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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Mythbusters" is doing a zombie special, on Discovery right now.
The guy who plays "Merle" from "Walking Dead" is on it as well.
TDale313
(7,820 posts)Should be really interesting.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Also I do love how Norman Reedus went from a one-episode bit character, to upstaging Jesus Rick through the series.
I hate Rick. I hate more that his "focal character" status means he's never gonna be eaten. Zombies would probably break their teeth on that wooden acting, anyway.
theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)LOL!!!
Lordy, I detest that sanctimonious prick of a character. Why hasn't he been eaten already?
I love Rick! So ready to be corrupted. I love the holier than thou types. They fall farther.
texanwitch
(18,705 posts)A really sharp sword and a gun.
krispos42
(49,445 posts)I'd like a high location, a tubular-magazine, scope-sighted, bolt-action .22LR rifle, and a 5-gallon bucket full of ammo. 40-grain solids, please.
Melee weapon?
Take a wooden baseball bat. Hammer in a bunch of 60-penny nails (6" long) so they stick out in all directions. Use a cutting wheel to lop off all the heads at about a 45º angle.
A modern morningstar, I guess you could call it. They used something similar in trench warfare in WW1.
Anyway, swing hard to penetrate the skull and scramble the brains, then pull out and repeat. You could use this for stabbing and for swinging attacks.
I think it would be unlikely to stick or twist in the zombie, so you wouldn't lose precious time trying to extract your weapon from a 200-pound collapsing zombie while others press in. Removing the heads should insure a clean insertion and extraction.
You could do a lot of damage with a 9mm handgun, though, but of course you have to reload.
texanwitch
(18,705 posts)You could go after walkers all day.
The baseball bat is always a good idea, with or without the nails.
krispos42
(49,445 posts)And you can pop zombie skulls at up to 50 yards away all day and night.
Sort of like how in "Walking Dead" the survivors just stab the zombies that are pressed up against the prison fence.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)where someone posted a cartoon-image of a house surrounded by exercise treadmills? That's how you protect your home, whether it's slow zombies, fast zombies, or traditional Vodun zombies
krispos42
(49,445 posts)...I just don't know if I was the only one to do so. I think I found it on Facebook.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)Why didn't I think of that! Someone has to do that in a show or movie now
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Brain contains a lot of cholesterol. Don't eat it more often than once a week.
Imagine, you are a zombie and one day you just drop dead from a heart-attack.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)All the flavor. None of the heart-clogging stuff!
http://mcphee.com/shop/brain-flavored-zombie-mints.html
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)It's called Kuru- very similar to mad cow.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_%28disease%29
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)No prions? No Kuru.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)And cannibalism seems to be the common denominator when they first show up. Livestock eating ground up members of their own species or similar species, humans eating other humans, etc.
Just to be on the safe side I am planning to avoid cannibalism as a meal choice unless absolutely necessary