Hypothetically speaking, you get up from your computer and..

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decide to take a look outside to look at the weather. You go to the nearest window and see something in the faint distance. It looks like a man, and he appears to be stumbling, leg dragging, hunched over and headed towards your area. He looks suspicous to you, so you keep your eyes on him. A few seconds later of watching him trudging forth, almost in a robotic manner, you can see his palish/greenish decaying skin and vacant eyes. He looks as if he is mortally wounded, but shows no signs of slowing down. So you open your window and can hear a faint, continous moaning growl come from his mouth. You realize that you are looking at the first zombie, as far as you know of.

Given your resources at your present location, what would you do??

Petrol bomb it.

First secure a melee weapon, something that has a nice heft. Then make sure the house is securely locked up. Then I'd just keep my eyes open and keep things quiet and see if he was joined by more or if he wanders off. If the former, I'd take my car and get the heck out into an even more rural area; if the latter, I'd try to get news from whatever source I could (probably the internet or radio).

aim for the head.

I'd try to make my existence in the house as unnoticeable as possible, aka make no noise, turn everything off, close doors, windows and curtains, then hide with a weapon. Either that or go to the Winchester Pub.

wow, what happens next?

I'm for checking house is well locked too, shutters pulled on most windows, etc, that have a couple of weaponlike objects handy, phone police, keep checking online and TV ( on low) to hear news on phenomenon if any, keep returning to window to watch ...

boring hiding-out behaviour which will not keep the audience happy for very long... ...

next scene please ! ...

Clack... Cha-CHACK!

BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM!

Personally, I prefer my trusty spade.

Invite him to a cup of coffee (I never have tea at home)
Just because he is a zombie does not mean he is violent...

One thing I never understood about zombies: if they can somehow be reaminated after death, what sort of undead enchantment is it that can be undone so easily, with but one direct hit from a shotgun? I mean, they can "survive" all that putrefaction and otherwise life threaning injury, so what would indicate a fatal vulnerability to buckshot and bullets? How does something that's clearly aslready dead be "killed" using conveniontal methods? Zombies are mindless because they are nothing but the corpse of a decased, somehow reaminated.

Who knows about zombies? Anyone?

But they can't be "undone so easily", that's what is so horrrid; they keep on coming even with arms missing and eyes hanging out, and dragging half-limbs behind them. It's like all of their body becomes alive separately. Is just hanging together to move better.

Carries on even when all the things normally essential to existence/functioning are splattered over five fields. Some stories say you can "undo" them by destroying their heads, as if their heads still have some nominal authority over the ensemble.


They are/seem mindless because what we are taught to believe is the "healthy"/normal relationship between mind and body has been "disturbed". In fact the actual relationship between mind and body has been exposed. Is exposed in stories of werewolves, vampires, etc.


Zombies are another invention, a "purer", more concentrated version perhaps, in a long line including werewolves, vampires, and the bodysnatched in one way or another, of creations/creatures representing what humans fear that they would be like if they had no free will, if free will did not exist.

Our culture teaches us to depend on this belief ( in free will ) to " feel alright". But in fact we do not have free will; we are all part of one huge process, all directed by our genes, environment, our previous experience, food we ate, etc, at every moment, and it is the suppression of this knowledge, of this reality, that is expressed in horror films featuring zombies, werewolves, vampires, and bodysnatching alien forces/parasites etc.

Because our society denies it, the idea that we are parts of a process, etc, the image of humans driven by anything except their "own" conscious mind is horrifying.

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Test my new baseball bat, on his head, ouch f****r Bit me,,,,,,,,,,,

Braains