Flesh-craving undead not for me

Settle down everyone. There apparently is no zombie apocalypse.

You wouldn’t know it by all the recent Facebook posts about the grisly and absolutely tragic attack Memorial Day weekend by a naked man on a 65-year-old homeless man sleeping near a Miami causeway.

A growling Rudy Eugene, 31, was shot and killed by police as he ate Ronald Poppo’s face.

The Miami Herald says he tore off the man’s nose, mouth and ripped out his eyes for nearly 18 minutes.

CNN and others have labeled Eugene the zombie attacker. Other liken the former high school football player to the fictional cannibal Hannibal Lecter.

Yesterday zombies of another sort will roam around the Oregon District as part of the fourth annual Zombie Walk in the Oregon District.

An estimated 600 area residents dressed as the undead at last year’s creep through the city’s entertainment district. Blood will appear to ooze and there will be groans and moans to go around.

I wasn’t there for last year’s or this year’s walk. When it comes to supernatural creatures, I rank zombies dead last.

There is nothing appealing about being a mindless, fleshcraving animal and there is nothing appealing about being chased or eaten by a mindless, flesh-craving animal.

Ronald Poppo’s wholly disturbing nightmare made it all too real — all too possible.

The thought that you can all of a sudden be attacked by an animal that is actually a human has to be a universal primal fear.

I know a lot of people like zombies.

With its political subtext, George A. Romero’s 1968 cult hit “Night of the Living Dead” redefined zombies.

Zombie this and that now can be found in libraries and all around the World Wide Web.

That’s all good and well, really it is, but I couldn’t watch past the first little girl zombie holding the stuffed animal on the first episode of AMC’s “The Walking Dead.”

It is all too much for my delicate soul.

I’d rather walk and live with the living, no matter how annoying they sometimes can be.

What do you think? Which is your least favorite species of supernatural beings?

Last week, Amelia asked readers if they thought Dayton has a self-esteem problem.

Here are a few of the responses posted to Facebook.com/ Daytondailynews. Join the conversation.

Jamie McQuinn — “Dayton Haters: Leave. You won’t be missed.”

Holley Ogletree — “As a transplant from another region, I like Dayton very much. I’ve been here about a year now. Maybe it takes an outside perspective to see that Dayton has a lot of good qualities, but it definitely does.”

Andrew Hunt — “Awesome facts about Dayton: only major city to have an aquifer (underground spring), has the most patents (you know inventions) per capita than any city in the world, the home of the Wright brothers, the Sheens/Estevezs, and the first major AfricanAmerican poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. I may get annoyed with it from time to time, but I’ve both worked in it and gone to both it’s major schools, and it’s a good town to be from.”

Christine Sabolsky-Bettinger — “Does anyone ever travel to different cities? The news is the same all over the world. I’ve lived in the Dayton area for 19 years, have lived downtown for six. Good news, bad news, I love this little big town!”