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When Lakewood police received a call on Saturday afternoon regarding a large street fight, they might have thought they’d be dealing with some good ol’ suburban riffraff.

What they found when they approached a bus stop on Clifton Avenue, however, was far from the classic brawler- in fact, it was other worldly.

A large group of re-enactors dressed as zombies had taken to the streets and were avidly engaging in some sort of staged combat sequence.

The Plain Dealer reports it’s unclear exactly what the group was re-enacting, but noted that the event did occur just before the Season 4 premiere of The Walking Dead, which aired last night on AMC.

Details aside, we’re pretty pumped there’s a large group of locals who will spend their Saturdays in zombie getups throwin’ air punches.

Now see: Video: This Footage of Geauga Lake Amusement Park Looks Like Something Straight Out of the Walking Dead>>

This article appears in Oct 9-15, 2013.

Alaina Nutile is the Web Editor who oversees all digital content and social media initiatives for Cleveland Scene Magazine and Detroit Metro Times. Before joining the staff in June 2013, she interned at Business Insider in New York City, and at La Hora in Quito, Ecuador. Alaina is a graduate of Kalamazoo College in Michigan, where she double majored in English and Spanish. Her interests include Japanese food, Breaking Bad, and career development advising.

4 replies on “Lakewood Police Respond to Call of Street Fight, Find Zombie Re-Enactment Instead”

  1. It was a zombie walk for the Cleveland Food Bank. They’ll be coming back to the 5 O’Clock on Detroit Road twice a year starting next spring.

  2. This is the most bizarrely written article, considering the popularity and well-known nature of these zombie events, the fact that this was a small one in comparison to the usual, and that these things have been going on in that area once or twice a year for almost a decade now. Seriously, is there anyone out there that doesn’t know what a zombie walk is, at this point? ” Pretty pumped there’s a large group of locals who will spend their Saturdays in zombie getups.” There was one just a couple streets over, on Madison, just a couple weeks ago with higher attendance. And these local walks, the ones organized by Old School Sinema at least, have been covered in the local press probably a dozen times.

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