Zombie outbreak

[Smoke]

It`s that time again folks, time to tell the world your plan should zombies ever become a reality. ( Not saying that they will, but it should make for some interesting discussion )

Personally, I`d grab a reasonable amount of food/water and head over to the isolated farmhouse a few miles from me. I have a number of blunt trauma weapons stationed in and around my home anyway so that`s no problem. I`ll wait it out.

 

[Beerdude26]

Take a nice (public transportation) bus, remove all the seats save a few and leave some poles in for hammocks. Designate a few spots for food, weaponry and medical supplies and rally up people I trust with weapons (and who have not been zombified ) and head to the nearest police station for guns and after that go to FN in Herstal (the Belgian gun factory) and make that into a bastion.

 

[Tyguy]

Find a tall building, get some guns and ammo, some food, probably a laptop for porno, and just enjoy

 

[Jangle]

Get some enough food and water, get to the second floor of a building and destroy the stairs. Problem solved, unless zombies learn to climb.

 

[CyberPitz]

I'd get on a roof, and destroy any way of getting up there, besides scaling the wall. Then I'd just sit up there with my food/water and just sit. Of course I would need ALOT of rocks/golf balls/anything I can hit so I can just randomly peg the damn zombies. And if they SOMEHOW find a way to get up, I'll let them zombify me, because, hell..for all you know, being a zombie kicks ASS.

 

[Tyguy]

I'd get on a roof, and destroy any way of getting up there, besides scaling the wall. Then I'd just sit up there with my food/water and just sit. Of course I would need ALOT of rocks/golf balls/anything I can hit so I can just randomly peg the damn zombies. And if they SOMEHOW find a way to get up, I'll let them zombify me, because, hell..for all you know, being a zombie kicks ASS.

why wait until your bitten, just stop showering and walk around like theres something in ur ass

 

[Lucid]

I'd kill myself.

If a zombie outbreak ever happened, we'd all die.

 

[CyberPitz]

I'd kill myself.

If a zombie outbreak ever happened, we'd all die.

What if the zombies just "die" after about a week or two of not eating or anything. Come on, Natural Selection at it's best. If you suck enough to get eaten by a zombie, you're probably an idiot anyway.

 

[AJ Rimmer]

Take a nice (public transportation) bus, remove all the seats save a few and leave some poles in for hammocks. Designate a few spots for food, weaponry and medical supplies and rally up people I trust with weapons (and who have not been zombified ) and head to the nearest police station for guns and after that go to FN in Herstal (the Belgian gun factory) and make that into a bastion.

I'm going for something similar. Why? Cause A; Busses can take large amounts of people and yet they are roomy and well adapted for defence and B; My envisioned Buss of Anti-Death kicks ass!

 

[StardogChampion]

Zombie's are useless. Throw them all into an empty swimming pool and they'd be stuck.

 

[repiV]

I'd head for the Winchester, with a gun and a pack of sandwiches...

 

[Tyguy]

remove all their teeth and just let them walk around

 

[knut]

Go to the pub.

See what I did there. No, but seriously (...), I'd probably go to our shopping center in Wolverhampton. Call it Dawn of the Dead cliche, but it makes sense. Lots of stores (food, drink and stuff to stop me and others going crazy like a HMV, etc) and on the rood there's the Mander buisness high rise so if we did get overrun we just back off to the carpark and barricade the buisness building.

 

[Smoke]

It depends on the type of zombie and the means of infection.

Shufflers - Bites = Not really much risk of being infected unless you`re stupid enough to hug them.

Shufflers - Other means of infection (airborne, blood transfusion - Think 28 days later) = Moderate risk, you`ll only become infected if they come near you or you`re stupid enough to lap at a pool of blood you found in the street.

Runners (Think new Dawn of the dead) - Bites = High risk of infection, you seriously need to run your ass off because they will never tire. You`ll undoubtedly trip in a cliche manner while you flee and get eaten.

Runner - Other means of infection (stated above) = You`re ****ed.

Go to the pub.

See what I did there. No, but seriously (...), I'd probably go to our shopping center in Wolverhampton. Call it Dawn of the Dead cliche, but it makes sense. Lots of stores (food, drink and stuff to stop me and others going crazy like a HMV, etc) and on the rood there's the Mander buisness high rise so if we did get overrun we just back off to the carpark and barricade the buisness building.

Man, I went into the Mander centre just as it opened with some friends once, I instantly thought of zombies. And pretended to be one, the cleaner was horrifed.

 

[Tyguy]

what about zombies that always have good jokes? How can you possibly run from a knock knock joke?

 

[mindless_moder]

What if the zombies just "die" after about a week or two of not eating or anything. Come on, Natural Selection at it's best. If you suck enough to get eaten by a zombie, you're probably an idiot anyway.

my friend and i were having a similar argument. the only problem is that zombies are by definition "undead" so they will probably last a while. the only reason that blowing their heads off has any effect on them is because the body needs the brain to move and such. if i was up against a horde of zombies i would probably do what most of you are doing, unless they're the fast zombies that can scale walls and stuff like that. in which case we're more or less screwed.

