Zombie Outbreak?

[Moot]

Shock! Horror! Zombies have inexplicably overrun the country, and in only a few hours!

What do you do? Do you attempt to save your friends and family and head for the hills? Go out in a blaze of glory with your 12 Gauge, and take out as many of those undead gits as you can before you're overrun? Or do you hole up in your basement like a coward and wait for your inevitable zombification?

Saw this topic on another board I lurk at and thought the discussion of Zombie Survival Techniques would make interesting after dinner conversation

Personally I'd try to get a band of people together and make a break for it, but considering the only form of weaponry I have against the Zombie Hordes is a baseball bat and various gardening equipment it'd be a challenge, to say the least. But still, I know of a place a few minutes away by car that has some gear to use but who know s if its already been looted or infested with zombies by the time you get there. Still something other than a shovel must be better for clearing a path ahead and getting rid of any Zombies that weant to become special friends... presuming I don't get eaten before that.

[PinkFloydYoshi]

According to this, I'd have an 87% chance of survival by just attacking with a pencil case.

Thank the lord for barrel roll's.

Eitherway, I'd go out fighting. I'd rather die fighting for a good cause than die cowering in a corner!

[Brute]

well if was me i would try to find either a big o' gun or find a big sharp machette and kill all of those good for nothin zombies (well..until i have to get eaten unfortunately.) but yeah im not gonna be a coward and run away though.

[UMS Author Lava]

Well, if zombies existed, then I would be able to use super-powerful magic, no? ;D

[dude]

I would not run to the hills. Probably there's a mansion there with more zombies. And a Tyrant, maybe. I would prabably run to the nearest Gun/weapon/whatever shop and lock myself there with a shotgun, some granades and a magnum. AND a pretty sword =D

[Enrique]

Although I am a rather peaceful person and don't like to randomly hit people, I would collect a chainsaw, sledgehammer, and a rather large gun of some sort and go ballistic on them zombie idiots.

[Strangie]

*flashbacks of Resident Evil 4* @_@ I'd totally bust out the high-powered revolver, fire once and drop like 10 zombies right in a row.

The zombies have to come from SOMEWHERE, though, so maybe I would concentrate on finding that instead.

Like... the zombie overlord or something. REVOLVER TO THE FACE! BOOM, HEADSHOT!!! ;D

[Yesha]

*thinks about Resident evil* *shrudders*
well I hate zombies, and if they really would exist, I would probably climb in a really high tree, and don't come out until they were gone.

or I would live on a island in the middle of the sea, Zombies can't swim, I think 0_o;

[Yoshi]

It is time. Hammer time. Bring out the sledge and the lawnmower. Can't touch this!

[Not-Garr]

Why, then I'd bust out my baseball bat, or even better, good ol' Dad's SKS and shoot me some zombies!!

...Whilst I flee to the nearest National Guard station to try and get the government all over this. After all, nothing better than trained professionals for taking down zombies, yes?

[boomiester]

First off, I would take lots of pictures so I could prove I was there if I survive. Then I would grab the tire-iron out of the garage, or if I have time, a homemade flamethrower from all the solvents and crap laying around the house. After making an escape either on foot or bicycle, I would head for my friends houses (it's a small town, I could make it) and if they weren't already zombies, they could help formulate a zombie removal strategy.

...or if it didn't work out so well, I'd just get the heck out of there and escape to somewhere safe until the danger was over.

[Swift]

Considering I'm not a very strong person, and I'm much better at running, I'd most likely retreat at first. If my mother/brother havne't already become zombies themselves, I could have one of them drive to the town where my grandma lives to see if she has my dad's old hunting guns. If they're zombies, then I'll try driving there myself... Or, better yet, I'd four-wheel drive over the zombies.

[yoshi4evr]

If zombies came to where i live ill kill them wit my hammer!!! which is made of pure metal...

[DarkBlueYoshi]

I'd get out of any metro area so there'd be less of them. And yes, I'd use a gun then. It's not being a coward, it's logic.

