A group of zombies descended on Madison, demanding their rights last Saturday. The march of the undead began on the steps of the Capitol and continued down State Street to the Memorial Union. Living protestors from Advocates of Zombie Attack Preparedness (AZAP) were on the scene to show their concern over the rising zombie population.

Signs at the event displayed messages such as “the undead are people too”, “life is wasted on the living, ” and “got brains?”

Similar lurches have been spotted in Montreal, Vancouver, Austin, and San Francisco.

From TheDailyPage.com:

Variants of re-animated corpses included rocker zombies, dress ball zombies, child zombies, and even a Super Mario zombie. As remarked to me by one of the undead (in a moment of lucidity), it was a remarkably well-behaved lurch, particularly considering the vocal calls for flesh, brains, and other cellular ephemera. The zombies stuck to the sidewalks, apparently too shy for the middle of the street. Nevertheless, they did their best to conform to expectations as they made their way west, moaning at pedestrians, banging on restaurant and tavern windows, and even attempts at re-animation with more gameful of onlookers. Indeed, the lurch grew progressively larger as it progressed down State, resembling to a slight extent a zombie infection simulation.

The original Zombie Lurch press release on LiveJournal

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