Francois Pienaar

Francois Pienaar and Nelson Mandela is cheering along with the whole of the stadium.

We have a local festival here in the Blue Mountains, Australia, Winter Magic, where people dress up.

And my predilection is to dressing as a zombie doctor with full latex makeup.

And I'm quite horrifying to look at.

And I love to lurch around the streets, scaring people amongst the crowd.

I'm a full-time paramedic and I've been so for the last 27 years or so.

So I spend a lot of time working in the community and dealing with intensely traumatic scenes.

And for me, dressing as a zombie is an outlet.

And somehow...

gives me a sense of relief, strangely, delighting and also scaring people in a safe way.

So very interesting that people who are otherwise altruistic are somehow attracted to this.