 

[Dalamari]

drive to the local police station, get a shotgun and some slugs, pick up my friends, drive back to school and arm them with bats, hold up in cafeteria

 

[tehsolace]

find the most secure place i can find, like a prison or something and hideout there.

or somewhere with a 2nd floor (or higher) that cant be reached via stairs (elevators only) like the fictitious mall in Dawn of the Dead that somehow didnt have any stairs (which is a fire hazard).

 

[DEATH eVADER]

Strong Zombies- Kill and eat
Puny Zombies- Kill and bury
Female Zombies- Kill, and erm....take care of them
Elderly Zombies- Lock them inside the local care home

 

[CyberPitz]

my friend and i were having a similar argument. the only problem is that zombies are by definition "undead" so they will probably last a while. the only reason that blowing their heads off has any effect on them is because the body needs the brain to move and such. if i was up against a horde of zombies i would probably do what most of you are doing, unless they're the fast zombies that can scale walls and stuff like that. in which case we're more or less screwed.

The thins is, the brain also needs nourishment. It can't survive off of nothing. It needs the vitamins and minerals to keep working...so without those...it's only a matter of time before the brain stops functioning.

Are we seriously having a discussion on how long zombies will last?

 

[tehsolace]

Discussing the actual biology of zombies is just plain retarded.

Now if it were 'zombies' that were really just rabies-like disease-infected humans that insanely hungered for human flesh and didn't register pain, then it would make more sense. They could get their energy from eating other humans (I guess).

 

[clarky003]

Capture their president and bribe the zombie community to leave you alone in exchange for his release. I'm more worried about the sheer numbers of sheep though.

 

[Remus]

Now if it were 'zombies' that were really just rabies-like disease-infected humans that insanely hungered for human flesh and didn't register pain, then it would make more sense. They could get their energy from eating other humans (I guess).

You mean like in 28days Later?

What I would do? First load on weapons, ammo, food, water etc. and then find a tall apartment building and hide there. Leave the stairs leading to the first floor intact, set up traps all over the place on the first floor and destroy the stairs leading to the second floor. Just to be safe, barricade the stair case with furniture HL2 style and wait it out at the top floor in the building.

 

[mindless_moder]

The thins is, the brain also needs nourishment. It can't survive off of nothing. It needs the vitamins and minerals to keep working...so without those...it's only a matter of time before the brain stops functioning.

Are we seriously having a discussion on how long zombies will last?

not an "undead" brain . the reason most of these zombie movies use a viral strain as the premise of their story is because virii are neither living nor dead so if the zombie brain cells inherit these characteristics from an infection .... well you know the rest.

 

[Darkside55]

Step one is to secure my house. I fortunately live in a truckstop town so it's a sparsely populated area. With the current resources available to me I have enough food and water to last me awhile (I keep boxed and canned foods with a long shelf life and I always have a lot of water on hand). I unfortunately only have sharpened melee weapons (a six-foot combat grade surgical steel claymore and a 440 stainless steel batarang), neither of which are the ideal weapons in a zombie invasion but preferable to having nothing. So step one is secure my perimeter.

Next is to check which of my friends are still alive, capable, and uninfected through a daisy-chain phone system we set up in case of this exact emergency. Best case scenario is that everyone's fine and all our vehicles are gassed up and ready to go, at which point one of my friends will bring his jeep commander down to pick me up. At this point we will go a block from my house down to the middle school and hijack ourselves a large schoolbus. We now have two vehicles and X amount of people traveling (worse case scenario 2, best case scenario about five) and we divide up passengers between the two vehicles. Before we leave town we raid both of the large truckstop stores for extra food and car supplies from the newly-built Travel America store just before the freeway.

We do NOT take the freeway. We backtrack and take the road from my town into Turlock, CA, approximately fifteen minutes away. Turlock is a medium-sized city, but not so much of a sprawl that we risk running into hordes of zombies. We pick up another friend who has a veritable cache of bladed and blunt weaponry, and one more who has an assortment of guns stored in his garage. This is also an opportunity to nab another schoolbus, a privately-owned one from some family that lives close to bladed weapons friend.

From there we head down to the tractor supply company and begin fortifying the perimeter. There are several warehouses, a perimeter fence, and a full-on metalworking shop where we will take the bus and I will MacGyver the hell out of it with liberal amounts of chickenwire, sharpened PVC pipe, and possibly a bulldozer blade. We will tear out the back seats and weld metal boxes down to the floor which will house weaponry, ammunition, and food, all separated. In the center of the bus we will place a fenced barrier. All outside windows will be equipped with downward-curved overhangs. This can all be done within the metalshop with the tools there.

