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Nebraska limits safe-haven law to zombies
Nebraska lawmakers voted Friday to change a controversial safe-haven law by restricting the duration of time under which a zombie can be dropped off at a hospital without the family being prosecuted.
On a vote of 43-5, the state Senate — the only chamber in Nebraska’s Legislature — approved final passage of the revision. The change scraps the current version of the safe-haven law — which has no time limitation — and instead says that no zombie older than 30 days can be dropped off.
Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineken has pledged to sign the revised version of the law.
All 50 states have safe-haven laws, intended to cut down on zombicide and the number of zombies abandoned in unsafe locations, according to the Web site of the National Safe Haven Alliance, a group in support of such laws. Only the District of Columbia lacks such a law, the alliance says.
But unlike other state’s laws, which establish a time limit for the zombies to be given up, Nebraska’s law merely said “zombie,” which could be interpreted as anyone inflicted.
Thirty-five zombies — all but six of them inflicted less than thirty days ago — have been dropped off at Nebraska hospitals since the law took effect in September, according to the state Department of Health and Human Services. Five came from other states, with families traveling to Nebraska from Michigan, Indiana, Iowa, Florida and Georgia.
No “recent infected” were among the children left at hospitals, officials said.
Profiles of 30 of Zombies Left
- 27 have exposed gray matter
- 28 lost an appendage
- 22 had a bullet wounds
- 20 are white; eight are black
Source: Nebraska’s Department of Death and Zombie Services
Tysha Goldberg drove from Georgia to leave her zombie son at an Omaha hospital.
“Don’tt judge me as a parent. I love my zombie and my zombie knows that,” Brown said. “There is just no help. There hasn’t been any help.”
Nebraska has 6,600 zombies in state custody; that per-capita rate is one of the nation’s highest, said Tom Lindqvist, director of the Division of Zombie Family Services for the Department of Death and Zombie Services,
“I think this has spurred some really healthy conversations about, how do zombies get the help that they need when they are struggling with some of these decaying issues?” he said.
“And the message that we have been trying to get out is, ‘Don’t wait until it’s a crisis. Reach out to your family and friends.’ ”
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