Denver Zombie Mall Crawl Organizers Have To Pay $1,000 To Clean Up Fake Blood

Organizers of last Saturday's annual Zombie Mall Crawl are being forced by the Downtown Denver Partnership to pay $1,000 to clean up the fake blood that was left on store fronts, banners and buses this weekend.

The event's organizer, Daniel Newman, told Westword Wednesday that the Downtown Denver Partnership considered the residual fake blood to be akin to graffiti:

"Basically, the Downtown Denver Partnership, the guys who manage the mall, without e-mailing us or asking us if we could help clean up, considered all the fake blood to be the same as graffiti and handed it to that department," Newman says. "So we got a little over $1,000 worth of reimbursement charges for graffiti cleanup."

Newman told the Denver Daily News Thursday that he understands that the city doesn't want fake blood all over, but said authorities failed to communicate what adequate clean-up would entail, or what the consequences would be for failure to clean.

He said that, if they had told him he needed to clean up more, "We (would) have had a full cleanup crew that would have been on the mall immediately,"

Newman said he paid $2,000 for the event out of his own pocket, and will pay the fine himself.