Cardio.

seat belts.

Half caff and half decaff mocha latte with soy milk.

Don't forget your juggernog

Flamethrowers are useless for combating zombies. Shotguns and pistols are good, but the ammo is heavy and they attract too much attention.

Ummmm, if the zombie apocalypse does hit... can I come over to your place?

Let's not forget the cricket mallets and Winchesters.

1. Shotguns are a scatter-based weapon, kind of useless for Zombies, which require precision kills (head shots)

2. Flamethrowers? You need to shoot the brain! The only thing worse than zombies are FLAMING ZOMBIES. They don't feel pain, and they take a long time to burn...DUH

3. Do you really own the Zombie Survival Guide? Because it doesn't seem like it.

Wrong, shotguns are excellent close range weapons, will deal a lethal blow.

Flamethrowers will blind the zombies.

You're both mistaken.

I would think a flamethrower would melt a zombie to uselessness, they work pretty good on people.

Brian-- shotguns are fine, up close (where you don't really want to be, but...) because it will blow enormous holes in them and can take off limbs. BTW-- ever see someone shot in the head at close range with a shotgun? It's not pretty. Nothing left but a stump.

Flamethrowers are pretty useless, I agree. Same with Molotov cocktails. Instead of crazy, roving zombies, you now have flaming, roving zombies that can ignite anything flammable that they happen to run into. Now, if you set a trap and burn a bunch of zombies in a controlled, inescapable death pit-- that's another matter altogether. It's a good idea to burn their bodies too (after dispatching them with a nice shot to the head).

Here's the biggest problem: guns are noisy, and are likely to arouse unwanted attention. While slow to reload, a crossbow can be a more handy weapon as it's quiet and has good range. Not much use in a close quarters fight, though. A silenced assault rifle or hunting rifle is good too, but even "silenced" they make a good deal of noise (around 130 db).

Keep those machetes and katanas handy-- but beware blood-borne pathogens. Getting into the nitty-gritty with the undead is likely to result in some severe infections, even if you aren't bitten. Armor is also not advised-- you don't want to be too slow. But, if you're stout enough, chainmail can be a good way to keep those teeth from gnoshing too deeply...

Dear all

Thank you so much for your feedback. Obviously some of you know nothing about shotguns. You're thinking about shotguns used in hunting and loaded with birdshot. I'm talking about tactical shotguns that have a very tight pattern when using law enforcement loads like double-aught ("OO") buckshot. Standard load is 8, 32 caliber rounds. For really serious work we use "deer slugs" which is a single 50 caliber round of soft lead. A tactical shotgun using deer slugs is accurate at a little over 50 yards. If you've got a semi-automatic shotgun like mine, no need to pump to load the next round. You can empty the extended magazine in less than 8 seconds.

The flamethrower is to be used to clear the field of fire and discourage non-zombies interlopers.

Elysam, if you are a 5'6", blue-eyed, nordic blonde, dead ringer for Scarlett Johanson or a tall, proud, black woman who is often mistaken for Halle Barry then yes, I'll find room for you in my bunker. Otherwise please note the explanation of the flamethrower.

A titanium crowbar with the points sharpened, or a nicely sharpened shovel would be my melee weapon of choice.

Skip, you doubtless have a great deal of shotgun knowledge. I still contend that aside from being used as a weapon of last resort, the ammo is too heavy and the discharge is too noisy to work well in the open. WMG is correct, a bow or cross bow would really be ideal. I cant personally shoot a bow, but I can work a cross bow. Reloading is tough, but it would restrict you from a free fire situation, you have to only shoot when you need to.

Seems to me that clever concealment and bear traps would work better than flamethrowers for static defense. Fire is a netural arbiter in that it burns everyone.

FYI, zombies cannot be blinded, eyes are the first things to rot out.

shotguns are good. you don't have to be as accurate when you aim for the head.

flamethrowers are good in a situation where you have the zombies contained. eventually the head will burn up. also, it will sterilize the area. just don't use them if the zombies can reach you.

find a crossbow or bow and arrow. you can keep your distance, re-usable ammo, and won't attract as much attention.

Lunchbox, you've sparked an idea.

Beartraps in conjunction with flame (or flamethrowers) would keep them still long enought to burn. That is, unless you give them enough time to gnaw through their leg.

Which brings me to, why don't zombies eat other zombies?

Well, classic Zombie lore indicates that they need to eat the brains of the living-- once the brains have been eaten, the discarded corpse is animated by an Evil Force to join the ranks of the other undead. So, the other Zombies, in other words, don't have the brains to be eaten.

Not all zombies are missing brains.

From the folks who brought you the NEW AND IMPROVED Bubonic Plague and the Ebola Virus

Plague, yes. Ebola didn't need improving, the Zaire strain was already over 90% fatal. They played around with the Reston strain, which only affected monkeys, and Marburg, which is very similar to Ebola.

We don't have to worry about zombies, the CDC will kill us eventually.

You Must Know the Truth

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This will help you understand wabgob.com

"I need TP for my bunghole!"

God, you need a sense of humor!

I applaud this guy for drawing the attention of youth to a portal that preaches health safety and preparedness. If only all government divisions practiced this level of comfort when dealing with the public, we'd have some degree of dialogue between the people and their government.

Ohhh You know what the govenment is going to do when all hell breaks loose they will hide in the bunkers they used our tax money to build and let us fend for our selfs as always. When it is all over they come out of their holes that we paid for.

True dat, and good point.

Maybe they are so hip they never expected more than 50 hits at any one time.

Better red than dead.

Fail.

Fail, part 2.

You really want to get within arms reach of the undead??