NW: If you are going to be dressing up in a costume for Halloween, you might want to avoid dressing like a creepy clown, considering the sinister clown hysteria sweeping the nation. You don’t want to wear a clown costume in Kentucky where a sheriff contacted the FBI and Homeland Security over the “creepy clown” threat. In fact, in Gallatin County, Kentucky, the sheriff warned that people behind “clown threats” might face charges of “inducing panic and terroristic threatening.”
Pennywise from Stephen King’s It really ruined clowns for a lot of people, changing their opinion of clowns from funny or cute to scary and creepy as can be.
When the evil clown craze first started cranking up, some people suggested the clown sightings were pranks tied to some sort of promotion for the upcoming film It. Others suggested the clown sightings were inspired by Rob Zombie’s film 31, which includes kidnapped hostages trying to survive a violent game against a gang of sadistic clowns.
Reports of seeing menacing clowns spread fast through social media and often end up on the news. It seems to have started in August in Greenville, South Carolina, where clowns allegedly were trying to lure kids into the woods. From there, it ballooned into reports of people in clown costumes lurking in parks, assaulting people, chasing people and even threatening to kill people.
Often, the creepy clown sightings are just pranks, yet clowns have become such a threat that police have reverted to the terrorist threat motto of “if you see something, say something.” MORE
Darke County (Ohio) Sheriff Toby Spencer took to his personal Facebook page to warn would-be clowns that his people are armed.
“As of today we have issued 6,125 CCW permits in Darke County alone…..just a number to consider the next time you think about donning your clown outfit,” Spencer wrote.
A cop in White Hall, Arkansas got into trouble for dressing up like a clown. Crazy world.
I hate clowns.
Law enforcement targets clowns and no one said anything.
Will mimes be next?
Are puppets far behind?
Mimes (and Chilean flute players at State and County fairs) should be shot with an imaginary pop gun, especially mimes and left inside a circle drawn on the ground with chalk outlines.
I’d like to see parking meter enforcers all dress as evil clowns.
Type casting, I know, but even so…
I’d rather see a clown than a burka.
The biggest clown in the country doesn’t even wear a costume. He lives at the White House.
And he goes by the name O’BOZO!
Demtards have been dressing like assclowns for decades. Better arrest them… THINK of the children… 😉