Would your local police force recognize a zombie outbreak if they saw one?

Just for fun.

I've lost count of how many moviesTV shows I've seen that start off with somebody having a crazy experience, going to the cops, and the cops not believing them. Then the cops running into whatever it was that the person saw and only recognizing it as what it was right before they were eatenabductedwhatever.

It's a pretty standard movie trope, even in movies where science fiction franchises are an established thing and people should know an alienzombiemonster when they see one.

So, my question is, if there was a zombie outbreak in your area (Walking dead type zombies ), would your local law enforcement recognize that they were zombies, and would they know what to do, or would they believe that the zombies were junkies or kids pulling a prank, or crazy people in masks?

Would they know to shoot them in the head, or would they shoot them a dozen times in the body and wonder why nothing was happening?

Would they know that being bitten by a zombie turns you into a zombie?

Here? No.

I suspect they'd just follow the werewolf protocols or those used during an infestation of vampires.

We already have it here. It's called opiod addiction. People nodding in and out while walking, driving, talking, etc. So our officers would probably just assume they are addicts and toss some narcan at 'em.

a reply to: AaarghZombies

Depends. Are the zombies using smartphones? Then 'no'.

Hell, I wouldn’t even recognize a zombie if I bumped into one. Then again, I did see a lady at a party last week that may have been one?

originally posted by: Kangaruex4Ewe
We already have it here. It's called opiod addiction. People nodding in and out while walking, driving, talking, etc. So our officers would probably just assume they are addicts and toss some narcan at 'em.

Same here, but it's meth. Emaciated, hollow eyed, but damn they're quick.


On a serious note, I hate that stuff for what it does to people. Last year, a young man I knew was about 6' 2" 225 lbs and played for the local team and he was quite good. Even had dreams of going on to play college level. A healthy young person by any standard. He graduated, got into meth and I saw him again this Summer. He walked up and spoke to me and I didn't even realize who it was.
Broke my heart. I doubt this kid even weighs 150 now and that's on a good day.

originally posted by: Kangaruex4Ewe
We already have it here. It's called opiod addiction. People nodding in and out while walking, driving, talking, etc. So our officers would probably just assume they are addicts and toss some narcan at 'em.

We have it in the UK,but here its Spice(synthetic cannabis/chinese research chemicals).
Its in every town,and the symptoms are indishdinguishable from the "first stage" infected from "the Last of us."

So if we got a zombie outbreak,all the cops would just think they were spice heads,and ignore them as ususal.

The spice must flow.

a reply to: AaarghZombies

No. We got real crazies our there already. Be on our EMS.

We get howlers, screamers, derivatives of normal...it's be hard to tell. At 1st.

From: Detroit L.E.O. complex retiree

a reply to: AaarghZombies
Man, I live in Newark, NJ. We have junkies on the streets and some of them defy gravity law with zombie-like moves.

One day we can have undercover zombies.

Sure we all see them on TV and in movies, but we'd never ever expect to see them really. So why would a cop believe what he or she is seeing? Why would you for that matter?

Chances are they would shoot then a dozen times in the body and be wondering why it didn't stop them before being bit. Same with the national guard unless by then they got the news that only headshots were taking them down. But by then the zombies are overwhelming them by sheer numbers and they are running out of ammo.

Really the only way Humanity survives is that islands, salt mines, caves, and underground facilities that can be used for long term survival and can wait out 20 - 50 years for the zombies to decompose.

a reply to: MiddleInsite

Around here, we'd probably us the alien invasion protocols - our local PD got some of them there surplus directed energy and high explosives.

But I live in a condo and I'm pretty sure zombies is against the rules. And they'd probably make me pick up the mess when I blast their noggins to slush.

a reply to: AaarghZombies

I just know from movies. When you build barricades to keep out zombies, you make the barricades just tall enough the zombies can fall head first into the enclosure.

a reply to: AaarghZombies


I lived in AZ for 2 years. I lived in Gilbert, which is a beautiful place, and I mostly felt safe, except for transients. It’s hard to form bonds when people come and go so much.

I had great neighbors luckily, and we looked out for each other. All the other neighbors we didn’t know because they barely left their homes, and didn’t hang outside at all.

Phoenix and Tempe on the other hand are horrible to live imo. Tweakers are the norm there. The first time I visited there, my friend (who lived in Tempe at the time) had to stop at her bank quick. Before she got out she told me to lock the doors, and don’t be frightened, but expect to have numerous looking freaks knock on the windows to ask for money.

Sure enough, three tweakers did just that. It was creepy, I’ve had never seen anything like it before.

Even in my town, Gilbert, I got a call one morning from my neighbor who told me to look out my front window. There were swat members with a some kind of tank looking thing creeping slowly up the road. He told me to stay in the house, and advised me not to panic, that they were at my outside wall. His wife passed them while out walking the dogs.

Turns out, a guy who lived on our street (we didn’t know him), stabbed his girlfriend in the face, and when she fled the house, he went out to finish her off with his shotgun. I guess he was into Meth.

Luckily, the swat team found her, and apprehended him.

Meth is the Devil.

Short version, No because They wouldnt admit it if they did?!

originally posted by: Nickn3
Hell, I wouldn’t even recognize a zombie if I bumped into one. Then again, I did see a lady at a party last week that may have been one?

If she didn't try to bite you, then she probably wasn't one of the living dead.

a reply to: ntech

I'm pretty sure that a half competent hunter with a long gun could take out as many zombies as he had rounds. Slow moving targets are like shooting fish in a barrel.

originally posted by: DAVID64

originally posted by: Kangaruex4Ewe
We already have it here. It's called opiod addiction. People nodding in and out while walking, driving, talking, etc. So our officers would probably just assume they are addicts and toss some narcan at 'em.

Same here, but it's meth. Emaciated, hollow eyed, but damn they're quick.


On a serious note, I hate that stuff for what it does to people. Last year, a young man I knew was about 6' 2" 225 lbs and played for the local team and he was quite good. Even had dreams of going on to play college level. A healthy young person by any standard. He graduated, got into meth and I saw him again this Summer. He walked up and spoke to me and I didn't even realize who it was.
Broke my heart. I doubt this kid even weighs 150 now and that's on a good day.

And this is why we need to stop enabling addicts by mollycoddling them, and to start busting the dealers heads.

originally posted by: MiddleInsite
I suspect they'd just follow the werewolf protocols or those used during an infestation of vampires.

That sounds like a quick guide to becoming the main course at an undead buffet. I'm pretty sure that garlic and stakes do nothing to Zombies unless you poke one through its eye socket.