If the dead started to walk while you are at work could you survive?

[UNDEAD FRED]

If you where at work, and the bodies of the recently dead returned to life, and started attacking the living could you survive? could you make it home across town? if not where would you hold up at? What items at your workplace could you turn into a weapon to destroy the brain of the flesh eating ghouls? You can apply this to both Romero style shambling zombies, Dawn of the Dead 2004 fast running zombies, or Rage virus victims.

[Dave Of The Dead]

I work at a pizza place when I'm not fixing computers so there are a lot of available weapons around there. We have this big machete-like knife that is weighted on the back... I've never seen anyone use it so I don't know why we have it. But my house is just a few blocks away. I could run it if I didn't have a car for some reason.

[UNDEAD FRED]

Seeing that I work in a city with over a million people, and work on new home construction job sites 20-30 miles from home most of the time. Im pretty much screwed trying to get home. Especially on southern California freeways. Most of my tools I use could kill a zombie. If they are the fast moving DOTD04 zombies, Im pretty much dead. Plenty of materials to board up an empty new home with real tight, but no food, or lack of water would be a major problem. one + most construction workers can handle themselves prety good if they had to kill the undead, most carry guns in thier trucks to.

[Hitman]

I work in a large machine shop . the place itself is a weapon. I also take 2 guns with me and at least 50rds of ammo for each. my house is less than 2 miles from my work and I could use yards to get home if the way home was blocked for some odd reason. 4X4 is handy for that as is having my house on the edge of town close to my work thats just out of town.

[Lian]

The dead could start to walk the earth while I was at the hospital getting a prostate examine and I'd still give myself good odds. Work...sure it's a non issue.

[Behemoth]

No problem, although i would rather the outbreak took place when i was working my full time job ( large motor dealer ) i would just take one of the 4X4,get home grab my things & let it begin.

[Zombie_215]

I am so screwed, I work at Wal-Mart. No weapons to speak of, unless you count those cheap machetes we sell. The only problem is I work on the other side of the store.

[Screwballgunnut]

Hell yeah!

I, for one, could survive if the dead start walking while I'm at work. There's 7 spare 1911 mags within arms reach & a locked & cocked 1911 all loaded with 200gr Speer Gold Dot +P's, a .38 revolver, and a whallopin stick in the front seat. In the trunk, there is several extra of boxes of ammo for each handgun, a loaded Benelli 12ga, and several boxes of 00Buck & slugs. Plus, there are two added bonuses I failed to mention....... 1) I usually hear about things as soon as they start happening and 2) I'm never more than about 5-10 minutes away from the house, and a REAL stockpile of guns & ammo

[Dawna Of The Dead]

I work as a secretary, and god knows there aren't any guns where I work, but my boss does keep a handgun in his desk for reasons he has yet to tell me, and my apartment is only a mile away. So I have two options, both of which would most likely come back to bite me in the ass.

[Rune]

I'm a government worker in a refugee camp.

I'd head on over to the technical area, get some tools, team up with some co-workers and form a posse. Then I guess we'd go from home to home or something, or I could just get my beemer from the parking lot and try to drive home. It's only a 15 minutes drive.

Though, hysteria would prolly clog up the roads and intersections, so maybe the posse idea would be better, then again... A posse would be a nice flock of snacks and draw alot of attention... aargh...

[mattifikation]

Originally Posted by Zombie_215

I am so screwed, I work at Wal-Mart. No weapons to speak of, unless you count those cheap machetes we sell. The only problem is I work on the other side of the store.

Your wal-mart doesn't sell guns? Raw deal. The one I work at sells bolt actions, shotguns, 22s, and Ruger Mini-14s.

Surely though, you carry knives, bow and arrows, axes, baseball bats, and hammers?

[Victor Clark]

I would be pretty damn well off if I was working when the undead have risen. I'm currently working as a landscaper as a summer job! We're always driving HUGE diesel trucks which can hold tons of supplies and survivors (along with being a temporary shelter if it runs out of gas), there are always weapons around like shovels and pickaxes, most of the places I do yardwork at are in nice suburban neighborhoods that can be used as shelters, and while my house is over 45 minutes away from work, it wouldn't be any problem to drive through traffic in one of the work trucks (which are always fully stocked with gas by the way).

[Lian]

Originally Posted by mattifikation

Your wal-mart doesn't sell guns? Raw deal. The one I work at sells bolt actions, shotguns, 22s, and Ruger Mini-14s.

Surely though, you carry knives, bow and arrows, axes, baseball bats, and hammers?

Yea I think just about every Walmart in Colorado quit carrying firearms. I'm sure that everyone in Denver has at least. But saying that a Walmart doesn't have anything to use as a weapon is like saying Toy's R Us doesn't have anything for a pre-schooler.

[zmbvan]

I would be sitting nice if zombies attacked while I was at work. Working at a restaurant provides you with a plethora of knives and mops. My parents live less than a mile from my job. So if I needed to find some quick shelter it would be easy to get there. My apartment is around 7 miles away from the restaurant. Whether I drove or rode my bike that day wouldn't matter.

There are only around 225,000 people who live in my town. Only about 1.7 million in the whole state of Nebraska. After living in a larger city for a summer I have realized how easy it is to actually get around my town.

[john154]

I'd be pretty hard up cause I'm currently workin at the army recruiting center. As such everything is nice, friendly and politicly correct in our office. I ride my bike to work so don't have a great way of getting away either.. may be in a great deal of trouble tryin to get out. At least we've got secure doors and shatter-proof windows as the exterior must be protest resistant. We get regular anti-war demonstation and such. The hippies and protesters are kinda like zombies. We get a lot of paint bombs and meat thrown at our windows so the initial zombie apocalypse wouldn't be too much of a shock. It'd be a different story if I were at the Armoury or at home where we have weapons when this happens...but would I be so lucky?