"I quite understandably mistook [the photographer] for a zombie"

Woody Harrelson is already making a case for himself as WHS Man of the Year.

He beat up a paparazzo outside La Guardia airport the other day because he 'mistook the photographer for a zombie.'

"I wrapped a movie called 'Zombieland,' in which I was constantly under assault by zombies, then flew to New York, still very much in character," Harrelson said in a statement issued Friday by his publicist.

At that point the photographer/zombie got all up in his grill and Woody assaulted him and broke his camera.

I can't wait to use a 'Zombie excuse' of my own soon.

Full report at CNN.com.