Zombies invade Apple store

So apparently last night the Stockton street Apple store in SF was mobbed by... wait for it... flesh-eating hordes. We suppose the obvious joke would be that brain-eating zombies would go hungry paying a visit to an Apple store, but we know better than to arouse the ire of Mac fanboys -- and zombies -- so we're leaving this one alone.

[Photo by Steve Rhodes - thanks Steve!]

Read - SF Zombie mob manifesto

[(Unverified) Posted May 26th 2007 5:28PM]

They are just imitating the mac people that you find at just about any mac store

[(Unverified) Posted May 26th 2007 6:42PM]

Ha! Natalie made it onto Engadget. I'm going to add this link to her journal in a sec. She's also gnawing on an iMac over on cnet news for all you drooling hoards at home.

More of Natalie: http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9723086-7.html

No I will not give you her contact info. =)

[(Unverified) Posted May 27th 2007 6:59PM]

Thanks for letting me know about this Ryan..

"Zombie Girl" here..

All of you complainers and over-analyzers should've come out to play.

It was all about the Zombie Dance!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/focalmatter/514413974/

[(Unverified) Posted May 26th 2007 6:49PM]

"According to the link to the Zombie girl--this did indeed happen in San Fran. It's not out of the realm of possibility for a stunt like this to occur at different venues."

Please read my post again, then read yours, and then tell me what you are talking about.

Block incorrectly noted the store's location as being on *California Street* in San Francisco. However, as I noted, the store is actually on *Stockton Street.*

There were, as you state, other zombie mobs. This particular one was at the San Francisco store on Stockton Street. There is one other Apple Store in San Francisco and it is in a mall. There was no zombie mob there.

[(Unverified) Posted May 26th 2007 6:40PM]

I was a victim of the zombie mob. It took place yesterday in San Francisco. Pretty much, you were a victim if you wore duct tape on your clothing.

It was all well staged, including a zombie wedding right in the middle of Union Square. Then no one knew where to go, until someone screamed, "Victoria's Secret" and a hundred zombies took off towards VS... attacking the cable cars along the way.

After getting kicked out of there and denied entrance to "The Body Shop" and stopping for a quick musical interlude with some folk singers, we moved into Powell Station and then, upon exiting, someone spotted the apple store. Out of all the stores that we got kicked out of, the apple store was by far the nicest to us.

What made the day weirder was that there was also a critical mass going on at the same time as the zombie mob. Hundreds on bicycles disobeyed traffic laws on market street as the zombies took over the sidewalks. This really confused the tourists.

The best tourist quote I heard:

Wife: What the hell is going on here?
Husband: I'm not sure if they're supposed to be zombies or democrats.

[ChrisAre Posted May 26th 2007 6:57PM]

@check your facts
I think you mean "get a mac" ;-)

[(Unverified) Posted May 26th 2007 7:33PM]

And not one reference to Southpark??? You guys!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Living_Homeless

One more thing, if these people weren't participating in this "flash mob thingy", they'd be hanging out like they always do at the local mall. You know the same people you see all 5 times during the year when you go there??

[crescentdavid Posted May 26th 2007 7:54PM]

Kudos to Apple for being savvy enough to allow the invasion. The Westwood mall, protected by the Disney Police (true) "just said no." Wankers.

My personal favorite:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/190/514459018_e2d441b732_b.jpg

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 5th 2007 10:34AM]

The Zombie thing went on here in NYC last October... when 500 ish people dressed as Zombies wandered around the city in a mob. The Apple Store in SoHo denied to let them in. I'm sure SF will deny them entry next time. The NYC Zombies were not all lamo ketchup splashed Zombies tho. They had unique costumes like Zombie School Girl, Zombie Teacher, Zombie Corporate Lawyer.

[(Unverified) Posted May 26th 2007 10:18PM]

Guess someone got into the extra-strength Kool-aid...

[(Unverified) Posted May 26th 2007 10:54PM]

Doesn't this happen every day?

I know they come on Engadget every day...

[(Unverified) Posted May 26th 2007 11:51PM]

good thing this was done in SF and not Texas ... otherwise we would see a lot of headless zombies :p

[gfar Posted May 27th 2007 1:37AM]

enough with the short story sized comments already...think of a witty one liner for me to laugh at or shut up.

[(Unverified) Posted May 27th 2007 9:57AM]

there is a difference between revulsion and fear....the "phobia" tag is a creation of that community. I find eating snails disgusting...doesn't mean I secretly want to eat them.

