That’s what I was thinking, too - I believe prisons do have electric locks, which should all be useless now, but you rope the door closed with a bicycle lock and padlock it with the key* you keep around your neck, and Bob’s your uncle! No getting bitten in your sleep (or turning in your sleep and wandering off to eat the rest of your group).
*No combination locks. I still have nightmares about trying to remember my locker combination from high school!
Interesting thought, but do you think you’d have either the time or the facilities? You’re in a survival situation - what more do you need to know beyond “dead people with intact brains come back”?
Maybe not before the farm (though I think I would be asking a lot of questions and getting what observation I could), but you can be damned sure that once I learned there was a barn full of them and they hadn’t shown any sign of escaping I’d have been suggesting experiments (not that Hershel would have gone along).
Once I’d been told by a big time scientist that being bit wasn’t necessary I’d be examining every body I came across.
When I had zombies in a relatively safe one on one position I wouldn’t just kill it. I’d try to test their abilities. Can they swim? How do they respond to impediments (when they run into a wall between you and them to they just keep trying to go through the wall or will they look for a way around? Can they climb?
Are they flammable? Is there any other way to kill them than actually penetrating the brain? Can they be suffocated by immersion in water. Is there anything that will trigger a fear response in them? Can they/will they climb?
There are all kinds of relatively small questions that don’t require timely experiments that you could be doing that will help inform you of how to respond and protect yourself.
For example, are the zombies so stupid that if razor wire had been strung across a field at neck height, the zombies would eventually decapitate themselves trying to get to you because they’re too stupid to duck?
I’m not saying I’d have tried to set up a level 3 bioresearch facility but I’d like to think that after at least several weeks (and other than Rick they’ve definitely been dealing with this for at least a month or two) I’d like to think some curiosity as to the nature of the threat would begin to surface.
Never mind.
Shane shot the guy behind the bar in the head. He shot fatty twice, first in the body and then deliberately in the head.
I think you mean Rick.
I like the way you think, and would like to help out in your Zombie Lab.
Well, assuming they could even get some concrete, do they have the tools, equipment, and expertise to properly lay it and shape it into a wall? Has Rick ever poured concrete? Daryl? T-Dawg? Any of the females? Just going out on a limb and saying I doubt anyone in the group comes from a construction background.
I mean, I consider myself to be pretty handy, but if you gave me a few bags of concrete and asked me to build a wall, I guarantee you there’d be a lot of head scratching and trial and error. And, I even have the luxury of looking it up on the Internet.
Given their circumstance, they don’t really have the time to be experimenting.
ON a farm in the South?
Hell, yes.
But it’s a lot of work and takes time away from talking about killing folks.
I don’t know what the local Wal-Mart is like, or the Loewe’s. Maybe they can just drive to town and get quick crete and form lumber.
Maggie: “Glen? Stop at Walgreens. You Know Why.”
I agree. A concrete wall isn’t practical in their situation. If they could scrounge a backhoe, a deep ditch might work, but as was said upthread, the fallen bodies would make a bridge.
Do walkers get up after they’ve fallen down? I should remember if we’ve seen this, but I don’t. I know we’ve seen them crawl, but do they get up?
Experiment! Experiment!
I’d watch it. At least a few episodes.
Put me in the experiment camp, too - I’d want to know as much as I could about The Enemy.
Yes, I’m pretty sure we’ve seen several examples of that. If nothing else the one who killed Dale fell down while trying to get out of the mud and kill Carl, and it was definitely upright when it pounced on Dale.
Then gimme some help. *Gunsmoke. * Chainsaw Smoke?
The Big Valley. The Big Zombie Trap?
Have Teeth, Will Travel, at least until something gets in the way.
Rawhide – it’s not just for breakfast anymore!
Outstanding!
Cheyenne -> Infected
Branded -> Bitten
The Rifleman -> The Chainsaw Guy
I was pretty sure that Jenner at the CDC said that they did NOT know if it was viral, fungal, bacterial or whatever. Just that it happens and here is what it looks like. So while I would hate it, the door for a supernatural explanation is slightly ajar.
Yeah, after the video of the test subject, Andrea said “You have no idea what it is, do you?”
Jenner replies “It could be microbial, viral, parasitic, fungal…”
Jacqui: “…or the wrath of God?”
Jenner “…there is that.”
I don’t like a supernatural explanation either, but it wasn’t nailed down as a virus. He did later say the French thought they were close to a solution before they lost power. I wouldn’t think a supernatural disease would have a solution, but I know very little about supernatural diseases 