ayiman:

I don’t find this LOL OMG ZOMBIES shit really all that funny.

Like, an old fella who wasn’t really any bother to anyone is fighting for his life, right?

and people, mentally ill people under extreme amounts of stress, snap. Sometimes it’s a quiet thing in the dark corner of their subconscious. Other times it’s public, it’s violent, it’s loud, and it takes other innocents with it. I cannot stress that enough, that these people are sick and that something, somewhere along the line, utterly failed them.

Sometimes it’s drug-induced.  Sometimes it isn’t.  There is really no lowest common denominator, and it happens all the time.  Everywhere.

and I swear to you, once you’re having to tie someone down to their stretcher because their condition has advanced to the point where they are a danger to themselves and others, you will no longer find this shit funny either.

What happened to Ronald Poppo and Rudy Eugene was a tragedy. Fullstop.

That it’s become some crass meme for zombie-obsessed chuckleheads is, sadly, more typical of just how profoundly fucked-up and disconnected we are as a society than anything that happened under that causeway in Miami.