# Wheelchair zombies **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 22, 2011, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheelchair-zombies/582749 "2011-05-22T03:53:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheelchair-zombies/582749/1 "2011-05-22T03:53:45Z")
If you are crippled and in a wheelchair and are bitten by a zombie, can you walk or are you a roller-zombie? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheelchair-zombies/582749/2 "2011-05-22T03:59:58Z")
Roller-zombie. And you get stuck on the crappy sidewalks around here. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheelchair-zombies/582749/3 "2011-05-22T05:50:17Z")
You’d stay crippled. You could drag yourself along on the ground by your arms, though. ---
**Author:** ![YaraMateo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/58f4c7/32.png) [@YaraMateo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YaraMateo)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheelchair-zombies/582749/4 "2011-05-22T05:56:47Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > You’d stay crippled. You could drag yourself along on the ground by your arms, though. This possibly. Let’s be honest, if Zombies can pick clean an abled body person. There’d be NOTHING left if a group of zombies got you and you were in a wheel chair. Meal on wheels. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheelchair-zombies/582749/5 "2011-05-22T16:38:14Z")
On the other hand, according to _Start of Darkness_, if you’re turned into a zombie by a necromancer you will get up and walk. (As soon-to-be Xykon puts it, “Zombification. The cure for what ails you.”) ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheelchair-zombies/582749/6 "2011-05-22T17:49:18Z")
You will be able to walk so long as the problem is only neurological. Zombie virus replaces the dead person’s nervous system function. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2011, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheelchair-zombies/582749/7 "2011-05-22T20:57:20Z")
Pretty much it would depend on the style of zombie. The type of zombie raising that reassembles zombies from scattered bones and grave dirt would presumably fix a damaged spine in the process. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheelchair-zombies/582749/8 "2011-05-23T03:43:08Z")
Are disabled people cool with the term “cripple”? Because I think saying that is a gaucherie these days. I am not, myself, handicapped. Nor do I necessarily speak for anybody else. ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheelchair-zombies/582749/9 "2011-05-23T05:23:21Z")
Plenty of _AHEM_ Differently-Abled zombies are often seen crawling about. I assume someone with mobility issues would merely be a Crawling Zombie. Crawling Zombies can enjoy a fulfilling career grabbing the ankles of victims and appearing in areas unexpectantly, such as laundry chutes, elevator shafts, and flailing helplessly at the bottom of wheelchair inacessable facilities. ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheelchair-zombies/582749/10 "2011-05-23T15:10:02Z")
> [@rachelellogram](#): > > Are disabled people cool with the term “cripple”? Because I think saying that is a gaucherie these days. > > I am not, myself, handicapped. Nor do I necessarily speak for anybody else. I don’t give a s–t what you call me as long as it’s not vulgar or teasing (and yes, I am one). A rose by any other name… ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2011, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheelchair-zombies/582749/11 "2011-05-23T15:23:46Z")
[_Dead Set_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Set_%28TV_series%29) provides all the precedent needed for wheel chair bound zombies. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheelchair-zombies/582749/12 "2011-05-24T00:32:06Z")
> [@Canadjun](#): > > I don’t give a s–t what you call me as long as it’s not vulgar or teasing (and yes, I am one). A rose by any other name… I think calling someone “a cripple” is crass, but describing something as crippled, such as limbs or vehicles, seems a straightforward use of a term. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheelchair-zombies/582749/13 "2011-05-24T02:56:26Z")
> [@rachelellogram](#): > > Are disabled people cool with the term “cripple”? Because I think saying that is a gaucherie these days. > > I am not, myself, handicapped. Nor do I necessarily speak for anybody else. I tend to call myself a gimp. Cripple is too close to Crip. ---
**Author:** ![surrounded\_by\_literalists](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@surrounded\_by\_literalists](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/surrounded_by_literalists)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheelchair-zombies/582749/14 "2011-05-24T03:03:29Z")
What about if your depressed, or bipolar? Would you be a depressed or bipolar zombie? I wonder what an ADHD zombie would do? ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2011, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheelchair-zombies/582749/15 "2011-05-24T14:47:27Z")
Wht if you’re a zombie with constipation? Would you stagger about moaning, “Braaaaaanssss?”