Posted on 09/28/2013 6:48:00 AM PDT by Kip Russell
When the inevitable zombie apocalypse begins and brain-devouring hordes of the living dead start destroying civilization, Orlando will be prepared.
Tucked away in strip mall off Sand Lake Road near International Drive is one of the country’s only shops dedicated to killing the undead: the Zombie Survival store.
“ Zombies get people excited”, said owner Kurt Josephs, who also owns Josephs Liquor & Fine Wines located next door. “It’s a craze right now.”
Stocked with surplus supplies from the U.S. Army and Navy, the Zombie Survival store has almost everything to combat flesh-eating zombies, including gas masks, boots, camouflage shirts, backpacks, MREs, machetes.
There’s also life-sized, three-dimensional zombie targets that actually bleed when hit and official United Sates Zombie Hunting Permits.
And if killing the walking dead isn’t your thing, fans of zombies can purchase an array of corpse paraphernalia: Zombie purses, zombie books, zombie caution tape, severed heads, zombie garden gnomes, zombie stickers, blood-spattered table cloths and zombie candy.
“If you like zombies, we got zombie stuff for you,” Josephs said.
Opened since April, the Zombie Survival store is the brainchild of Josephs, who also operates a costume store at the end of the strip mall. In the past few years, Josephs said he began seeing a rise in the popularity of zombies, singling out AMC’s “The Walking Dead.”
Josephs said he told several friends he wanted to open a store – the only other one in the U.S. besides The Zombie Apocalypse Store in Las Vegas – to cater exclusively to zombie enthusiasts.
“They (his friends) laughed at me,” Josephs said.
His wife supported the idea, and so Josephs moved ahead, and spent six months going to trade shows and conventions in search for zombie-themed items for the shop.
“It’s crazy the stuff they come out with,”
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It is EXACTLY that to which I was referring; even a horde of zombies don’t stand a chance against you and, out on the road, you can easily and comfortably carry two or three thousand rounds.
Yes, I’ve heard great things about the 10/22; in fact, it seems to be the best little .22 around.
don't forget the Zombie Wolf...
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