"There's a natural phobia of clowns," Sgt. Joe Grubbs of the Bakersfield Police Department told ABC News today.
Huh? When I was a kid clowns were part of a circus act and made you laugh. And then there was Bozo. I have have never associated clowns with scary or creepy.
I read somewhere that the "evil/scary clown" meme is a very recent phenomenon tied to contemporary anxieties and has no roots in the past.
All I know is that when I was a little bitty kid, the man on the left in this picture was my hero:
I absolutely adored him. I would put on old aprons, even old dresses, and pretend I was him. I think he's still alive. His real name is Bev Bergeron.
