What the... things are gettin really weird

[HughJeffin Byrd]

http://rt.com/usa/news/maine-zombie-apocalypse-drill-630/

mergency officials in Maine have taken part in a training exercise in preparation for a zombie apocalypse. This comes just weeks after the federal government publicly denied the existence of zombies.

­Around 100 emergency responders from eight different counties participated in the event in the quiet city of Bangor.

The premise: an unknown virus originating from Jamaica has reached Maine, turning the infected into zombies. Once infected, the virus quickly spreads to the brain, and turns the host into a full-fledged zombie, who has only one thing on its mind: biting other people.

The officials were armed with two would-be vaccines – one to prevent the infection from reaching the brain, and one to bring the zombies back to life.

“We have identified in several states, particularly Texas, New York, Illinois outbreaks of these civil disturbances and biting,” one official said. “And in conjunction with that there are also widespread power outages.”

The event may have been a staged act, with locals playing zombies, but it gave emergency responders an opportunity to prepare for a real life epidemic.

“This gives us the opportunity to do something a little bit different, but it still has the same principles that would apply in a real situation,” Kathy Knight, director of the Northeastern Maine Regional Resource Center told the Bangor Daily News. Emergency workers "need to figure out what they need, how they’re going to respond and how they are going to share their resources to respond to the disaster. They need to know who to go to outside their community to find the resources they don’t have, so it’s a different twist.”

The training exercise comes just several weeks after the US Center for Disease Control publicly denied the existence of zombies.

Rumors of a “zombie apocalypse” have been on the rise after a series of disturbing incidents.

In Florida, police caught a naked man chewing on the face of another person. They eventually shot him dead after unsuccessfully trying to push him away from the victim.

In Maryland, an engineering student allegedly stabbed a man to death and ate his heart and brain.

In Canada, a porn actor was detained on charges that he had killed and dismembered his lover. He is alleged to have recorded a video of himself copulating with some of the body parts, and consuming others. He is also suspected of sending the limbs of the victim to the headquarters of political parties, as well as two schools in Vancouver.

[Marj1st]

I knew it!

First a guy eats another guys face off, and here we go... no mention of bath salts!

[rothsdad]

We are in the Twilight Zone!

[respectron]

Uumm!!!

[TRERUMPH]

GIGIDY GIGIDY !!!!!!!!

[krome2ez]

Next quarter 1st responder training schedule includes

how to handle Vampires, Werewolfs, and Mummys.

CDC has increased thier inventory of silver bullets and holy water by 1500%.

Additional training has been also scheduled with locals in affected areas.

Officials are warning everyone to lock thier doors and stay inside.

[Shabibilicious]

This sounds like a cool new theme for our next patio party at the lodge.........I will bring it up at the next meeting.

GO RV, then BV

[smee2]

If authorities were really interested in providing some "practical" practice, I would suggest they get together and read the book ... "Puppet Masters" by Robert H. Heinlein. Not, repeat, NOT the movie by the same name. It has nothing in common with the book really. But the book, now, that would be beneficial.

In it the world is visited by a spaceship ... well, hey, they ARE working on a rather far fetched premise, right? Anyway, crates of blobby things later referred to as "masters" land and start taking over, as a zombie would do, right? Okay, these blobby things can "ride" on a person's sholders, and by means of tendrils going into the human, can take over all functions like movement, communication, etc. The "authorities" find out about it, and some try to stop the invasion. But the blobby things are taking over faster than the humans can find them and get rid of them. They hide under people's clothing. They can change their shape so that even when humans have to skin down to undies they are hiding under bra straps or fruit of the loom boxers, or briefs for that matter. The story goes on.

In the end, the blobby things are able to hide in a woman's handbag and just reach up a tendril to her wrist to be in control. Whooooo!!! Really scary stuff. And the US is trying to clear its own area of these "puppet masters" while watching other parts of the globe, some that admit to the problem, and some that don't ... Russia of course this being a rather old book. But, at the end, there is only one way to get rid of the invaders. Trying to sneak up on them and inject the hosts does no good at all. Anyone trying that, which seens to be what this "exercise" posted here is doing, is doomed to failure. And that is why the people putting on such exercises should be reading this book: to find out what else, something so obvious, could be in play, and mean they have to adjust their tactics.

