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I remember a few years ago when students at certain college campuses were spotting Klansmen behind every tree. Now it's malevolent clowns. I wonder what starts and maintains that kind of hysteria.
Just imagine what Halloween is going to look like. So - is that someone dressed up like an evil clown, someone pretending to be an evil clown, or a real evil clown mixed in with all the other clowns out on Halloween?
ToomuchStuff
10-7-16, 10:10am
We had a local radio talk show host who had an experience yesterday. He saw a couple of kids, dressed up as what he called the ICP style (Insane Clown Posse), and they went up and back down that street. A neighbor on that street, started chasing after them until losing them. He made the comment about how 75% of that neighborhood had guns. In my life, I know when something gets a bad rap, there are always those (especially teens) who will purposely push back with a why. (and maybe in this case dress the part)
Something probably happened somewhere, and the slashdot effect happened (more publicity, bigger hype, self repeat). They also discussed what will happen as the remake of Stephen Kings, IT, is supposed to be out pretty soon.
Something probably happened somewhere, and the slashdot effect happened (more publicity, bigger hype, self repeat). They also discussed what will happen as the remake of Stephen Kings, IT, is supposed to be out pretty soon.
Perhaps the whole thin is an ingenious promotional campaign.
The local cops --and schools-- are pretty exasperated right now with all the creepy clown reports. I say "reports" because they're finding many of them are just rumors or false sightings. Seems part of the "hysteria" derives from just imagining they are out there.
Drgnfly423
10-7-16, 3:48pm
There was a pretty serious incident in a neighboring town to mine. Multiple people spotted this particular "clown" and reported it and before the police found him some late-teen/early twenties kids happened to see him in a park (alone at night). They taped themselves confronting him (in a joking manner) and the clown ran at them with a machete. I'm inclined to always think it's a hoax, but I have some anxiety surrounding random people committing violence from an incident in my past. So now I think I won't be taking my kids to the local park during the day since we are usually the only ones there.
Is there a certain type of person who seems to be doing this?
It is like the slender man thing - people think it is innocent fun until it isn't.
There is no way that traditional trick or treating is safe anymore IMO. The world has changed too much.
I guess the thing I don't understand is the idea that one needs the modifier "evil" when discussing clowns. I thought everyone knew that all clowns are evil and scary.
One of my grown kids still doesn't like clowns.
Of course, the original idea of clowns was from circuses, something that children waited a year to see and it was amusing.
Now, clowns are used as horror movie images.
Ever notice how scared most kids are of Santa Claus? For the same reason, he no longer looks normal because now the suits are more embellished and the beards are bigger. Not to mention, we teach kids about stranger danger and then want to plunk them down on a strange guy's lap who is wearing an odd red suit with white fur, strange boots and belt, and his entire face and head is covered with a hat, beard and bushy eyebrows. Then, we tell them not to cry.
As a human race, we do some strange things.
greenclaire
10-8-16, 12:04am
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/oct/07/creepy-clown-sightings-craze-speads-britain (contains images of scary clowns!)
It has spread over to us too. It seems to be driven by social media, hopefully it will go away soon when the next crazy trend occurs!
I read the book IT a long time ago, no interest in seeing the movie. However I was getting to know a 4 year old at our movie night, super chatty kid for 4, and noticed he had some potential issues. I talked to his teacher and apparently the family is fine with him seeing adult horror films and would be excited to have him dress as the clown from IT for Halloween. He will be starting my after-care program in November so I am a little nervous, about parents more than this little odd-kid
<<Reading Stephen King's book It was the biggest waste of time and I've never read another of his books since. I only finished it because I kept hoping it would get better. His older stuff was OK.>>
I posted this on 7/21/11 in a thread titled "Books to avoid". Leslieann and Spartana both had similar experiences with it.
Clowns are just creepy and scary and everyone knows it. Two guys in my NW corner of NJ dressed like this. Afterwards, others did the same and started scaring people. With so many gun-owning people here, I'm sure there will be a "shoot first, ask questions later" incident.
I was attacked by a Krampus in the elevator at a hotel in Seattle a couple of years ago, the fellow is lucky I didn't shoot him.
I was hypervigilent at a community event today as people were standing up in the middle leaving or causing a ruckus. Supposedly, this started with some clown-suited fools trying to lure children into a wooded area. Maybe, they were pediphiles offering candy to the kids. Golly, when I was a kid we could go anywhere on Halloween. What amazes me though is how many people let their kids run anywhere without supervision - why do people do that? Heck, teenagers and adults get lured away by rapists and murderers.
Gardenarian
10-11-16, 12:17am
What do you do when the evil clowns attack?
Go for the juggler!
:)
It - isn't that the one with Richard Thomas also known as John Boy on the Waltons?
If I remember correctly, that movie did not impress me at all.
I was attacked by a Krampus in the elevator at a hotel in Seattle a couple of years ago, the fellow is lucky I didn't shoot him.
Save your bullets for mimes. They're much more annoying.
IshbelRobertson
10-11-16, 5:07pm
The first UK 'clown' was taken to court and fined in Wales today.
Who ARE these eejits? The craze seems to be global.
Save your bullets for mimes. They're much more annoying.
Yup. I used my folding EMT shears on the Krampus, and was just about to fracture its skull with the carbide-tipped glass breaker on the tool when I realized it was a costume and not an actual demon. He's lucky I was coming right from the airport, and hadn't yet unpacked any more significant personal protective equipment from my luggage.
People really shouldn't jump into opening elevator doors, jump in screaming and yelling, and roughly grabbing elevator passengers...
I have known people with some sort of clown phobia. I think it is not unusual.
I heard a comedian say he saw one wearing a red tie and suit coat in the last presidential debate. They're everywhere.
I heard a comedian say he saw one wearing a red tie and suit coat in the last presidential debate. They're everywhere.
Yeah, what the heck is up with that huuuuuuge tie?
…….I don't know, it seems to me that our collective DNA is rotting.
JaneV2.0
10-12-16, 10:46am
…….I don't know, it seems to me that our collective DNA is rotting.
Always the optimist. :D
If it's any consolation, every generation has traditionally been seen as a harbinger of the end times, and we're still here and-arguably-thriving.
MCDonalds is keeping Ronald McDonald out of the limelight right now because of this.
A couple of years ago it was slender man that caused problems
Then there is the bloody mary poems that can cause problems too.
All of these things can cause mental health issues for certain individuals.
Nowadays, it is a way for pediphiles to get near kids.
ToomuchStuff
10-14-16, 1:15am
Clowns make me think of a serial killer, as well as a former customer who was a member of the Ararat Shrine circus. Before one show, he and another got into a fist fight, just outside the tent. They both continued to the show and did their jobs, in a disheveled bleeding sort of way, and were then kicked out of the Shrine.
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