The Zombie Research Society folks had a cautionary tale on their blog recently:

This news isn’t exactly new, but it’s one of our favorite stories in recent memory.

A 22-year-old man in Colorado, Brandon Duke, was convicted of attempted murder after shooting at a local police officer trying to arrest him. At the time of the shooting Duke claimed that he fired his weapon because he was convinced the officer was a zombie.

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Let Duke’s story be a lesson. Though the coming zombie plague could strike at any moment, it never pays to be trigger happy.

The ZRS naturally takes the wrong lesson from this. It’s not that Duke was mistaken in shooting at a cop when he meant to shoot at a Zombie; the real lesson is that you shouldn’t shoot at anyone without a good reason, Zombie or Conventionally Living person!

Even the CDC, hotbed of Anti-Zombiism, agrees that shooting Zombies is wrong. Why can’t the Zombie Research Society?

I blame their rampant Living Supremacist bigotry.

PS: Another valuable lesson is not to come up with a transparent ‘insanity plea’ defense literally in front of a police detective. Oopsie.

Tags: Journamalism, Mainstream Media, Social Justice

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