Heroes Not Zombies

Today, April 1st, and, no, this is not a joke, is the Brisbane Zombie Walk when Australians dress up as zombies and stagger through the city! Of course, they have their own website and the organiser has a few wise words for any zombies who are intent on taking part. This particular piece of advice is wonderful –

Just because you’re undead doesn’t mean you can’t die

Becareful of traffic, obey the traffic lights as stringently as possible –
even if you think you can make it across before a car comes do not cross.
If you see anyone else doing this, please call out and stop them or at least
make sure it’s only them, a zombie mob knows how to work as a team.

Isn’t that great? Asking zombies to be aware of the traffic? A prime characteristic of the zombie lifestyle is being unaware of surroundings, so the organiser (desperately trying to prevent the undead from dying!) is quite right to be worried about this! However, another characteristic of a zombie lifestyle is obeying rules. In fact, that’s probably one of their strongest characteristics because they don’t do much thinking for themselves. So, I think traffic lights are NOT the zombie’s most vulnerable issue. They’re much more likely to just simply wander off the edge of the pavement!