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Clownpocalypse: Clown Sightings Spread to Florida, Virginia and Colorado
Heatstreet ^ | 4:00 pm, September 27, 2016 | By Emily Zanotti

Posted on 09/27/2016 5:53:12 PM PDT by Mariner

Reports of “killer clowns” have emerged in three new states, as Virginia, Florida and Colorado struggle with Internet rumors and reported sightings that have left several towns shaken.

Residents and authorities in Palm Bay, Fla., have been on high alert since a resident reported seeing two “creepy clowns” staring at her from across a road as she walked her dog. And in Marion County, Fla., deputies are concerned after it emerged that a Facebook viral video, depicting a clown standing silently on the side of the road in the dark, had been filmed along a main thoroughfare in the area.

The video has more than a million views on Facebook.

In Henrico County, Va., a mother and daughter captured a “creepy clown” leering at them from another car during rush hour.

(Excerpt) Read more at heatst.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Colorado; US: Florida; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: clowns; henrico; panic; virginia
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To: Mariner

Actually, I think you hit on the reason for some of these “sightings.” A new version of King’s “It” is coming out soon. Nothing like dressing up folks and paying them a few bucks to make for a cheap and effective nationwide publicity stunt.


21 posted on 09/27/2016 6:08:33 PM PDT by JennysCool
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To: Mariner

This idiocy stops the moment someone shoots a clown. Not that I necessarily advocate such a thing, but if some idiot decides to play rapist or kidnapper while made up as a clown, it is pretty much inevitable.


22 posted on 09/27/2016 6:08:50 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Newton

Boom! I’m lmao over here thinking about those big ol’ O’Dumbo ears.


23 posted on 09/27/2016 6:09:08 PM PDT by Navin Johnson
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To: Navin Johnson

24 posted on 09/27/2016 6:09:30 PM PDT by CJ Wolf (just a conspiracy theory, no facts behind the above post.)
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To: Mariner

I see a bunch of well ventilated clowns in someone’s future.


25 posted on 09/27/2016 6:09:56 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Vote for your guns!)
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To: Viking2002

It’s all fun and games until... a creepy clown comes to my house! ‘It’ freaked me out!! I hate clowns!!!


26 posted on 09/27/2016 6:10:19 PM PDT by ANKE69 (Trump !)
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To: Mariner

I think one of them is Tim Kaine.


27 posted on 09/27/2016 6:10:39 PM PDT by usafa92 (Trump 2016 - Destroying the GOPe while Making America Great Again!)
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To: WENDLE; PLMerite
And I want to dress up like a clown so I can get arrested.

That was I could challenge one of the silly-assed laws, and prevail.

Hopefully also shame some adults who are scared of clowns.

28 posted on 09/27/2016 6:14:03 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: CJ Wolf

*ROFL* Great pic!!!!!!!!!


29 posted on 09/27/2016 6:14:36 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Mariner

killer clowns from outer space predates kings’ book to movie, I believe.

insane clown posse doesnt help the image either.


30 posted on 09/27/2016 6:15:11 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Mariner

“And didn’t he also have his own kids show for a while? “
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See my other comment about local TV Bozos.

There was also Clarabell the Clown on “Howdy Doody”. He was played by diff guys, including Bob Keeshan (aka Catain Kangaroo).

This vid of the one and only time Clarabell ever said anything (”Goodbye, kids.”), on the very last Howdy Doody show would probably seem pretty freaky-deaky these days:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZqe3Uo0heQ


31 posted on 09/27/2016 6:15:13 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: Mariner

Swing state ping! /sarc.


32 posted on 09/27/2016 6:15:16 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: Ancesthntr
"but if some idiot decides to play rapist or kidnapper while made up as a clown, it is pretty much inevitable"

There are EXACTLY ZERO reports of a "clown" committing any crime besides dressing up as a clown.

Which, bizarrely, is now a crime in America.

33 posted on 09/27/2016 6:17:12 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: golas1964
“I’ve looked at clowns from both sides now...”

Was that a Judy Clowney song?

34 posted on 09/27/2016 6:17:21 PM PDT by Calusa (Let our children be dreamers, too! Donald Trump (and Kellyanne Conway))
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To: golas1964
“I’ve looked at clowns from both sides now...”

"Clowns to the left of me....Jokers to the right...."

35 posted on 09/27/2016 6:20:25 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: usafa92

clown lives matter


36 posted on 09/27/2016 6:20:52 PM PDT by Craftmore
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To: LouieFisk

Willard Scott played Bozo the Clown in the early 60s in DC. I was on his show once when they would take a kid out of the audience and interact with Bozo.


37 posted on 09/27/2016 6:24:23 PM PDT by wrench
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To: Calusa

Uh, Judy Clown-ins, yes. XD


38 posted on 09/27/2016 6:24:45 PM PDT by golas1964
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To: wrench

That’s right. I forgot Willard was a Bozo back in the day.


39 posted on 09/27/2016 6:25:52 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: golas1964

“Clowns in my coffee”


40 posted on 09/27/2016 6:27:22 PM PDT by HotKat (Politicians are like diapers; they need to be changed often and for the same reason. Mark Twain)
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