PATIENT # 184 - TYRONE

Goal: Travel from cache to cache in search of BRAAAAINS.  Visit Geocaching events.  Spread the plague.  Please take photos!

Meet Tyrone a zombie who has become patient number 184 in our study of the propagation of the zombie plague via geocaching.  Tyrone was a large man (but with Morton’s Toe), soft spoken, a groomed dogs for a living.  He was fascinated by the idea of trackables, the more bizarre or esoteric the object, the more that trackable appealed to him.   

We believe that Tyrone contracted the zombie plague from patient # 161, Alejandro.  They both shared a fascination for odd trackables, and both converged on Geo Woodstock XIII with the intent of obtaining the same trackable that had been dropped in the event.  A cacher whose name we’ve been forced to keep private had passed on, had his ashes sealed in a series resin orbs, which were then each released as trackables so he “could cointinue to geocache after death.”  It was one of these that Tyrone and Alejandro were after at Geo Woodstock XIII in Boonsboro, Maryland, and we know from some of the event volunteers that they both were adamant about getting that particular travel bug.  Unfortunately, this argument led to fisticuffs, and we believe that Tyrone must have ingested some of Alejandro’s bodily fluids as a result of the fight, resulting in him contracting the plague.  An interesting side note to this interaction is that neither of these individuals ended up with the travel bug in question.  It ended up in the hands of a cacher from Oregon who took it back to the west coast, and in just a frw days, it was then moved to a cache in New Zealand!           

This travel bug is part of a larger study to take a closer look at how the zombie plague might propagate if the primary vector for spreading the disease was geocaching.  Please visit the following website for further details, and a visualization of how the disease has propagated thus far based on the movement and discovery of this and other infected Zombie travel bugs:

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