2012 And the Summer of the Zombie

Maybe we should blame the Mayans and their stupid ass calendar that seems to run out in December but for whatever the reason the summer of 2012 is stacking up to be one of the more bizarre summers in recent history and is rapidly being called “THE SUMMER OF THE ZOMBIE”.

Now we all know what happened back in May in Miami with a drug fueled [Bath Salts], Rudy Eugene, now not drug fueled cannibal attack of Ronald Pappo where half his face was eaten off before cops shot [Eugene] to death. But it seems that the story of zombies and zombie-like-ism doesn’t end there.

In June of this year [2012] just weeks after the Eugene/Pappo attack another incident occurred -also in Florida- where a one Charles Baker burst into his girlfriend -and mother of his children’s home stripped naked and started screaming. When another man at the home, Jeffery Blake, tried to restrain the 26-year-old [Charles] Baker, Baker reportedly bit a large chunk of flesh out of [Blake’s] arm. Police after arriving on the scene tasered Baker twice before they were able to arrest him. He [Baker] was then taken to Manatee Memorial Hospital for a medical -along with a psyche- evaluation were he [Baker] was said to be high on an unknown drug and was charged with aggravated battery.

Then in July (the 11^th) another incident along the same lines took place -also in Florida.

Police in St. Augustine were called to a home where the home owner said there was a naked man on his roof.

The home owner (according Daily News the source for this story) was alerted to a possible prowler outside his residence and when he went to investigate found that his patio was torn up and then saw a man climbing the side of the house up onto the roof.

Officers arrived just after 4 a.m. and found the naked man, a one Jeremiah Aaron Haughee (22), trying to be restrained by the homeowner and his son. Haughee reportedly took a bite out both men’s stomachs in the melee.

New York’s Daily reported that it took five officers to subdue Haughee and that confrontation [Haughee] took a chunk out of one the responding officer’s legs. Haughee, even after being tasered, cuffed and shackled still had to be tranquilized by doctors.

Haughee was charged with five counts of battery, three of which were against a police officer, and was later released on a $32,000 bond -if you can believe that.

I don’t know what the fuck is going on in Florida and their ’NAKED’ zombies it seems to be spreading.

Earlier this month [July 2012] in China a drunk buss driver was caught on tape leaving his buss and then attacking a women in a car where he bit her in the face.

According to local Chinese news reports, the buss driver, Dong, had been drinking heavily during lunch with his friends before his outburst where he [Dong] ran into the road of the city of Wenzhou, which is in south-east China, stood in front of a car that was being driven by a woman named Du, stopping her from moving. Dong then climbed on the car’s hood and started beating the vehicle while the panicked woman screamed for help and when she [Du] left the car and tried to escape, Dong leaped on top of her wrestling her [Du] to the ground and started biting Du’s face, leaving her covered in blood. Du was taken to hospital, where doctors said she would need surgery to repair her nose and lips. Dong was taken into custody.
These are not the only weird incidents of zombie-like-attacks. Here is a list with links with other just as bizarre stories that seem to be… related?

May 16, 2012:15 Students and 2 adults break out in a mystery rash after a hazmat exposure at McArthur High School in Hollywood, Florida. The infected appeared to be okay after enduring a decontamination gauntlet, but the cause of the outbreak was not discovered.


May 18, 2012: An unknown chemical exposure shuts down Terminal Two, the Delta Airlines concourse, at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. Three TSA agents and two passengers are sent to the hospital with respiratory ailments.

May 21, 2012: A man in Westchester, Illinois, is apprehended after he grabs an 18-year-old woman by the throat and bites into her cheek.

May 23, 2012: Another Broward county school, this time Lauderdale Lakes Middle School, is put on lockdown while a hazmat squad investigates another contamination incident. Four students and a teacher in a science classroom had a red rash on their wrists, but all report they were not working with chemicals.

May 25, 2012: Hazmat and emergency personnel respond to a Lake County, Florida school after 27 children and adults are sickened on a school bus.

May 25, 2012: A “disoriented” passenger on American Airlines flight 320 from Jamaica to Florida (please note my plausibility of contagion travel to Florida in the article “Is the Miami Zombie part of a government cover-up”) rushes the front of the plane and has to be subdued by his fellow passengers.

May 26, 2012: the same day of he Eugene/Pappo, a Florida anesthesiologist spits blood in the face of a Florida Highway Patrolman who pulls him over for drunk driving. The involved Dr. Zachary Bird is violently agitated and in possession of large quantities of cash and some unknown pills.
May 29, 2012: A man in the Spring Valley area of San Diego bites part of his cousin’s nose offin a fight. Taken individually, it is easy to dismiss these as random unfortunate events. When reviewed as part of a larger picture, consider them as food for thought, rather than becoming food for zombies.Locally, the Longmont Zombie Examiner will continue to monitor the Colorado and Rocky Mountain region for any zombie, or other, paranormal occurrences.

[Other sources for this story are "pakalert", Daily News, and other internet related articles]