Posted on 11/10/2013 12:47:09 PM PST by virgil283
“They need a truck with a snowplow “
You are clearly not from the South.
How about an 18 wheeler (preferably hauling diesel, although I’d drop the trailer back at the prison) with a big “v” Cowcatcher built on the front to “ice break” through zombies. Be easy to weld on.
Maybe these idiots can’t drive a standard transmission.
They can rig up something. Tyreese looks like Mr. T, and if Mr T could rig up a deathmobile for the A-Team, Tyreese can do it for the Apocolypse-team.
Wow, that’s pretty intense insight. What would you suggest to him on how to implement your strategy?
Start fencing in large areas and funneling them down like you do fish in a stream using Indian methods.
Or how they captured whole herds of buffalo.
That's more like it. Better than that Yugo or whatever they drive now.
And no, I am not from the south. Where I'm from this apocalypse would go on until winter, when the zombies would freeze solid. Then the tide would be turned, as humans armed with an axe, cross country skis, and a thermos of hot chocolate would dispatch the zombiecicles at their leisure. The TV series would end at their Christmas special.
I’ve never understood the fixation with heading south on these shows aside from eliminating the need to provide fuel for warmth.
I personally would head for Beaver Island on lake Michigan. The current living population is under 700 people and if you can gather 50 people you could clear that zombified population pretty quickly. I’m assuming the MI winter would cause the zombies to freeze up for easy elimination and there would be plenty of game on the mainland.
I would lead them into buildings, and then burn the buildings down. If they were in an area where the forests would burn, I'd lead them there, and burn the whole forest.
You and I are on the same page as far as the advantages of the north are concerned.
Even without zombies there are certain practicalities about being in the north in the event of a societal collapse. The ease of food storage is a big one the fools running south are another.
“Where I’m from this apocalypse would go on until winter, when the zombies would freeze solid. “
I’ve pondered if the cellular damage from freezing would kill a zombie, since each cell bursts. Or perhaps zombies are filled with some sort of anti-freeze?
Anyway, one more mistake the survivors are making is not experimenting with zombies.
For example, get a freezer going in the prison. See if it thaws out.
See if they can go up or down stairs. Same with ladders.
See if they can smell.
See if they run from fire or walk through it.
Figure out if they have color vision, can smell, what they can hear.
Figure out if they are visible on a infra-red scope.
See how long they can go without eating.
Test them on basic shit like opening a door (lever vs. knob).
I’d be a regular zombie Dr. Menegele on their asses.
Ahhh, never thought of Mr. T........good catch.
He holds that weapon like some street hoodie gangsta.
Someone should show him the correct way to hold and shoot a weapon that size.
Next thing you know, he’ll be holding it sideways, just like he’s in da hood!
I live WAY up in the mountains (10,000 elevation at my house — town is 8600 ft in the valley below).
My house is built into the mountains — not cantilevered over a cliff, but my basement is literally a cave. It’s 40 degrees in the winter and maybe 50 in the summer. Dry as a bone. I’ve often thought it pretty ideal for long term storage.
I could stop rampaging zombie herds (of the real kind, or the story kind with a well-placed tree fell onto a bridge over a critical gorge.
I was hoping that the scientist from Woodbury would end up with the group. He would have been a valuable asset at the prison. Too bad the Governor kilt him.
His biggest mistake, last week, making Carol leave. He’s done just as bad, his child has done just as bad, but he made her go out all alone. wrong!
Using what and where do they get the heavy equipment? Back in the city where the Grateful Dead concert goers are walking down the street?
Right now there's safety in numbers and the zombies have the numbers..........
All over. Every little down has a dozen. Road crews. Etc.
And there just aren’t that many walkers outside the fence.
Get everyone together at the fence every morning and have a slaying party to thin the numbers. Have a rotating shift where it is always someone’s job to kill every walker on the fence.
It’s not like they breed; you could easily reduce local numbers and stay on top of it.
There was one (infected) inside the fighting compartment and the rest were outside, nowhere in evidence, when they disappeared. Or dragged out of the hatches while unbuttoned. Looked like they got caught away from the tank. Otherwise there's have been four live crewmen, or four bodies, or no one at all inside the tank.
Then again this is Walking Dead, not real life. There were M2s with belts in them in the positions in front of the CDC.
Shhhhhhhh, don't blow the plan! FWIW, I'm bringing the bacon, chips and pretzels. If you see a small personal watercraft waiving a "Better Made" flag off its bow, it's me............
“There were M2s with belts in them in the positions in front of the CDC.”
Perhaps they set the head space incorrectly.*
* Obscure Army reference.
“He holds that weapon like some street hoodie gangsta.”
Well, the actor is British. Probably the first real weapon he’s held.
Nice pistol, though. .357 Colt Python.
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