Are We Human, Or Are We Zombie?
Continuing the thread from yesterday re college as the new preschool. The Boston Globe ran an article yesterday featuring the game Humans vs. Zombies: Beware: This Game is Infectious
Six Nerf toy guns with names like “Maverkick” and “MagStrike” hang from Tyler Clark’s shoulders and waist. He fires them to fight off an army of zombies here at the University of Massachusetts. Right now, though, he’s holed up inside the campus center as the zombies await his exit.
Clark is playing Humans vs. Zombies – or HvZ – an elaborate adult version of tag that has invaded 50 college campuses in New England and beyond. Similar in spirit to the movie “28 Days Later,” HvZ starts with one person playing a zombie who converts humans (other students) by simply tagging them with their hands.
“Basically, we get to act like kids again,” said Clark, 19.
I wanna play! This looks like so much fun! Notice there are only a couple of girls in the video–just think how much more fun this would be if it went coed! OK, these guys might not exactly be relationship material, but don’t forget you’ve got an 8-10 year wait till they’re ready, anyway. This seems as good a place as any to find Losers to Waste Your Youth and Beauty On.
Reports of large groups of students wearing bandannas and shouldering 2-foot toy guns have alarmed passersby on some campuses.
David Tillinghast, chief of campus police at Bridgewater State College, said, “We have received calls that some people thought the weapons they were wearing looked real. Sometimes they are out there in camouflage fatigues.”
At UMass-Dartmouth, students said that police officers have asked them not to wear red bandannas so people don’t mistake them for gang members.
OK, I know this isn’t funny in a post-Columbine era, but I just can’t help cracking up at the image of hordes of these dudes freaking out the neighbors with their Nerf guns and their camo.
On a recent weekday as the game unfolded at UMass-Dartmouth, Dan Rutledge sprinted across a field and dashed between academic buildings as he fended off dozens of zombies wearing bright green bandannas on their heads. Rutledge, who is on the school’s cross country team, easily outran the zombies. Whenever a zombie approached, he tossed rolled-up socks to temporarily stun them. Humans can fight back with Nerf guns, pool noodles, or socks to neutralize a predator for a few minutes.
OMG, how fun is that? Rolled-up socks! Hitting each other with pool noodles! Seriously, this sounds like a hella lot more fun that strip poker or naked Twister. Maybe going back to preschool isn’t such a bad thing after all.
Check out the official Humans vs. Zombies website here.
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