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Hi.

All these news stories regarding the worrying amount of insane face eating zombie imitating weirdos has got me worried, and whilst I doubt it will get worse than a slight nuisance, and definately not a full scale disaster, I do feel it would be a good idea to have a zombie survival plan in place.

Small problem though. I live in the UK, and unlike America, where firearms are easy to come by, and Japan, with museums and even shops with decent swords (or so I'm told), getting effective zombie-slaying weapons over here is not easy.

How do the Dakka community suggest I survive the inevitable hordes of dim witted, decaying reanimated corpses? By the looks of things the zombie virus isn't contagious, so less need to worry about the consequence of wounds.

Castle + Cricket Bat = PROFIT!

You be dashing

You have access to one of the best weapons known to man. A Car.

A 1-2 ton hunk of steel that can go up to 100+ MPH.

By the UK closing its borders and hoping zombies can't fly.

Since we're an island nation, the zombies will have to travel underwater. Unless they can swim, the intense pressure at the bottom of the sea will obliterate them and/or they'll get eaten by marine wildlife.

1-2 ton hunk of steel that can go up to 100+ MPH.

hhmmmm till you need to refuel

Avatar 720 wrote:By the UK closing its borders and hoping zombies can't fly.

Since we're an island nation, the zombies will have to travel underwater. Unless they can swim, the intense pressure at the bottom of the sea will obliterate them and/or they'll get eaten by marine wildlife.

We royally buggered ourselves by agreeing to the channel tunnel though...


But to anwser OP:

Decent western swords, maces, spears, sheilds, chainmail, etc.
Muskets!
Guns (just not as many and harder to access)
Cannons
Castles
Bagpipes (north of the border)
the weather

You have the most feared weapon in the history of mankind just laying around there and you come to us asking what to do?

Haggis.

Frazzled wrote:You have the most feared weapon in the history of mankind just laying around there and you come to us asking what to do?

Haggis.

Thou shalt not blaspheme with the name of the Haggis!

Haggis and pole pitching!!

Go to the country. Everyone and their mums are packing heat.

The royal guards will probably just drive them out.

The zombies or the living city folks trying to get out?

First one then the other? At least the Chavs.

Use the chav's as bait and then afterwards make them clean the streets to earn a honest wage?

I say the scottish government makes scratch companies of all the crazy neds we seem to have in abundant supplies that (given enough buckie) would be spoiling for a fight with them died folk' ower there

failing that the Shetalnds and Faroe Islands should be isolated enough to survive

Well a real zombie apocalypse is probably more likely than the second part of that.

They would make excellent bait though.

Or concentrate on acquiring container shps or whatever floats your boat and migrate over to the US/Canada

FM Ninja 048 wrote:

Avatar 720 wrote:By the UK closing its borders and hoping zombies can't fly.

Since we're an island nation, the zombies will have to travel underwater. Unless they can swim, the intense pressure at the bottom of the sea will obliterate them and/or they'll get eaten by marine wildlife.

We royally buggered ourselves by agreeing to the channel tunnel though...

On the contrary, we can rig it with kersplosives and nuke a large amount of zeds as they shuffle through it, then seal it up.

http://www.amazon.ca/The-Zombie-Survival-Guide-Protection/dp/1400049628



My plan is fairly simple.

Hide in the attic.
break into neighboring units for supplies til the electricity runs out.
once power dies get onto the power cables and head to costco (big warehouse, no windows except the main entrace which has security gates and big roof for plants)

you'd think in the UK you'd get a crossbow and find a castle to hold up in.

The problem with your plan though is most people, while the initial panic is going down, would head to places like Costco to loot some supplies. Best case scenario, It's picked clean or some people have turned it into a small community and have everything rationed out for everyone to last for a while.

Worst case scenario, some infected walk in with the looting crowd, Costco is now Zombie HQ.

Why go to the store while you can go to the ditribution warehouses.

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removed a suggestion incase you all get crazy for weapons

Buy a crossbow, they are only like £100.

Also buy a hatchet, a good hunting knife and a woodsplitting maul.

And maybe a shotgun... They are expensive are hard to get hold of though.

