Thursday, February 5, 2009

Zombie Apocolypse Responsible for Heavy Traffic?


Growing increasingly weary of the rather pedestrian activities of virus creation/distribution and professional 1337speak, some hackers have added "Public Service Announcer" to their resumés on the computer underground database. An intrepid few hacker-embassadors of safety are responsible for several instances of altered electronic road hazard signs, which cite zombies and raptors as causes for traffic and concern.

Except for the fact that the altered sign typically requires a manufacturer's reset before it can once again intermittently flash an ominous left-arrow, this all seems relatively harmless to me. But potential traffic-control-device-tamperer beware! According to the Associated Press, officials aren't laughing. Be prepared for punishment to the tune of $250...

So, for the cost of a Nintendo Wii I could tell a hundred thousand drivers on the Eisenhower about an undead horde, reverse commuting to the burbs for the blood of Bolingbrook's first born?

I knew I should have paid attention in that Engineering Computing course sophomore year.

2 comments:

  1. Only a select few seem to understand the severity of a zombie horde. What's it going to take to garner public awareness? It's a shame that it will probably get to pandemic proportions before anyone will start to take notice.

    I do have a theory though... a brief mandatory curfew after which we release thousands of raptors with tracking collars into the streets to destroy the zombies. Once the zombie horde has been neutralized by the raptors, we send out a retrieval team with tranquilizer guns to retrieve the raptor army. Then once again the streets are safe for our children... and hooligans.

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  2. That's just silly, Alli. Raptors aren't real!

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