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.
First Lady Michele Obama’s prayer only clean spirits surround the President, failed:
http://drudgereport.com/
Rush Limbaugh suggests Obama may be possessed:
“These pictures, they look demonic. And I don’t say this lightly,” Limbaugh said as he opened his program.
“There are a couple pictures, and the eyes, I’m not saying anything here, but just look,” he remarked about the president who has been campaigning for the re-election of fellow Democrats.
“It is strange that these pictures would be released … it’s very, very, very strange.”
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=216721
AND given the season, the emergence of a new personality in our President should be blogged on DU…
Why isn’t it?
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.
#6 I am astonished you didn’t take this as an opportunity to roast Limbaugh.
its as though you are afraid folks might think he is right.
Its out of character for you to ignore what he said.
Its not inconsistent you ignore Michele Obama’s stupid “clean spirits” statement, had O’Donnel or Palin said something like that, it would be blog after blog, everywhere a loon rests in the branches.
#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.
#9 Damian Obama’s crazed rants, Michele Obama’s clean spirit prayer chain with Broadway wiccas, House ready to fall on Pelosi…
And you let the man behind the curtain, Rush Limbaugh, the titular head of the Republican Party, get away with his attacks on your Messiah…
Its a brave new world.
#6 An epiphany, you coordinate with John Podesta’s the Center for American Progress.
When the talking points had Republicans as dangerous extremists, you blogged it.
Every talking point discussed in the regime’s propaganda press, you blog here at DU.
When they went ballastic over Rush’s Jackass comment, you slavishly replicated that here.
BUT now they ALL are silent about Demon Obama, and so are you.
I thought this story was about zombies, not trolls…
Here’s a Demon for you:
Helpless Liberals Watch as Obama Switches from Messiah to Demon
http://rushlimbaugh.com/home/today.member.html
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.
#16 Anime-bee – Did you date my sister?
#17 – I swear she said she was 18!!! Wait a minute – is your sister Thai ???
#18 AnimalBee – No, she just smells that way.