Zombies are serious business. Just ask the woman who was shot
(non-fatally) by her boyfriend after they got in a fierce
argument over the probability of a real-life zombie apocalypse,
a conversation sparked by AMC's hit drama The Walking Dead. She
thinks it's pure fantasy, but he thinks a "military mishap"
could make the ravenous undead a reality. And so he shot her
(accidentally, he claims). Jeez, overreact much? And as crazy as
his actions were, the shooter isn't alone in his beliefs. Stay
with us here. We're not condoning his unbalanced response to
what should be a rather open-and-shut debate (e.g. zombies =
fiction). But there's a reason why zombies are appealing to
many: that tiny, niggling idea that maybe, possibly they could
exist (even when our brainsss tell us otherwise). That's what
makes them both scary and intriguing. 'Fess up. You either have
a zombie preparedness plan or know somebody who does. And even
though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention first used
zombies as a tongue-in-cheek