Posted on 10/06/2016 11:01:57 AM PDT by nickcarraway
An epidemic of clown sightings is spreading across America – and no one is laughing any more
he first person to spot a clown, the patient zero in the current epidemic of threatening clowns sightings spreading across the US, was a little boy at a low-income apartment complex in Greenville, South Carolina.
He ran to his mother, Donna Arnold, and told her what he had seen: two clowns in the woods, both brightly dressed and made up. One with a red fright wig and the other with a black star painted on his face. They whispered something to the boy.
“They were trying to lure him to the house,” his mother told me, pointing toward the woods.
A path into the woods led down into a shaded hollow, at the bottom of which was a small pond. Beside it sat a house that seemed abandoned. Someone had boarded up the windows, and the balcony sagged. New bags of potting soil sat near the basement door, though. And a modern security system looked recently installed.
After sunset a car approached the house; a gleaming white, new-model Mercedes that looked as out of place as any clown car. The driver stepped out and said she had recently bought the old house as an investment because it sits on five acres in an otherwise densely populated area. “You think it looks bad now, you should have seen it before I came in,” she said.
While we talked she wore an in-ear headset, so it wasn’t always clear whether she was speaking to me or someone on her phone.
No, she didn’t want to give her name, she said.
Yes, she had heard about the clown sightings.
She gestured toward the apartment complex through the trees. “Every one of them has a phone, and can
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I wondered where Timmy was campaigning at...now we know...
We cannot profile these clowns!!
run away ... run away ... run away!!!
Do you realize you can buy a water-squirting flower with no background check at all?
how about Klownie the Kenyan in the White Hut?
Three cannibals were eating a clown. One says to the other, “Does this taste funny to you?”
Used to be that when you sighted a clown, you said, “Look, a clown.”
What changed?
An epidemic of clown sightings is spreading across America – and no one is laughing any more
This ramps it up about ten notches.
“It’s a tough moment for clowns. But David Kiser, Ringling Bros’ CLOWN EXPERT, said they will never disappear completely.
‘They will have to evolve,’ he said. ‘But clowns hold up a mirror on society, so we can see the absurd in ourselves. So to be afraid of them is ultimately to be afraid of yourself.’”
I guess I’m a’skeered of myself, then, according to this CLOWN EXPERT! I hate Clowns. They’re creepy.
"Zero"? "Clown"? "Threatening"?
I’ve been looking at that stupid clown in the White House for almost eight years now.
I’m used to seeing clowns.
Homo perverts. Who else tries to trap young boys into following them to abandoned houses.
I want to hear more about the woman’s house and how she’s fixing it up.
But, seriously - There’s a bunch of copy cat stuff going on. There has been a couple of assaults that perhaps by chance a clown mask was used, but it has been enough to heighten the hysteria.
Now that is day-um funny! Thanks for the laugh.
What changed?
Steven King
Clown Rights!!! It’s in the Constitution, right after “gay marriage.”
I have hated clowns since 1945 when I was 5 years old. At the circus a clown tricked me by handing me a bunch of paper flowers. When I took them I ended up with a bunch of stems and the clown had the paper flowers in his hand. He laughed at me but I fixed him! I hit him in the face with my cotton candy and messed up his make up. He stomped of and had to go clean is face up. Funny memory!
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