Unlike those apparently native to Haiti, ours look and dress like ordinary people. Identification is easy, as they slouch along one arm is extended to the front and there's a mobile phone in that hand.


From my all too brief experience of this new species it seems that they're animated by this phone. Apart from an apparent suicidal inclination to amble aimlessly across roads they seem to be harmless as a species. There is a 'sub-species', however, that threatens the safety of all others. This sub-species tends to thunder along in a truck of the 4x4 genus in a similar state of insensibility.


My only encounter with this hopefully rare creature was on Hardwick Road and noting the obvious mindless state of the vehicle's occupant gave it a very wide berth.
Perhaps we ought to be equipped with assault rifles, as in the Hollywood zombie movies, to put these poor creatures out of their misery.


BILL HOULDER
Willow Park
Pontefract