The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: Dangerous by default

4) Accidents can happen.

Season two of The Walking Dead ended with a massive herd descending upon Hershel’s farm, forcing the group to flee.

…Do you remember how that herd got there?

The short answer is: By accident.

You see, when Rick spotted a helicopter as he entered Atlanta, he wasn’t the only one. A few walkers also noticed the vehicle fly by, and began to follow it. As they marched in the direction the helicopter went, their motion and noise attracted more walkers, and so on, and so on, and so on, until, eventually, they amassed into a huge herd, and, through their sheer collective weight, broke through the fences at the border of Hershel’s land and swarmed.

The reason I’m talking about this is because I want to impress upon you how, without intending to, Hell, without even knowing it, someone else can cause you huge problems.

While we certainly can’t know everything about zombies, we’d be safe in assuming that, like us, they’re draw to sounds and movement, even if those sounds or movements are relatively innocuous. Think about this: If someone miles away from you makes a sound (Which will carry much better in the apocalypse, by the way) or a movement that a zombie notices, that zombie, unless something else distracts it, will keep going in the direction of whatever caught their attention, likely drawing any other zombies that notice it, and building a herd in the process. You could wind up under attack from an army of zombies one day just because someone you never met, and didn’t even know about, made a noise weeks ago, and happened to be in the same direction as where you ended up going.

This is why you need to be as alert as you possibly can be, because, the rest of the world will still be happening all around you, and, ultimately affecting you, even if you don’t realize it’s happening.