Sydney's Zombies continue Earth Hour with blackout

Sydney's blackout on Sunday March 30 2009 created a buzz of speculation on the net regarding its cause, and according to the majority of Twitter users, it was due to an unprecedented zombie attack on the City of Sydney.

This comes just two days after Sydney voluntarily shrouded itself in darkness for an hour in solidarity with Earth Hour, leaving officials to speculate if it wasn't the undead's own efforts to partake in the environmental movement or the first leg of a campaign to devour the city. Zombies generally never do things by half, and given the slow movements of reanimated corpses, along with their questionable eating habits, it is understandable they were slow in blacking the city out at the specified time, factoring in the lethargy and the time it takes to actually acquire and eat brains.

To a different though perhaps not entirely unrelated topic, the NSW Government is set to trial the electric car in a plan to make its fleet emissions free. An Electric Vehicle Taskforce has been announced which will look at barriers that may exist to the introduction of electric cars. Given the events of the weekend, one would seriously hope they consider the possibility that the zombie legions have indeed noted our society's reliance on electricity, and whether an electric car would really make the best getaway vehicle should such an uprising ever become a reality.

Seriously, people. Think about it...