outbreak.

Gosh, I am torn now..

~Le

 

[Umbran]

Then again, without a white trash haven like Walmart

Dude, time to back off on the negative sociological stereotypes, okay?

 

[Jesus_marley]

There's no way I'd survive.

--I'm not the hero or the badass. I have no skill with weapons and am not athletic, so I won't be able to kill them off in droves before I get chewed up. And I won't look cool, either.
--I'm not the love interest. I'm not a svelte beauty or the girl next door. Ladies with poor complextions do not survive zombie attacks.
--I don't really do well in emotionally stressful situations. I don['t like being scared, and when I get very upset, my chest, head and ears feel funny. I'd probably freeze up in terror if a zombie was coming at me.

If you have ever watched Night of the Living Dead, you would see that your above complaints don't hold much water with regard to zombie survival. Barbara, The "heroine" of the story was essentially a spastic nerfbag for the entirety of the film. the only thing she did was scream. and she survived.
You see, zombie survival is pure random chance. you can prepare all you like but eventually they will get into where ever you are. and then you either survive or you don't.... unless of course you make your hideout north of the Arctic circle. That way, even if the zombies reach you, having no way of generating body heat (being dead and all) they will freeze completely solid rendering them harmless. you can then gather them up and use them as fuel in your incinerator. that way, you get heat, and you also solve the problem of what to do with all of the bodies.

 

[TheLe]

Dude, time to back off on the negative sociological stereotypes, okay?

Aye. I will. I apologize to anyone who was offended at my previous remark.

For the record, I absolutely love shopping at Walmart (no joke).

`Le

 

[TheLe]

Its not that easy.

First...what kind of Zombie are they? Resendent Evil? Day of the Dead? 28days? Land of the Dead? (Insert any other Zombie movie I've left out) there are many differences. Some are smart, some are dumb. Some can run, some can't. Answer this, and I think people will respond better.

I guess then you could apply my question to each type of zombie. During a Zombie outbreak, where is the best place to hole up for:
-Slow Romero Zombies?
-Fast Dawn of the Dead / 28 Days Zombies?

Choose one and give your best answer.

And what exactly is a Resident Evil zombie? Wouldn't those just be "slow-to-medium speed zombies?"

`LE

 

[Umbran]

r:
-Slow Romero Zombies?
-Fast Dawn of the Dead / 28 Days Zombies?

I prefer to think of the first as "Max Brooks" zombies. Honestly, they've been given rather deep treatment in the Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z. Discussion here is reinventing the wheel. Read those books, if you want to live!

The fast ones.. aren't zombies. Monsters, yes, but if it can sprint, it ain't no zombie!

 

[Asmor]

Ugh... You guys are discussing one of my pet political issues and you have no idea how hard it is for me to bite my tongue right now... Please, for my sake, drop the Wal-Mart stuff, I don't want a three-day ban!

Sure they can. The pressure difference doesn't mean much to them - they aren't victim to the pressure problems - their lungs can fill with water, and they can equilibrate to the sea-floor pressure without the ill effects felt by humans. And I, at least, would expect zombie flesh to be deadly poisonous, so they wouldn't get eaten by fish quickly.

And zombies are beyond patient, and into relentless. It being really difficult is not a problem for them - they don't give up whining that it is too hard to walk cross the sea floor. They don't run out of air. They don't need food. They don't get tired. They don't have anything better to do with their time. They just keep coming.

"Can't" isn't in the zombie vocabulary. Not that anything is, of course, but "can't" really, really isn't.

Yes, a major sea floor trench will slow them down, but it won't stop them forever - in fact, sea floor trenches are probably a source of new zombie outbreaks. A few find their way in there, and find their way out decades later.

You know, I hadn't even thought about fish and such... But just being in water (particularly salt water!) would probably be enough to rot the flesh away from the bones, and the ligaments wouldn't last much longer... No idea what, if any, effect it would have on the bones, but I don't know how effective a "zombie" would be when it's nothing but a pile of unconnected bones with no method of movement.

Of course, it does lead to a really amusing consequence... Shark attacks zombie, zombie bites shark...

ZOMBIE SHARKS!

Then what happens when you're bringing in your haul of fish, and you see that rotting "shark corpse"? Go to throw it overboard... and it attacks!