The Walking Dead location resident just wants to trim his tree in peace
Also, he says he could probably do without all the explosions happening in the middle of the night
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Your support makes all the difference.Surprise! Turns out, having an entire horde of zombies invade your neighbourhood isn't quite as fun as you'd think.
Granted, many residents in the quiet town of Senoia, Georgia are thrilled to have their homes used as the location for The Walking Dead's Alexandria and Woodbury; thanks to it bringing a huge influx of tourists and money into the area, and presumably the perfect excuse for always being the host house for holiday family gatherings.
Others, however, just wish they could they could indulge in a little horticulture without the cops turning up. Resident Fred Morris told ABC news (via Yahoo! News) that producers once actually called the police on him when he decided to trim his trees in the middle of shooting.
"They come out of there saying I need to stop because they're filming," Morris recalled. "I said, ‘Well, no, you just carry your happy butt right behind the wall, that's where you do your stuff. This is my home.'"
Morris complained that the area had always been peaceful before the cameras moved in and a large wall was constructed around the entire neighbourhood; living just outside the wall, Morris claims he's been heavily disturbed by explosions in the middle of the night during the course of the show's filming.
Scott Tigchelaar, however, has an entirely different perspective; "Even Andy Lincoln, who plays the star of the show... I met him on my front porch steps one day and he said, ‘Thank you so much for letting us film here,’ and I’m like, ‘Thank you for filming here.’ But they're that polite."
"You walk along and people tell you not to stop and take pictures, but it's, like, this is my community," another local, Tracy Boyle stated.
"The people that come here... it's so good for the local economy and people stay in the hotels, eat at the restaurants, shop at the stores," added Christine Fiorini. "A lot of these downtown businesses are run by our neighbors... it's, you know, become our livelihood and it’s thriving."
In fact, the show even pays many of the local families $400 a month; not only as an apology for the inconvenience, but as a kind of silencer against any potential spoilers leaking.
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