[(Unverified) Posted May 27th 2007 4:09PM]

sodom & francisco?

[(Unverified) Posted May 27th 2007 1:07PM]

Some people just have way too much time on their hands.

[(Unverified) Posted May 27th 2007 3:01PM]

I got a video of this posted > http://www.bluoz.com/blog/index.php?/archives/125-zombie,-critical-mass-and-messengers.html

[(Unverified) Posted May 28th 2007 11:10AM]

They prefer the term "living impared".
A little respect please.

[(Unverified) Posted May 27th 2007 8:08PM]

Haha, oh snap, it really is you :] Hadn't read the rest of the comments. So yes, I'll play dress-up next year. Mucho fun ;D

[bunny rabid Posted May 27th 2007 10:53PM]

Beware!!! So-called "Hot zombies" are the most fiendishly insidious of all the zombies. They usually do not START by eating the brain, but instead they choose to devour other parts of the body.

Many times the initial attack from a Hot Zombie seems ludicrously slow or ineffective, leading their victims to believe it is some sort of "game."

Alas, by the time they have eaten your parietal lobes, it is too late.

[CaptSaltyJack Posted May 27th 2007 8:33PM]

Uh no. Mac Pro is $2500. I priced a custom built Windows box with two quad-core Xeons, same amount of RAM, Intel motherboard, etc. It came out to about $2600.

[(Unverified) Posted May 27th 2007 10:37PM]

Yeah.......the $2500 Mac Pro uses two DUAL core xeons. Those are quite a bit cheaper than two quad cores. Also, I find it hard to believe that a Windows box that powerful would only have a gig of ram in it seeing as how Vista (if that's what the O/S was) is even more ram hungry than OSX. They're damn nice computers with a slicker O/S, but they're just not priced to become more than a niche product right now. They are becoming more reasonable than preceding models, though, So I believe in the next 2 to 5 years there will be pricing parity.

[macserv Posted May 27th 2007 9:30PM]

Thanks for the clarity, "mike r". So this has nothing to do with Apple, really, except that this mob of zombies got bored and ended up there, after first being kicked out of several other stores.

Not that that's the spin every media site is putting on it, or anything. :-/

[(Unverified) Posted May 28th 2007 12:48AM]

Oh I see, so the looks can be deceiving eh. Better be careful, but they sure are some enticing zombies. I'll zombify myself the next year so I can do some brain-munching myself and not have to worry, but thanks for the warning ;]

[(Unverified) Posted May 28th 2007 4:54AM]

hey y'all, only sound bytes for gfar. zombies don't have the attention span of, well, a zombie.

[(Unverified) Posted May 28th 2007 11:13PM]

Zombie no like brains, but Zombie eat brains

Zombie subject to mass stereotype

[(Unverified) Posted May 28th 2007 8:34PM]

hahaha oh man... See, you're the type of person that makes no sense at all and are as intelligent as the undead. How does not wearing an ipod and buying a Microsoft product make you better than someone who does? Wow, you're a real rebel, using Windows and all that. Haven't you at least considered the lesser of two evils factor in your purchasing decisions? You can't honestly think that buying Microsoft products is better than buying Apple products becausing buying an Apple product makes you a sheep and buying a Microsoft product means you're not? If so, can I have some of the drugs you're doing?

[spiez Posted Jun 1st 2007 8:20PM]

I'll listen to the podcast and keynote coverage on these, but to really put these good phones to the test you got to load up the lossless audio files of some well-recorded music...aural bliss.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 1st 2007 9:52PM]

I need to consult the max brooks guide,call george romero,and fuel up the el camino's custom built 500 gallon tank. i have precious little time to get to monroeville before this thing goes east.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 8th 2007 6:48PM]

Hey, RP: That's quite an anti-microsoft rant, considering Dustin never said he uses Windows or any Micrsoft products. There are mp3 players out there not made by Apple or Microsoft. I got my mp3 player for less than 1/2 the cost of an iPod of the same size, it can record audio, you can replace the battery or upgrade the hard drive easily, it doesn't store my mp3s in a proprietary database format, you can mount it on your desktop and add or manage files without having to use a bloated peice of proprietary software, it runs an open-source operating system where you can talk to the developers and request new features, & it can be used as an external USB hard drive in a pinch. Personally, I agree with him about iPods. Why do people buy them?

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 8th 2007 6:57PM]

Oops, I didn't notice: he did say Zune. I guess I'm brain-dead too. But at least I didn't buy an iPod or Zune.