And then we wait. This will be our main point of operations where we hole up anywhere from one week to one month. If the position is ever compromised we relocate to our egress point, another warehouse that my friend used to work. It's this friend who's worked at both places and has access to both places. The jeep commander will be the scout vehicle while the bus(es) are nothing short of mobile fortresses where we can peek out from windows and stab the shit out of zombies.

Food and water will be rationed and store raids will be conducted weekly or bi-weekly. Attempts to locate other survivors will be final priority. If anyone is even SUSPECTED of being infected, we kill them dead on the spot. If any of us is infected, everyone knows to kill them before the turn. No grudges will be held and no pleas to be spared will be answered. This is the ultimate law of the world post Z-Day: DO NOT LET THE INFECTION SPREAD.

The thing is, my friends and I, we've REHEARSED this plan. SEVERAL TIMES. Real-life trials, minus the bus hijackings of course. We have the entirety of Stanislaus and Merced counties mapped out, marked, and routed. We have food, supplies, weaponry, vehicles, skills, and backup plans. Seriously...we hate f*cking zombies. You guys don't even know, man. You don't even KNOW. We've straight up told our girlfriends, "Baby, I love you, but I'll kill you f*cking dead if you were a zombie." True goddamn story.

 

[Remus]

The thing is, my friends and I, we've REHEARSED this plan. SEVERAL TIMES. Real-life trials, minus the bus hijackings of course. We have the entirety of Stanislaus and Merced counties mapped out, marked, and routed. We have food, supplies, weaponry, vehicles, skills, and backup plans. Seriously...we hate f*cking zombies. You guys don't even know, man. You don't even KNOW. We've straight up told our girlfriends, "Baby, I love you, but I'll kill you f*cking dead if you were a zombie." True goddamn story.

:O .... Oh I get it you're kidding, right? But on second thought...:|

 

[ríomhaire]

My nearest neighbour lives 1/4 of a mile away. My father owns a shop. My father also owns a gun. We have an attic with a retractable ladder. We live next a river. My father owns a boat. My father is an experienced fisherman. We have our own private water supply.

I think I'm fairly safe provided something like our water supply getting infected or one of us being stupid and letting our zombie neighbours sneak up behind us.

 

[Murray_H]

I think I'm fairly safe

Mistake number one.

 

[Instinct]

Considering the hoards of crazed people doing the same as whats been mentioned above, I'd head for an open field somewhere where no-one would consider going and chill.

 

[AJ Rimmer]

Mistake number one.

Aye, that's what everyone thinks.

However, a zombie attack is nothing when compared to a mass-invasion by the deadliest of creatures; The Velociraptor. Mark my words, a world-wide raptor attack would make a zombie outbreak look like a walk in the park.

 

[knut]

Don't go into the long grass!!

 

[Smoke]

Considering the hoards of crazed people doing the same as whats been mentioned above, I'd head for an open field somewhere where no-one would consider going and chill.

Have you even seen a zombie film? Every damn time you think you`re safe, BAM. 50,000,000,000 zombies are on your ass.

 

[AJ Rimmer]

Have you even seen a zombie film? Every damn time you think you`re safe, BAM. 50,000,000,000 zombies are on your ass.

Yeah, thinking that you're safe is exactly the same thing as saying things can't possibly get worse.

 

[bryanf445]

Insticts got a point though. You wanna stay away from places that everyone would go to, such as, stores, police station, hospital.

Me personally, since I just finished the zombie survival guide by Max Brooks, I would most likely find a place outside of the city away from others. Fortify it of course, and hope to some how grow crops for food. Ammunition and the right types of weapons is crucial of course, but I could just refer to my zombie bible if the situation ever calls

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

1. Find Armory.
2. Take over armory.
3. Sell weapons to zombies.
4. ????
5. Profit!

 

[Shodan]

I'd don my tactical gear, aqquire a suitable vehicle - preferebly a pickup truck, drive to my gun stash, then to another place where I can get various weapons, then I'd make my way across the country to pick up the people who're closest to me, take them to the nearest docks, get a boat and boating well boat off to somewhere that doesn't have zombies.

 

[Smoke]

Insticts got a point though. You wanna stay away from places that everyone would go to, such as, stores, police station, hospital.

Me personally, since I just finished the zombie survival guide by Max Brooks, I would most likely find a place outside of the city away from others. Fortify it of course, and hope to some how grow crops for food. Ammunition and the right types of weapons is crucial of course, but I could just refer to my zombie bible if the situation ever calls

My plan was not so different from hers, but opting to chill in a field is going to get your ass munched.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

I'd kill myself.

If a zombie outbreak ever happened, we'd all die.

Have you ever seen Shaun of the Dead? If you haven't then I recommend it. Unlike all other Zombie movies, life gets back to normal in the end.

 

[ríomhaire]

Mistake number one.

True, but realisticly, my odds are better than you tight-packed townies.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

True, but realisticly, my odds are better than you tight-packed townies.

There is plenty enough room to menouvre outside my house, plus there are several military installations around where I live to make life easier.