TRIP WIRES

Would you be daft enough to fall over a piece of string that was tied across the bottom of a doorway? Of course you wouldn’t. Putting trip wires across doors was the kind of thing that Dennis the Menace did. It was a childish prank that no self-respecting adult would ever fall for in a million years. It is tantamount to putting cling film over a toilet seat, or glueing all the tissues together in a tissue box, or putting a dead sparrow in your grandmother’s hotpot that she was making for the family dinner. Silly, silly, childish games.

Unlike these silly, silly, childish games, though, trip wires can be effective against the undead because zombies really aren’t as clever as us normal humans. A zombie will be focused on its prey so will pay little attention to what is tied across a door. If the trip wire is attached securely enough it will send a zombie toppling over and give you time to escape or bring your foot down on its head. If there are multiple zombies it will cause a pile-up of corpses, again allowing you to escape in the ensuing confusion. If you have the correct supplies you could even make the trip wire out of barbed wire or cheese wire. This way the zombie may lose his feet and give you even more chance of either defeating him or escaping. It is with this in mind that we recommend setting up trip wires throughout your safe house. As an added bonus don’t tell anyone else you are doing it – watching your teammates fall over every time they walk into a room will cheer you up in the dark days of the apocalypse and will also give you advance warning of who you may wish to get rid of early on in your survival regime before they slip on a banana skin and get you all killed.