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Until the government shuts Twitter down... \"mysterious server outage\" my ass.
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Until the government shuts Twitter down... \"mysterious server outage\" my ass.
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I'm more surprised that there's a perfect picture for this post.
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Well, that's a load off my mind.
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At least we know Boston will have a fighting chance in the zombieocalypse. Forewarned is forearmed.
Despite being undead, the policewoman in the picture exceeds the regulations for officer hotness.
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@CyberSkull: yeah, well guaranteed you won't keep that forearm very long if you're in boston when it comes. that city's a deathtrap even without braineaters running around.
on the bright side, maybe the artery will keep them distracted for a bit?
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@CyberSkull: The first thing I noticed was that she was hot. The whole \"eating brains\" thing might have been a deal-breaker to a younger me, but as I grow older, I'm willing to make a few sacrifices in the name of (after)life-long love.
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Keep in mind this is the same police department that freaked out over a couple of 8 bit cardboard cut outs with leds.
@Lincolnsbeard33: No, the police acted in a somewhat responsible manner for finding something that could very well have been a bomb.
The media picking up the story and running with it with \"BREAKING NEWS OMG TERRISM IN BOSTON!!!1111!!!1!!!1,\" whipping everyone into a frenzy before anyone actually knew what the fuck was going on is what caused all the hullabaloo.
@Real Cheese Flavor: BINGO. BPD saw weird electronic devices ON A BRIDGE and called the bomb squad. That is a perfectly reasonable way of handling it. The media and Mayor Menino are the ones that flipped out about it. In fact, most of Boston didn't even know about it until that night (I work and went to school downtown).
@CumaeanSibyl: Oh man, if I get to miss work because of a zombie lockdown in Boston, I will be so happy.
@Anathema777: And all the Max Brooks fanboys will be running around willy-nilly with sharpened shovel blades... yeah, definitely stay home.
@Lincolnsbeard33: That was a drill for the robot invasion. Those weren't bombs, nor signs. They were scouts in advance of the main force.
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Should we also assume that if Boston is ever taken over again by massive LED structures of cartoon characters, the news will break on their Twitter feed?
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@supercereal: I don't remember anyone panicking except for those that were either already on camera or wanting to be.
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Thank heavens.
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Yeah, fine, zombies..whatever...but will they keep reporting the RedSox scores?
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@Lincolnsbeard33: Yeah, 2007. I'm not sure where my mind was when I was commenting, but it definitely wasn't here.
The zombies will still win, given that none of the tree-huggers in Boston own any guns. You've got to be armed to the teeth and ready to shoot when the zombies come. I'd love to see a zombieapocolypse here in Houston where everyone has many guns apiece.
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@halcyondays: I see you haven't read your zombie handbook. You'd be better off with long-reach melee weapons such as pikes or, failing that, hatchets for closer combat. If the gun owners can't pull off head shots, they're just wasting (a finite supply) of ammo.
Melee weapons FTW.
And then maybe we can bring back insult swordfighting afterward.
@edicius: That's why I have a pleasant mix of firearms, swords, batons, nail guns, and a garden sprayer rigged as a flamethrower.
Worse comes to worse, I can toss my propane canister out into the middle of the pack and explode it.
I'm sure when the time comes they'll use those highway notice signs. I believe they already come preset with the message \"Zombies Ahead\" these days.
Is it just me or the zombie cop hot?
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If a zombie alert system is set up via Twitter for my area I promise to overcome my Twitter apathy.
Of course they'd tell us. They already have a zombie for mayor for pete's sake.
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Boston is pretty safe from zombie invasion due to the lack of aval brains. SEND MORE PARAMEDICS
@frodolives35: Yeah, I mean what's in or around Boston to supply brains? Oh, two of the most presitgious universities in the world? Oh, right. I forgot about those.
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I have to agree with the folks above... in case of a zombie attack, twitter would be the most efficient way to find out! I hope you all have your zombie survival kits up to date and ready to go... you know... just in case.
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It's nice to see how many urgent and life-saving things are being done with Twitter. I can't tell you how comforting it is to know that -- if zombies attack in Boston -- it will be announced on Twitter, and thus be relayed to Blackberries and iPhones all over the world.
Finally, I can sleep much better tonight.
Seriously ... when I saw the headline, I'd wondered if there was something going on in Boston that makes its citizens think monsters are lurking in Beantown. Almost two months ago there had been a serious vampire scare at the famous Boston Latin School, so serious that its headmaster had to issue an announcement that there were no vampires there.
Really. That's not sarcasm. It happened. See [www.agnostic-library.com] (source story [www.boston.com]).
Heh, sounds like a cop. You can ask them any insane thing and they'll answer you with a stone cold face.
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Hmm...being that I don't live in Boston, this really doesn't help me. As I do live within 30 minutes of Detroit, its very easy to confuse a strung-out hobo with brain eating zombie scum.
Point of interest; I must find the girl in this picture, she may very well be the girl/zombie of my dreams.
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And yet they continue to deny the ongoing Mooninite invasion!
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It's actually impressive to see someone w/ the PD showing a sense of humor. After the whole crazy reaction to the ATHF gag, they had a rep of being humorless pricks.
I know Ted Kennedy is immune from zombie attack, as zombies don't desire puddin heads.
Excuse me, Senator, but you seem to have vanilla pudding leaking out of your ear.
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But will the BPD alert you when the zombies march through nearby suburbs like Somerville?:
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This is freaking awesome.