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B.C. Zombie Website: Province Advises Citizens On Surviving Fictional Apocalypse

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VICTORIA - If British Columbians are suddenly struck with an overwhelming need to eat brains, the province has cobbled together advice on how the living can fend off the zombies.

The B.C. government is hoping its fictional advice will generate interest in a set of social media tools that aim to help the public in real emergencies.

A blog tapping into the popular horror genre was launched this week on the Emergency Info BC website, and it's penned from the perspective of a citizen who finds her town infected with a strange virus.

She says she's able to remain "cool, calm and collected" by reading the government's emergency Twitter feed and blog.

The campaign is meant to get the public watching for real alerts and updates using the online tools, including Amber Alerts, earthquakes, avalanches, wildfires, floods and tsunamis.

All such disasters are indeed potential threats to the province, with the campaign launched during Emergency Preparedness Week to inform people on how to survive in almost any emergency situation.

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Eugene Pool
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09:14 PM on 05/15/2012
Hillarious.
C'mon people, if it gets people to stock their cuboards and get some emergency training I'm all for a bit of fun.
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Captain Kierkegaard
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04:32 PM on 05/15/2012
Arghh, enough with the zombies already! What a waste of time...and brains. It isn't fun anymore!
And while were at it we should also shut up about vampires, pirates, and ninjas.
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Denis OBrien
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12:01 PM on 05/15/2012
BC has a novel solution to zombies....make them member of the legislative assembly...Kevin Krueger for example...an excellent example of a known zombie brain eater politician.
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colpy
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01:53 PM on 05/15/2012
Brain eater?

Wouldn't he starve to death in the BC legislature???
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11:45 AM on 05/15/2012
I have a great idea for a movie. Something happens (a comet, government experiment gone bad, hell is full, whatever) and zombies start to rise from the ground...but because zombies are so popular, and the world so messed up, people immediately realize what is going on, and using their advanced zombie knowledge they quickly put them down. The whole things ends in the first twenty minutes. I'm not sure what to do for the next hour and ten.
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