The Tab

So Imagine, if you will, that it is late at night.  You’re walking the streets of downtown %insert closest city name here% and you happen to hear some noises up ahead.  Listening carefully, it sounds like a mass of footsteps (however sounds slightly strange, more like they’re dragging their feet), some groaning (orgy… what?!), and something about brains (…… I got nothing).  Wondering what is going on you run up ahead and take a quit turn around the corner and HOLY WALKING DEAD BATMAN!!!! a giant mob of humanoid figures swarming towards you!

Flesh from the teeth, organs swaying in the wind, rotted faces, smell of decomposition wafting in the air, hobbling its way to you with its right arm being held by the left, and an eternal appetite that can’t be satisfied.  May remind you of an ex-girlfriend!

So this night may have very well been one of the most interesting nights I have ever witnessed.  A crowd well in the hundreds, dressed up as zombies, roaming the streets of down town Phoenix!  I can’t think of a cooler way to start off my Halloween weekend.

Something that made me lol like no other, was the fact that this was also the same night as the La Lakers and PHX Suns game (Here in Phoenix XD!!!).  The path even went around the stadium!  Those people from La must think we’re a city full of weirdo’s!  And can you imagine the reaction from the people trying to make their way to the stadium and having to fight a crowd of ZOMBIES!  The poor souls stuck in stuck in traffic, now late for the big NBA game, innocent by standards getting washed away in the horde of costumed freaks.  It was simply epic!

They were even getting police escorts around town, roads getting blocked for this massive crowd of undead.  Though on that note, I actually talked to one of the cops (it was a cop on a bicycle so I’m not sure if his opinion really matters XP ) and you could tell he wasn’t too thrilled about it.  Simply asked the guy what he thought of this event, and I got an answer like he had been rehearsing it all week.  Granted the guy has probably been asked the same question a lot throughout the night, but whatever.

To make the night even more epic though, they had a place where everyone met up at after the walk was over, and had tons more entertainment going on.  Live music (kind of jazzy =D ), Classic horror silent films, those giant inflatable slides and bouncy things for the kids (granted at this point they were probably glued to their parents sides terrified they’d be eaten), and some strange little train thing for the happy meals… err children, that just drove around in circles or into unsuspecting citizens.

Granted this has also been an educational night for me.  I learned quite a few things today like:

1)      You should put a waypoint or something on the maps of that smartphone you happen to carry around so you don’t wonder the entire city trying to remember where you parked >.<

2)      Knowing you’re going to be walking all over town you should be smarter and wear more comfortable shoes… with support, and padding… not chucks

3)      Bringing a jacket “just in case” is stupid! You’re in the fucking desert moron!

4)      When (notice I’m not saying if) the zombie apocalypse strikes, shoot yourself.  There is no way to survive it!!! (not here at least)

I state number four because of what I saw tonight.  If we were to break out in full blown resident evil here in Phoenix, there would be no way to escape it!  The numbers of the group just tonight was astonishing when you see said group actually cramped in the city streets.  I witnessed hundreds of people stuffed in these streets and a small sense of panic started to come over me!

If this hits here, the streets will be filled with numbers way beyond what was seen tonight.  Then people trying to escape the city would flood the roads (as would our zombie friends) so accidents on any road out of the city are inevitable, so there goes any way really out.  You’re not about to try and make your way out on foot, not with those numbers that we have here.  You’d be lucky to last 5 minutes.  I could imagine trying to stay in your house, but that would be short lived as they ram through your door and flood your place……

I am now rambling, but it brings up the fact I have some serious work to do on my Z plans… All of them!! >.<  (Yes I have many survival plans in the case of a zombie outbreak (don’t judge))

Pictures have been uploaded to the Facebook Page as well as some videos.  I see no need in linking since the only people that I’m aware of that read this are already subscribed to that page =p