Thriller Zombies Loosed on Downtown Seattle

Colleen told me about a noble effort by the zombies of planet Earth to break a Guinness Book World record of the most simultaneous people to ever do the Thriller Dance.  A zombie squad had aligned themselves in Seattle.  Unfortunately I found out too late to give me a chance to get bitten by a zombie, become undead, and learn the choreography.  (However, if you're interested in learning the dance yourself, a nice girl named Ines has gone to the trouble of breaking the dance down into digestible [gnawable?] pieces in 40 short instructional youtube clips.)

Even though I couldn't walk amongst the zombies (even though I sorta did on accident, more on that in a moment)...I did snoop on their correspondence to find out when/where they were descending upon the living to attack us with their dance moves.

I went downtown and quickly found them, mostly because one zombie was holding up a huge "PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ZOMBIES" picket sign.  At that point they were just milling around a common area.  A Jesus man quickly came over with his big sign, trying to capitalize off the captive audience...and the zombies soon began to attack him and try to eat his brain.  This went on for some time as I wandered around trying to take pictures of the various zombies, like this one voraciously eating...a cupcake?:

The head zombie was setting up the sound system, and when I heard the first few bars of the Thriller intro, I hurried to jockey myself for a good position for picture taking.  Everyone was pushing their way to the center of the plaza for a good view...or so I thought.  Actually, "everyone" was the zombies, and they were pushing their way to the center of the plaza to start the dance!  Shit!  For one moment it was like I really WAS getting attacked by zombies and had to sneak my way out of the situation.

The dancing was funny, though you could tell they were all getting tired because after the first 30 seconds or so they quit making growling/burping/hissing noises.  Go check out my flickr photoset ... if you dare!!