New Zealand’s brain injury charity says it didn’t mean to cause offence by planning a “zombie walk” to raise money for victims of brain damage.
The charity and the event’s organisers have come under fire after inviting participants to dress up and “channel their inner zombie”, declaring “seeing zombies have been eating brains all these years, we figured it’s time we gave back”. The highlight of the fundraiser, to be held in Rotorua later this month, will be a “flash mob” zombie dance to the tune of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” down the main street.
Both broadcaster TVNZ and Rotorua’s Daily Post newspaper say they have received complaints from people with brain injuries, saying they were “horrified” at being linked to shuffling corpses returned from the grave. Discussion forums on the Trade Me website are also riddled with criticism of the event.
But Brain Injury New Zealand president John Clough said no offence was intended and they certainly were not likening brain injury patients to the undead.
“The zombie is a fictional character in horror movies that does not exist,” Clough said.
“The organisers have just tried to capture people’s imaginations to raise money, not to offend anyone. It’s very hard to convince people to part with their hard-earned cash and this is just one way of getting attention,” Clough said.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth…or a zombie in the eye.
One of the lesser known historical facts, Britain’s earliest colonial inhabitants of New Zealand were in fact Zombies reanimated from a plague pit in Essex in 1867 by a gypsy witch of Maldon.
Zombies suck at social events. Have you ever met one at a party? It’s all about them. And the crap they eat. Fried flesh chips and brain dip. My sister went out with one in high school. After one date she was a zombie too. I don’t think she’s taken a bath since either. Man she reeks.
I’ve long wanted to start a fund-raising campaign: “Cough up some dough for CF.”
Thats really odd. People actually concerned about brain injured people not thinking a Zombie themed event might be offensive. Talk about your brain injuries.
Ha, ha. Silly Hoomans.
Try to stay focused Alfie…I know it’s difficult for you.
What I suggest is that each person locate a charity that they trust and try to support it in a meaningful manner.
I picked out _God’s store house_ which is a local charity that feeds people. I personally know the people that run it and I’m confident the money gets spent on helping people.
Support the cause you believe in.
#8 Alfie – Not everything need be a forum for your (often) ridiculous political rants. When we discuss politics, fine, rant away.
#1 Sargasso – Okay, fine. But how do you explain the people on the SOUTH island? (Nice paragraph. You wanna write for Fox?)
#2 Monster’s Law – Sorry to hear about your sister. On the good side, zombies have a very low teen pregnancy rate.
I thought this story was about zombies, not trolls…
How can dead people possibly walk around? The eyeballs would dry up almost immediately, and the blood no longer flows in their arteries. They are, actually, lifeless, and immobile. Their senses, operating on electo-chemical signals, cease to function. Their brains no longer harbor the necessary elector-chemical interactions. So they can’t move around and do stuff.
You dummies.
I absolutely HATE those fast moving zombies, and the ones that can learn to shoot guns and what not. Everyone knows Darwin dies with you and Zombies are only good for slowly going after your brain, or making anti-Obama screeds=same thing.
# 14 Faxon : “eyeballs would dry up almost immediately, and the blood no longer flows” Faxon, have you ever had a cold? Notice how that virus makes your nose run like Angel Falls? The zombie virus (H1Z1) works similarly keeping the membranes juicy and uncoagulating the blood.
“electo-chemical signals, cease to function” All those synapse chemicals are still there in a corpse just inactivated. The H1Z1 virus is able to partially reactivate these chemicals, although it’s not completely efficient, which accounts for the stumbling gait, garbled speech, faulty logic, etc.
Faxon, the semi-active electro-chemical pathways account for the absurd hunger for brains. The reanimated corpses are desperately trying to resupply the essential chemical components.
Also, they’re delicious.
#17 – I swear she said she was 18!!! Wait a minute – is your sister Thai ???
#18 AnimalBee – No, she just smells that way.