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The 3rd annual fun run (about 3 km) was held about an hour before twilight on 23 October at the city park. The theme each year is "run for your life" and consists of some runners playing zombies (the undead with an appetite for live human brains) and the rest trying to get to the snacks at the end of the race without losing their velcro hip flags; losing both flags signifies you have been "gotten" by the zombies and thus in the course of events become one of them, too. Some of the zombie players display the mannerisms shown on the silver screen in recent years of popular or cult movies concerning zombies. It seems a strange pursuit, even when the halloween night is about a week away. But then, knowing that mass culture, consumer culture, mass media is so pervasive makes it understandable that so many recognize the subject matter and indeed wish to take part in the fund-raising event to help pay for the recently installed Spray Park nearby.