Austin, Texas - odd encounter.

[Littoria]

So this happened a few months ago.

My girlfriend and I were spending a few days in Austin.
I for one, love the city.. but this encounter made me realize how unprepared I am for the Austin culture.
Gf and I were walking down south congress looking for a place to eat. Not finding any of the walk in Diners appetizing, we decided to walk across the street to the trailers.
Once there we noticed we were the only ones on that side aside from the people in the trailers doing their own stuff.
As we are standing on the side walk far enough from the trailers to view them all at once, this young lady ran fast right behind us from the south towards the north.
By the time we turn around to follow her, a large man runs past us as well.
As they crossed one of the streets that hit south congress without getting struck by any of the cars, the guy catches up to the girl and slams her to the ground and gets on top of her.
between the "what the heck" and the "Hell no" that went through my head, I found myself running towards them.
The man gets up and starts walking slowly away while the lady remained on the ground not moving...
Meanwhile two other girls turn the corner and start walking south on south congress.
At this point the man starts chasing them towards me... well us.. I now realize my girlfriend is right by my side.
The two girls pass the girl on the ground, and after short they reach us.
THe guy is still running behind them, and im thinking whats wrong with the dude going around knocking out women..
As the girls pass us, they say:
"Run!!! Hes a zombie"

....what?!?!?

So I immediately stop in my tracks, "seriously?!"
The lady on the ground starts to get up and limp towards us with a zombie like walk...

This all happened in a matter of seconds. Im glad those two girls said what they said.. bc in all honesty.. this guy was much larger than I am..
I mean of course I could have taken him... lol
But wow, thats all I could say when I realized what was going on.
It could have turned out much worse.
I joked with my gf: you cant do this in houston, youd get shot.

IdK, I was unprepared for that event.


After my gf had a talk about why she was following me, we agreed that in the future one of us should immediately call the police instead of both of us trying to help.
I suppose I should have said "call the police" the moment I took off.

Thoughts anyone??

[jmra]

Thoughts? Bunch of idiots in Austin.

[mewalke]

[Redneck_Buddha]

Always keepin' it weird. A situation where it's a good thing to wait for all the facts before acting. In a less "weird" place, the guy may have ended up ventilated.

[anygunanywhere]

They were indeed zombies. The same creatures that put the existing menace in the WH.

Anygunanywhere

[eureka40]

Ever since I can remember, hookers have always worked South Congress. That was most likely her pimp beating the snot out of her.

Stay away from South Congress in the future.

[knotquiteawake]

Zombie Tag! Sounds like fun as long as no overzealous CHL'er takes a shot at you!

[RPBrown]

I think we need to jack up Austin and send it to comyfornia with all of their zombies

[Excaliber]

California is metastasizing.

[nyj]

No, they were hipster zombies.



Oh, Austin. I love when I work in Austin, but can not stand the place.

[mamabearCali]

That is a fairly stupid game to play.....it is not just you.....what if a cop saw and thought he was assaulting the girl. He could have ended up dead that way too. Good heavens!

When I was young and stupid people took sleeping bags to the mall and worm wrestled, but this beat even that. For the record, I did not worm wrestle......I took pictures!

[anygunanywhere]

That is a fairly stupid game to play.....it is not just you.....what if a cop saw and thought he was assaulting the girl. He could have ended up dead that way too. Good heavens!

When I was young and stupid people took sleeping bags to the mall and worm wrestled, but this beat even that. For the record, I did not worm wrestle......I took pictures!

I must lead a really sheltered life because I have never heard of this.

Anygunanywhere

[Littoria]

Haha. Regardless I still love austin. I know many gun people dont, but its a cool city to me.
Minus this experience of course.
Glad you all see it pretty much as I did. The guy could have seriously been injured even by cops as the poster above me wrote!

ONe final question that I came up with after reading your replys... does this mean yall dont go to or try to avoid going to austin in general?

[Littoria]

That is a fairly stupid game to play.....it is not just you.....what if a cop saw and thought he was assaulting the girl. He could have ended up dead that way too. Good heavens!

When I was young and stupid people took sleeping bags to the mall and worm wrestled, but this beat even that. For the record, I did not worm wrestle......I took pictures!

I must lead a really sheltered life because I have never heard of this.

Anygunanywhere

Nor have I!!! It sounds funny though! Id like to see those pictures!