How do they get rid of the invaders? the zombie makers? They introduce a virus that spreads about as fast as the takeover and thereby kills off the creatures. But, they can never be sure the creatures are all gone. Some recluse mountain man could be harbouring one of them and when he comes down to the city for supplies, why he could start up the entire thing all over again. So, by the end of the book, people are out migrating from earth, of course, and those staying here are getting used to very little clothing and checking each other for the beasties that turn them into ... "zombies" ... or in the lexicon of Mr. Heinlein and the day ... "Puppets" ... hence the creatures being called "Puppet Masters".

So who was in charge of this exercise? I should really send them a copy of the book!

smee2

[jonjon]

Two zombies were wondering around in my back yard last night. I wouldn’t have known but they both entered the corner while following different sides of the fence. They bumped into each other over and over like a record skipping and the slapping together of their bodies woke me up. It went on until daylight but when the sun came up they disintegrated and turned into dust.

[wpsmit]

Guess I don't need to read the book now. Thanks!

[lost one]

Guess I don't need to read the book now. Thanks!

I here that!!!!! ...RV Some time before the myan calendar expires

Edited June 25, 2012 by lost one

[Snotrocket]

I just change out the word ZOMBIES with OBAMA SUPPORTERS and the whole article makes perfect sense!

[Shabibilicious]

A small group of zombies were wandering the streets aimlessly in a haphazard search for food. One of the zombies became tired of their plight and decided they needed a plan. He proclaimed himself the leader of the group...."I am now the brains of this outfit. Follow me if you want to eat", he grunted. So the others ate him.

GO RV, then BV

[dog53]

Hey. Zombes gota eat too

[umbertino]

Scary stuff.

[cris]

If authorities were really interested in providing some "practical" practice, I would suggest they get together and read the book ... "Puppet Masters" by Robert H. Heinlein. Not, repeat, NOT the movie by the same name. It has nothing in common with the book really. But the book, now, that would be beneficial.

In it the world is visited by a spaceship ... well, hey, they ARE working on a rather far fetched premise, right? Anyway, crates of blobby things later referred to as "masters" land and start taking over, as a zombie would do, right? Okay, these blobby things can "ride" on a person's sholders, and by means of tendrils going into the human, can take over all functions like movement, communication, etc. The "authorities" find out about it, and some try to stop the invasion. But the blobby things are taking over faster than the humans can find them and get rid of them. They hide under people's clothing. They can change their shape so that even when humans have to skin down to undies they are hiding under bra straps or fruit of the loom boxers, or briefs for that matter. The story goes on.

In the end, the blobby things are able to hide in a woman's handbag and just reach up a tendril to her wrist to be in control. Whooooo!!! Really scary stuff. And the US is trying to clear its own area of these "puppet masters" while watching other parts of the globe, some that admit to the problem, and some that don't ... Russia of course this being a rather old book. But, at the end, there is only one way to get rid of the invaders. Trying to sneak up on them and inject the hosts does no good at all. Anyone trying that, which seens to be what this "exercise" posted here is doing, is doomed to failure. And that is why the people putting on such exercises should be reading this book: to find out what else, something so obvious, could be in play, and mean they have to adjust their tactics.

How do they get rid of the invaders? the zombie makers? They introduce a virus that spreads about as fast as the takeover and thereby kills off the creatures. But, they can never be sure the creatures are all gone. Some recluse mountain man could be harbouring one of them and when he comes down to the city for supplies, why he could start up the entire thing all over again. So, by the end of the book, people are out migrating from earth, of course, and those staying here are getting used to very little clothing and checking each other for the beasties that turn them into ... "zombies" ... or in the lexicon of Mr. Heinlein and the day ... "Puppets" ... hence the creatures being called "Puppet Masters".

So who was in charge of this exercise? I should really send them a copy of the book!

smee2

Excellent book smee....I've read it several times.....Im a big Heinlein fan

[E A Poe]

I just change out the word ZOMBIES with OBAMA SUPPORTERS and the whole article makes perfect sense!

Ha! Change out the word ZOMBIES with POLITICIANS and the whole thing makes sense!!

[dog53]

Hey change the word zombies to Justin Beeber look alikes and it makes no sense at all. Just saying