Reactions

I really liked the reactions too. They ranged from a puzzled WTF look to OMG that is so cool.. Though I did hear one older woman say to her husband, "My god look at these people don't they have anything better to do than dress up like fools and bother us?" I just shouted "Brains" at her and kept moving along!

I would imagine if you were a psych major you could have written a paper on this. just seeing the people not involved. I saw many people taking pictures with camera phones as well. One guy was decribing the even to whoever he was talking to on his phone. the most puzzling comment I heard was from some guy eating at a resturaunt "Hey do you guys need some money? You know this is a cash socity and you need cash" I just didn't underand his comment at all.

Watching the reaction was the best part. Especially the people who just didn't now what to make of it.

[DAV333]

The walk, besides just being a lot of fun, was an interesting experiment in the ways all of the non-zombies, or pre-zombies as I liked to think of them, responded. I hope there were a lot of reactions captured on film. There were the random west end families at the park. Many were smiling, while others looked pretty concerned, uptight, and disapproving. “Those people are clearly trouble.” There was the guy in the black car who nervously tapped his steering wheel and looked back at us every few seconds, obviously really upset with what was happening. Why? I’m not sure. Maybe his sister was trampled to death in a zombie walk from another city. In Cary Town, an older couple were completely ignoring us while shopping. “I knew we should have gone to Short Pump.” Don’t encourage them seemed to be their mentality, I guess. From one vehicle a girl called out, “I heart zombies!” I was called crazy a few times, but the most interesting reaction happened outside The Village. I really hope it was filmed. Some guy got off his bar stool and walked out to scream and cuss us out. “Everybody is out today to have a good time and have fun. Why do you assholes have to ruin it? You come out here dressed like you just got in an auto accident, all bloody and gross and I want to know why,” was close to some of the things he said, but I don’t really remember. He made me really mad. I yelled back at him about us not hurting anyone and we were having a good time until he got in our faces. I wished I hadn’t lost my cool, but he was really rude. I should have just stayed in character, “Brains?”

Whether enjoying or despising the event, it was really special the way it broke people out of their everyday life and made it a day remembered forever.

[to bad]

the guy in the black car works for the mall he is the one that brought Henrico Police to the park to discourage yall from coming to the mall. His plan if that had not worked was to follow u guys to where ever it was yall were going to park and immediately throw you off the mall property. And now your probably wondering how he knew where u guys were going to stage at before coming to the mall. Well about last week sometime he signed up to join the walk so he knew all the updated plans so he could spoil the stupid gathering. then on that morning he contacted a few Henrico buddies about when and where the staging point was gonna be and if you were there u know the rest of the story. And I must say he was a bit surprised to see all the attention seekers when he arrived standing around thinking how koooool it was gonna be to go to a mall and have everyone there looking at yall thinking WTF is going on. even if yall had made it to the mall they were pretty prepared to take care of business.

[self-identified zombie]

It absolutely amazes me that people have nothing better, or worse for that matter, in their lives to worry about that a group of people celebrating the Halloween season in a perfectly peaceful fashion. Granted most of the people we encountered really enjoyed us and many have hopes of joining in next year, there are always those few people who just can’t let people have fun, what harm is there in a group of people walking around a mall albeit dressed like the living dead, they let the mall walkers in every morning and I can attest that many of them resemble the living dead too! What would entice an obvious alcoholic to leave his bar stool to pick a fight with a hoard/gaggle/pack/mob (choose your own adjective here I’m not sure how one refers to zombie masses) of zombies? How does our appearance have any effect on his life? Why does he care what we look like? However what really bothered me was the interest we raised with the Henrico P.D. by gathering in a public park, Each cop we encountered did begin his speech with, “I don’t have a problem with ya’ll bein’ here but…” well apparently they must have had a problem with us being there or we would not have ever been approached. Unless of course they go up to everyone in the park and proclaim they have no problem with them being there. Somehow I doubt the man jogging with his dog or furthermore the father with the little girl on the tricycle heard anything remotely similar to that uttered, “Sir I just wanted to let you and your daughter who is illegally ridding her bike on the sidewalk at this moment, that I have no problem with ya’ll bein’ here”. It is sad that our public spaces aren’t even public anymore. I hope Short Pump doesn’t arrest too many children on Halloween for not conforming to the upscale image the Corporate Mecca is trying to portray. I hate to break it to them but that space has been infested with real zombies long before we ever thought of gracing it with our presence. Consume….Consume….Consume….

[S.I. Zombie Gurl]

Ha Ha, I bet that pathetic little Short Pump rent a cop feels like a big man, he infiltrated the evil zombie group that was threatening to WALK around his mall. Maybe one day he will grow up and be a real cop. I know I feel much safer knowing he is protecting Short Pump mall for us in the meantime, that’s a job you should feel proud of at the end of the day.

for the comment above, thats fine, but dont be upset cause your plans got trashed cause someone else out-smarted you guys and you didnt get to have all the attention you lame people dressed up for from the people at the mall. Enough said

Plans ruined? Absolutely not, we had a great time! I guess your “creative” spelling is also a result of your illiteracy so you have missed all the posts talking about how much fun we had. (Too is spelled with two ‘o’s’ in the context you are using it in, my friend. I’ll save you the humiliation of pointing out all of the other errors you have made in your post. But you should at least be able to spell your moniker correctly before you engage in a battle of the wits). Cary Town was the perfect venue everyone seemed to have fun and I would much rather support the local stores than the corporate stores hawking their sweat shop produced wares. (Yes, the zombies did patronize the stores.) Our fearless leader Roger had back up plans because he fully anticipated someone working as a rent a cop at Short Pump mall might be capable of using the Internet as unbelievable as that seems. Despite the change of location, the general consensus is fun was had by all. I can’t wait to do it again next year. Although a rent a cop walk at Short Pump is currently in the works….check out www.wannabecopwalk.com :twisted:

[supremenothing]

If by failure you mean we simply made a minor change and wound having much more fun than we would have had at the mall, well then, we failed, but what a magnifcent failure it was!

But I tend to think the only reason you're posting disparaging non-resgistered posts is because it's eating you up that we not only had a great time, but easily 95% (with the remaining 5% consisting of humorless people who ironically are deader inside than any of us zombies) of the witnesses had nearly as much fun on the sidelines. Welcome to the 5%, by the way.




I also predict that the next Richmond zombie walk, wherever it is, will be at least three times bigger.

[S.I. Zombie Gurl]

Hmm guess I should have registered before posting but anyways I did not want to appear as if I was hiding behind a “guest” tag so S.I. Zombie gurl is the same as self-identified zombie I just couldn’t fit the whole thing due to the space constraints. I chose self-identified because I wore a shirt that simply said zombie on the walk and one of the spectators commented. “Well at least she is self identified.” The post including the www.wannabecopwalk.com was mine too….get out your artificial pig noses and doughnuts guys, this is going to be a blast! HAHA!

[Academic Zombie]

Lets get away from the moron who not only cannot have fun, but apparently can't see other people having fun, or he goes mad with ... crazy? Who knows. Anyway, the best part had to be the little girl who jumped at a car we had been mobbing and growled at it. It was so cute! I applaud the parents of that free-minded child, for she will surely someday rule the world. That, and when I asked a group of people if they had brains, they said, "No! No brains here!" I'm no sure they were trying to fool me or themselves. :)

Ya know, they feel all big for stopping you guys, but they could never hold off a REAL zombie invasion. They'll get theirs in the end.