So I am kind of starting to see the
down side of not going out on scavenging sortie missions. Idle hands are the
devil’s playthings and we need to do stuff to keep some of our survivors (the
young ones specifically) more entertained.
See, the pharmacy features one of
those old school, drive through bank window drawers that they could use to give
pills to people in their cars. It is far too small to have to worry about a
zombie fitting through but we did have to reinforce the window that the
pharmacy tech used to talk to the customers.
Now, I think we have made it clear
that to zoms meat is meat. They will eat people, dogs, cats, pretty much
anything they can get their hands on. Also consider that their sense of smell
seems to be enhanced too and they are keen when it comes to tracking blood.
This is either genius or sick.
The guys took a lot of the bloody
packaging from the thawed ground beef along with some meat scraps and other
inedible stuff. Can you see where this is going? They put all that stuff in the
pharmacy drawer and then opened it up to the outside world. Sure enough, it
didn’t take the zoms too long to find it. This is when the snipers went to work
from their perched positions on the roof. But this was as close as we had
gotten to figuratively shooting fish in a barrel.
So the guys came up with something a
little… different. They attached a cinderblock to a length of rope and extended
it from the building pendulum style so that they could swing it. The length of
the rope, the set up with the pendulum and the spacing of the swing made to
where if you are looking in that extended drawer, that cinderblock will
literally take a zombie head off.
Then the younger guys would all
laugh and laugh. We had to put a stop to the process when the cinderblock
careened off a zoms head and spun into the window in front of the bank drawer.
Thankfully, most of the momentum had been blunted. There is now a small chip in
the glass where the block made contact. I cannot imagine the chaos if the
window had shattered out. I think it would be pretty hard for functioning zoms
to climb up through the window given the height and stuff but why take chances?
And now we have a small collection of
bodies stacked up outside the pharmacy that we will have to deal with. But
there are that many less zoms running around in the world now and the guys all
got to have a good – if technically a sadistic – time.
Boys will be boys.
