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Originally Posted by guthmund
Well, after reading some of the responses and re-visiting the thread, I feel a bit better.
I guess I shouldn't laugh or get too upset apparently zombie attacks are all too real.
Dan Birlew did a fabulous write up over at gamefaqs.com. Not your typical "news" site, but then again being arrested for writing zombie fiction isn't exactly your typical "news" story.
It seems that in 1996 a small town in the midwest by the name of Raccoon City was completely decimated by an experiment gone wrong at an Umbrella Corporation laboratory that turned the townspeople and all their pets into ravenous brain-seeking zombies. It was only thanks to the tremendous efforts of Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine that the story was brought to the publics' attention.
Seriously. The grandparents, the prosecutor who brought charges and the judge who sent the guy to jail are all "challenged." They should all have to resign their jobs effective immediately and be shipped to a moderate sized tropical island somewhere far, far away. Those of us with a bit of common sense are tired of hearing stories like this and tired of people like you being put in charge of the 'serious' business of having children and participating in the judicial system. You'll make lots of new friends on "Idiot Island;" the boat leaves immediately.
There. I'm really, really done.
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And if there were any cosmic justice, it would be an island overrun with the living dead, like in any number of Italian zombie flicks.
This shit reminds me of the time I got reprimanded in third grade because I drew swastikas in a picture. It was silly because I was drawing a bunch of American soldiers blowing up Nazis, and to get the point across that they were, in fact, Nazis, I figured the most expedient way would be to draw the symbol that everyone associates with them.
Not nearly as extreme of a reaction as this, but perhaps this kind of thought process has been slowly simmering to a boil over the past couple decades?