A bad batch of K2 made the streets of Brooklyn look like the site of a zombie apocalypse Tuesday morning, as zonked-out users shambled and collapsed on the streets of Bushwick and Bedford-Stuyvesant and 33 people were treated.
“It was like a scene out of ‘The Walking Dead.’ They were zombied out,” said Brian Arthur, 38, who grew up in Bed-Stuy.
The rash of hospitalizations began after someone called 911 to report people with “altered mental status” on Stockton St. near Myrtle Ave. in Bed-Stuy around 9:40 a.m., officials said.
Firefighters, cops, and paramedics responded and found 33 semi-conscious people in several locations there and in nearby Bushwick. Sources said it was likely caused by ingestion of K2, a type of synthetic marijuana.
“It was a horrible scene,” Arthur said. “They were laid out twitching on the floor. Some of them were motionless. This is nothing you’d want your kids to see.”
One woman who was being tended to by a cop was barely conscious, with her eyes rolled back in her head.
A man laid curled up on the sidewalk vomiting with his pants pulled down. Another man looked like he was sleep-walking as cops tried to coax him into an ambulance.
Little packages bearing the street names of the drug — including “White Tiger” and “Dank” — were strewn on the ground.
The patients were taken to Woodhull Hospital and Wyckoff Heights Medical Center.
An ambulance that was transporting one of the patients was flagged down at Marcus Garvey Blvd. and Myrtle Ave. to deal with another patient who was said to be combative.