Lawyer says zombies can’t be liable for criminal actions

[The Straight Story]

FORT WAYNE, IN – Obviously turning into a zombie would totally suck… but there might be one advantage.

You may not be legally responsible for whoever you kill and eat.

Well, that’s the verdict from Ryan Davidson, a lawyer who focuses on the hypothetical legal ramifications of comic book tropes, characters, and powers…and clearly has way too much time on his hands.

Davidson said it all depends on how the disease works.

If zombies are effectively unconscious, then they would be incapable of performing voluntary actions, therefore immune to criminal liability.

Read more: http://newsfixnow.com/2013/03/31/lawyer-says-zombies-cant-be-liable-for-criminal-actions/#ixzz2PEMDdLMW

[KansDem]

1. Well, that explains a lot...

[talkingmime]

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[SomethingFishy]

6. You...

Have just won the internets.

[cthulu2016]

2. FFS... it's simpler than that. They are DEAD.

An element of any (post-medieval) crime is that the perpetrator is a human being.

A dead person is not, under law, a human being.

Q. E. Motherfucking D.

[Marrah_G]

3. No liabilty and no rights!

Except the right to be deader then dead

[DetlefK]

4. Is it "dead, deader, deadest" or "dead, more dead, most dead" ?

[LibertyLover]

7. I think it goes something like this:

Dead; Republican; Teabagger.

[Javaman]

8. Well thank goodness..

because nothing would be worse than having to litigate millions of zombies after the apocalypse ends.

[Initech]

9. Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh brains...