Zombies of all ages, shapes and fake blood types converged on the 16th Street Mall on Saturday for Denver's 6th annual Zombie Crawl. Daniel Newman, the 31-year- old founder of the event, estimated that 12,000 zombies were in or near Skyline Park an hour and a half after the crawl began. Many participants took the opportunity to parody the Occupy Wall Street movement. Justin Smith, 28, Valerie Rudden, 29, and Nick Pantier, 28, all from Denver, came to the event as "zombie-occupiers." They wielded cardboard signs splattered in fake blood that read, "corporate greed did this" and "coming for the 1 percent." "We aren't here as hard-core Occupy Denver people," Smith said. "It's a good movement to support and raise awareness of, but we are just down here for fun."
Clearest sign yet that the Occupy movements aren't going to catch on with regular, every day, main street Americans? When an organized Zombie-Crawl, not only A) Mocks you, but, B)Out draws you for a one day event when you've been protesting for a month in some locations.
Seriously, 12,000 people for a one day crawl? And you didn't have to camp out in a tent for weeks on end to achieve that number? Maybe you occupiers should appeal to these freaks, huh? How many people are at Occupy Boston on an average day? 500-1,000? 1500 at most? So tomorrow I could publish fliers, maybe get news attention, and tell everyone to show up on the Greenway on Saturday in full Zombie costume, and that would out draw your rinky-dink movement? That's probably the most damning evidence yet that this movement just isn't going to catch on...People would rather dress up as Zombies and stroll around the city aimlessly than hang out in a smelly tent town working on vague and all encompassing protests.
Keep up the good work occupiers.
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| By the way, Kudos to these people that went balls out as Zombies, they look legit, like Hollywood movie legit. |
