As you know, being prepared for the day when the reanimated corpses of the recently deceased rise up to roam the earth, feeding on the brains of the living and spreading chaos and infection is a very important subject to me.
I would like to think that my Zombie contingency plans are coming together nicely - in the event of the undead hoards coming knocking on my door, I'm well equipped to get the hell out of the Metropolis at short notice.
When members of
Zombie Squad talk of
bugging out, they mean that they will put into effect carefully-made plans to quickly leave their home, grabbing an already assembled
bug out bag (BOB) full of kit. They then head for a
bug out location (BOL) which may or may not also be part of the plan. Kind of like The Winchester in Shaun of the Dead.
The idea is that if you're prepared to face the horror of the carnivorous cadavers of your friends and family coming to tear you limb from limb, you're probably ready for anything. In the event of natural disaster, disease or civil unrest, I'm planning on ending the film as one of the few left standing on a hilltop contemplating the dawn of a new civilization, y'know?
Anyway, being a city dweller, I reckon that my best chances of getting the hell out of dodge and attracting the least attention whilst doing so will probably involve a bicycle. In the event of The End Of The World As We Know It (TEOTWAWKI), I'm going to be reaching for my trusty fixie, clipping on some panniers, reaching for a suitable blunt implement and making for rural areas.
Clearly, if you don't want to become a tasty mid-morning snack for a slow-moving grupetto of shamblers, it's probably best to practice bugging out a few times so as to get an idea of what things you should carry and what equipment would work for you.
I thought that this would be an ideal theme for the first yACF
S24O ride
Let's leave London on Friday night (I'm suggesting an appropriate date, I thought...) and ride to somewhere out of the way. We'll set up camp, monitor the airwaves for emergency broadcasts and mount a guard rota to alert us of any incoming infected. Cricket bats may need to be deployed.
When we get the all-clear in the morning, we can strike camp, ride home and watch it on the news, marveling in our own resourcefulness.
Who's up for it?