Pate’
So I caught up with this episode and my question is why wasn’t there stuff along the road father down where all they had to do was walk off the road through the woods to head toward Alexandria? Even if they didn’t have enough cars or extra walls, what about some wire or barbed wire or spikes as someone else mentioned? It seems like the most important part of the roadway was not protected.
I can see people being unsure of Rick’s plan and wanting other options but once that truck fell and the walkers started making their way out it was really asinine for some of them to continue to argue about the plan because at that point it was either Rick’s plan or be walker chow.
There is a CSI episode ('What’s Eating Gilbert Grissom?, Season 5- Ep 6) where a student had been sent through a wood chipper and all that was left was goo and teeth.
Teeth are bad.
You’re correct that the small chippers sold for “back yard use” (or offered by rental companies to homeowners) are incapable of dealing with much of anything stronger than twigs and light branches. These could be jammed by heavy clothing, leather belts, or pocket knives. I wouldn’t try to dispose of a body with one. But the units like the one in simster’s cite upthread are really common in the trade. I live in a relatively small county ( < 125k people) but even here a glance at the yellow pages displays at least half a dozen local companies that have at least one, if not several, similar units. Call it 6 or more within 25 miles of me. Now I know that plants grow fast in Florida, but there is no lack of trees to my north. And apparently (from the news) these break in storms and such. So I’m guessing here, but I am willing to bet there are several landscaper-sized units nearby virtually everybody in the USA. Each fully capable of spraying out zombie pate in massive quantities without a hiccough. Oh, and teeth too. Let’s not forget the teeth! 
I have been informed on multiple media over the last twelve hours about more woodchipping, foresting, and general destructive vehicles and machines than I ever knew were possible. Machines that would eat your car keys, or your CAR, like a baby with a bag of gummy bears.
Okay, I give up. Plainly, we just need to have Rick and company go and get the Bagger 288, dump a gallon of gas in it, and head for that quarry.
And then… across the nation!
Now you’re talkin’!
One place I would head are the depots for city services…ie. my city has a Forestry department that regularly takes care of trees and such that line the streets and grow in parks and other places on city property. They have big chippers they tow behind a dumptruck: feed logs in, shavings go up a big chute and into the back of the truck. Probably still not as heavy-duty as some of the models posted upthread, but they dispense of some pretty big logs with those things.
Funneling them into it might be challenging. However while looking around for images of what I was thinking of, I came across this freaking thing, which would be pretty useful; but I would wonder where to find one of those.
I’ve always wondered if there is a more permanent solution to the walkers. Some type of extermination project to rid the world of them. Or do you spend the rest of your life fearing them? Also, some of these walkers look to be on the edge of falling apart physically. Is it only a matter of time before they totally collapse?
One would think so, but it is a comic book.
That brings up the issue of doomed guy who got grabbed from a mostly bones walker that had been hiding in a tree and still had enough strength to pull a full grown healthy man up to his face to bite him. They don’t seem to get weaker, even if their skulls are soft, their teeth and arm muscles remain pretty strong.
Come to think of it, there should be a lot of dead old folks with false or no teeth but we don’t see them. I wonder if being bitten by false teeth would cause the rapid infection? How about being gummed?
I think what cause the bites to be fatal is “zombie mouth bacteria” (great band name, by the way) so, yeah, if false-teeth zombie breaks skin, you’re a walker-to-be.
Zombie Lore: you are just a Zombie waiting to die from infection or a somewhat lethal injury. Zombies don’t die. Unless your brain is splattered. They/you never die otherwise.
Once a Zombie you can only post on forums.
Forever.
I was thinking that by this time most of the outdoor walkers should be naked or wearing very little. Those that have been locked indoors might be better, but still.
StG
They can show violence and bloody death by the score, but not nekkid people! :eek:
Has anyone ever come up with a plausible explanation for why, several years into this, in the hot, humid land of Atlanta, there are any walkers left to speak of? How is it that they rot so slowly? Cuz the fact of the matter is one summer would have skeletonized the lot of them, then the only ones left would be the living folks dying off one by one. (And skeletonize = no brain tissue = no ligaments = walker dead &/or immobilized)
Yes, I know the actual reason is that we need them to persist or there is no show, but c’mon, can we get someone to try and explain it?
Can we post that in the OP for all of these threads? 
One explanation is that the zombie virus retards decay, although this is a fanfic thing, not canon.
When you die, what happens to your body - rotting - is bacteria consuming your soft parts. It (usually) doesn’t do that while you’re alive because you have antibodies to deal with infection.
So, let’s say that the same disease that hijacks your lower brain function and turns you into a walker produces its own defensive antibodies. Or something. Which serves to inhibit the bacteria that would normally cause your body to rot.
Fanwanking is fun
…and while we’re at it, let’s say that the anti-bacterial antibodies don’t work perfectly, they just slow down the process, which means walkers smell rotten (which is canon) and that makes them unappetising to everything from bacteria to large carnivores and (of course) each other.
ETA: …and a side effect of the anti-decay bacteria is that in the absence of fresh food, it cannibalises the nearest organic material, which happens to be the walkers head, which is why their skulls are so soft and easily squished.
Anything else you’d like fanwanked?