[spikeyoshi]

*Goes into Halo 2, Rides a banshee to bridge returns to zombie infested place* Say hello to meh little friend!!! *Blows zombies to bits with Scarab gun!!* Thats how i would do it ^^

[SK \.10.256/]

Incineration seems to be the best technique, a gunshot wound wouldn't really do much.

[dragonpaw]

Well, I might do one of several things...

Path One: Grab matches, gasoline (lots of if), and money. The flammable kind. Throw them into a backpack, grab a shovel, and then set off, off to... Wait, there isn't anything useful within fifty mile sof me. All right, so off into the corn fields!

I'd just make a stealthy run for it either on my bicycle somehow or on foot. Then I'd go out into the countryside and hide in a forest, decapitating random zombies with a shovel. The gasoline and matches are as a safeguard so that I can take out a bunch of zombies in a forest fire.

Path Two: Really simple. Pour the gasoline- that I SWEAR I didn't steal from all the gas stations and garages within twenty miles- around every single slightly flammable thing around my house and yard, light a bunch of matches, and then throw them into the gasoline. I'd also shout "Fire trumps aaaall!" at random intervals. Until I ignite, myself, and die painfully. But at least I would have taken out anything within the state of Ohio.

[Gene L.D. Ryoko]

I'd go out with an M2 and once that runs out my good ol' M16. after that buy a katana,pour gasoline on it,light it,and have a zombie barbque

[Graedius]

Hijack a rocket and hide on a space station. >>; <<;
Or hide in a base you previously made for such an event under da sea, under da seeeeaaa.....

Actually, me and a few friends had discussed this before, haha...

[contention]

Why if Zombies had overrun this "peaceful little" world, I think there would be a multlipitude of things to run into...

First off I would have to go on some dramatic search for some kind of weapon. I don't care what it would be, but something along the lines of a "Chainsaw" sounds fairly nice. It doesn't exactly have to be a chainsaw. In fact, it could be any sharpened kind of blade. Truthfully, I would rather prefer an "Axe" over the "Chainsaw". For some odd reason, I have this obsession with "Axes" and being able to swing the heavy scrap of metal over your head. Of course, one could notice that these weapons would only be good at close quarters. So, if at possible I would restrain myself from entering any wide spaces. Who knows what these Zombies could be capable of from far away placement. It all depends on how they interact with their enviroment, but I'd rather not be caught in any kind of fire-fight if somehow the situation occured. If possible, I would like to enter some type of enviroment that would allow me to hide out and avoid the situation at hand. I know, sounds cowardly, but I wouldn't stay in this position for that long.

Eventually, I would try to strike out with survival by moving from home to home. The Axe would come in handy for any sudden meetings. I can see it being good, seeing as they are deceased humans. If they wanted to get a close bite, it would allow a swing to be handed down on their heads. Therefore breaking any spinal cord and thoughts left behind in their already rotting brain. If the little rumors are true: Zombies can only be taken out by dismembering them, setting them a flame (Pawy, you're in luck XD), and shooting them straight in the head. Instead of using a gun, I would rather bring down a weight upon their skulls. Therefore crushing them and displacing any fragments of an organ left up there. If so, I would take another one right to the to of the back between the shoulder blades to rid them of their Spinal Cord. This would stop them from having any access to nerves at all.

If worse came to worse, I'd likely make some suicidal act to end everything. However, I just wouldn't take myself along alone. I'd be taking these "creatures" with me, but the ending would have to be something large to make certain of this. Strangely, it would be hard to find anything to make this possible. If so, it would have to require the use of some type of explosion. Likely if anything, something that would burn the very skin off their bones and any organs left inside of them. Though, I'd have to be in this with them. I wouldn't see a reason to live in the wild of it all, if the world was overrun with Zombies that is. There would be no true reason to live because everything as I would know it would be turn upside down. Likely, nothing would be able to contain it either. Since rumor wise, those types of diseases would be spread, "through the air" and as humans we seem to have a liking to this.

Seriously though, who wouldn't want to hear that wonderful crunch as you slam your "Axe" down upon the head of your undead foes.