Posted on 10/23/2016 6:53:19 PM PDT by Rebelbase
You know things are going downhill when even clowns can't take a joke.
On the other hand, maybe only clowns know how serious a joke can be.
A small sign put up as a joke in the City Lights Bookshop in London, Ont. sparked a three-ring circus of two angry clowns, two frustrated bookstore employees, and two bicycle-riding police officers Thursday afternoon.
The sign: a clown face with a diagonal bar across it. In other words, No Clowns Allowed.
The sign has been in the store for years. With all the fuss over creepy clowns lately, store co-owner Teresa Tarasewicz said she put it up as a joke.
“We're a light-hearted place,” she said. “We are the clowns inside this place.”
Professional clown Buttons Blammo — Brian Currie in his non-clown life — didn't find it funny and vowed he wouldn't stand for it — even in his oversized shoes.
Accompanied by Lulu Pullitzor Palooza (Lori Ackerman in non-clown life), Blammo showed up at the store with a fat green marker and began writing on the store window
Tarasewicz came out, wiped it out and told him to stop.
“I asked your owner to take down this racist sign,” Blammo said.
“It's not racist,” the actual owner, Tarasewicz, said.
“It's offensive,” Blammo insisted.
“It's a joke,” Tarasewicz insisted back.
The creepy clown scare is ruining the business of professional clowns, Blammo told The London Free Press.
“This sign I see here is profiling . . . all clowns are the same, all clowns are fear clowns, all of us are scary clowns. That's not true.”
Why can't anyone take a joke anymore? Tarasewicz asked after the confrontation, back inside the store.
“There's really not much to say except common sense has fled the building,” she said.
Police managed to defuse the situation, for now at least. Blammo vows he will protest again. Tarasewicz says she won't be intimidated by a couple of clowns to take down the sign.
Asked to comment on the frustration of clowns these days, Clowns Canada president Empress Cherry Sunday, aka Stacey Laureyssens, would only send a statement released a few days ago.
“By standing tall, nose on and shoes shined, we in Clowns Canada can be a beacon — inspiring all to smile, share, lead with love and laughter and let this challenging, unfair spotlight we find ourselves in dissolve quickly,” the statement said.
She later emailed to note that neither Currie nor Ackerman are members of Clowns Canada.
Everybody is a clown so everybody is racist.
Is there any one out there who hasn’t suspected for years that the overall number of Clowns in the population is growing?
Now we have proof, they are a race....they are breeding !
The last time I saw a sign like the one they are protesting, it meant “No Bozos,” and that wasn’t the clown type of Bozo.
Life imitates the Far Side.
Those guys are real clowns.
Nothing but mimes who can’t keep their mouths shut!
Clown Lives Matter!
Clown Lives Matter March Canceled Over Death Threats
The Clown Lives Matter march scheduled to take place tomorrow in Arizona has been canceled after the event’s organizer said she received death threats on social media.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/clown-lives-matter-march-canceled-death-threats/story?id=42805927
Clownface is just a racist portrayal of people in “whiteface.”
If they are real clowns they can juggle at least 4 balls. That should be the test to see if they’re legitimate.
black clowns spatter.
Clowns are NOT a race.
Fixed it. :)
Store owner is clearly a clownist.
Why not let the clowns in the store? The country of Canada is run by a Marxist-lite clown named Trudeau.
The clowns were already here in town this past week to prop up the Queen. OVERSAMPLE, OVERSAMPLE, OVERSAMPLE, ARRGGGH. THESE CLOWNS ARE KILLING ME!!!!!
Should have shoved the clown nose up his butt - while still attached to his face.....
cannibals don’t eat clowns cause they taste funny.
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