Posted on 10/01/2016 9:10:49 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The reports to the police had one thing in common with the circus act involving an improbable number of clowns emerging from a small car.
They just kept coming, and coming, and coming, across multiple states. Clowns in vans. Clowns in the woods. Clowns lurking in the shadows. Clowns chasing people or doing crimes.
But in recent weeks, steady police work has turned the news around, with 12 people facing charges of making false reports or threats, or chasing people, the authorities said. Other cases seem attributable to children with overactive imaginations, teenagers pulling pranks and others with their own reasons for adding to the hysteria. At least one death has been linked to a clown hoax.
On Friday, schools in Reading, Ohio, were closed out of concern for the safety of students after a woman said she was attacked by a man dressed as a clown, the school district announced. A youth was arrested the day before in connection with a clown threat to harm students at a school in Colerain Township, the police said on Facebook.
The first reports of unusual clown sightings surfaced late in August in Greenville County, S.C., with stories that the costumed figures were offering children money to lure them into the woods or were lingering in places and giving residents the heebie-jeebies.
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One less thing to worry about. It is the clowns who don’t wear greasepaint that worry me.
People who are afraid of clowns are the danger to the general population as they are obviously mentally unstable, and a danger to themselves and others.
How about we incarcerate them instead?
And, any man who is afraid of clowns deserves to have his shoes p!ssed on from the adjacent urinal.
Disgusting, crybaby weaklings.
Don’t be a creepy Clown committing crimes
If you can’t do the time.
Don’t do it!
Sounds like a TV episode of Twilight Zone! Could also be a new ISIS maneuver.Just sayin.
Creepy Clown Hoaxes Lead to 12 Dead Clowns in Multiple States
A friend posted a pic on Facebook that one of her friends took of a creepy clown in their backyard. A fenced in backyard. That’s a good way to get shot if you ask me.
John Wayne Gacy,,,
Not a true believer!
I take it that you are a fan of some of the famous clowns, like John Wayne Gacy.
I knew this was fake from day one.
For my Dobes, it would be a like a ‘fun circus’ that has home delivery.
:D
Mass hysteria.
Yes the clown threat is what most worries me. /s
Clown Lives Matter
Of course not.
I prefer Bozo, grew up with him in fact.
Why, are you scared of clowns?
Why be afraid? The creepy clowns would be dead.
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