If weapons are to get over in UK what about the ammo?

Iur_tae_mont wrote:The problem with your plan though is most people, while the initial panic is going down, would head to places like Costco to loot some supplies. Best case scenario, It's picked clean or some people have turned it into a small community and have everything rationed out for everyone to last for a while.

Worst case scenario, some infected walk in with the looting crowd, Costco is now Zombie HQ.

if its already a community I show up and help out.
if its a walking dead zone, I can work from the high roof and tall shelving units to get supplies I need and work on clearing them out.

it really depends on how thoroughly it got picked clean, there's one withing 3 miles of my house and its got a huge propane tank for refills, a auto shop, and a indoor kitchen. But I'd be more interested in the garden section, how many people would take the dirt and seeds? or all the generators? it would still be worth the trip to get there and see whats up with it. The whole trip is a 3 mile strip of strip malls, and a large mall.

the main reason to hold up is to see if the military can get the situation under control, no point rushing out first thing and risk getting killed when it could all blow over in a day or two. Plus with the town I'm in being smallish no place is open 24 hours. so if the outbreak starts in the middle of the night (like they usually do in the movies) all those stores would have been closed so I should have some luck finding supplies. the down side is with it being canada, the gun shops are not on the path I'd take and are mostly in the middle of town so that would be a treacherous place to try and get to.

I'd be good, I live 5 miles away from RAF Brize Norton. Guns, Grenades, Body Armour, Oh My!....


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And can I just say, the amount of people from over the pond who think that we Brits have a Castle in every town is really cute......

People are looking at a zombie apocalypse at too small a scale here. Think about it economically. When people hear the dead are rising, they won't care about going to work or buying the latest fad products or that sort of gak. Farmers aren't going to go out and harvest grain when they might stumble into a zombie. Sure, they can probably beat a zombie in a fight, but do they want to take that chance? It'd be easier to just set up fort in their basement and wait it out. What about all those people who maintain phone and powerlines or the Internet? Society as we know it will collapse.

Meanwhile, the zombie problem will never go away. People will always be dying and according to the Romero laws, the dead will always be rising. With society reeling, this will allow the undead to gain numbers. And that's how they're going to win. I imagine large portion of deaths would be due to dehydration, fires, disease and other problems that society used to take care of. Every person that dies will become one of them.

sarpedons-right-hand wrote:I'd be good, I live 5 miles away from RAF Brize Norton. Guns, Grenades, Body Armour, Oh My!....


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And can I just say, the amount of people from over the pond who think that we Brits have a Castle in every town is really cute......

I'd never say every town, but you do have some there, and it is possible you live near one. a whole lot nearer to one that I do

back to the op about what to collect, if shour notice go outside grab a stick, use a kitchen knife to turn it into a spear, it probable wont do much but its better then the kitchen knife, next barricade your place of residence and grap as much food and seeds as you can, stock pile on water for drinking and bathing, get a better melee weapon, and a gun if you can, after you are trained with your weapons abd have your fort settled, with seeds planted, head on over to your local hobby store and grab all the boxes of product that are for your army, also get all the super glue and paint you need, next get home and get to work getting your entire army painted, you should be done about the time the outbreak is over, now you can go back to your hobby store with a large beautifully painted army and continue on with your life. (you thought this advice was going to be useful at first didnt you? )

LoneLictor wrote:People are looking at a zombie apocalypse at too small a scale here. Think about it economically. When people hear the dead are rising, they won't care about going to work or buying the latest fad products or that sort of gak. Farmers aren't going to go out and harvest grain when they might stumble into a zombie. Sure, they can probably beat a zombie in a fight, but do they want to take that chance? It'd be easier to just set up fort in their basement and wait it out. What about all those people who maintain phone and powerlines or the Internet? Society as we know it will collapse.

Meanwhile, the zombie problem will never go away. People will always be dying and according to the Romero laws, the dead will always be rising. With society reeling, this will allow the undead to gain numbers. And that's how they're going to win. I imagine large portion of deaths would be due to dehydration, fires, disease and other problems that society used to take care of. Every person that dies will become one of them.

Ah! I nearly forgot about the farmers. We're fine.