'Where were they going?': Hundreds of people start walking to… nowhere?
Office workers on Collins Street in Melbourne got a taste of the zombie apocalypse this week when they looked out their windows to see a huge crowd ambling silently in the same direction.
“At first we thought it was a protest,” Yuri Sayle, bank teller, said of the scene. “Some of us went outside and asked them what they were doing, but we got nothing. It was like they were hypnotised or something.”
Sayle said he and his co-workers tried everything short of physical contact to get members of the crowd to respond, but to no avail. They kept walking, staring ahead. Not a word spoken.
Eventually he and a few workmates gave up and joined in.
“It was all we could think about at that stage,” Sayle admitted. “Where were they going?”
He captured the moment on video and posted it on Facebook.
As the peaceful zombies stopped at Federation Square, it was only when the music started playing Thriller and everyone began dancing that the penny dropped for Sayle.
“It was a flash mob!” Sayle said. “They were advertising a new flavour of corn chip. Cool.”
The bank didn’t think it was cool when they found their front counter unmanned, however. Sayle and his runaway co-workers were slapped with official warnings the moment they returned to work.
