This is weird. It’s probably some kind of mass hysteria, but it may lead to some innocent person or persons being shot.
At least one adult reported seeing a clown. She said that a large clown with a blinking nose waved at her when she was walking home at 2:30 in the morning.
I find the reports of guns being fired at noises in the woods scarier than any supposed clowns.
They all float down here.
My guess is that this is probably dumb-ass teenagers screwing with people.
Plus, kids are dumb. When I was a kid, there was a drainage ditch near our elementary school, with an old (1940s-1950s era) trestle bridge that a local farmer had used for livestock prior to the development of that area. It was made of creosote-treated timber, so it was black, and it was old, so it was kind of warped and scary looking. And I think someone had set part of it afire at some point in the past.
We children were **CONVINCED ** that “devil-worshippers” had ceremonies near the bridge at midnight. Never mind that the bridge itself was like 100 yards from the school, and probably 300 yards from a suburban neighborhood. If anything happened, it was probably dumb-ass teenagers smoking weed by there, and screwing around and maybe setting stuff on fire for kicks.
But all it would have taken would have been a comment to someone’s parents about the devil-worshippers in the early 1980s, and it would have been a Big Deal with equal breathless panic on the news.
Now I’m thinking that people may really be seeing what they’re reporting. This seems to be a thing. There are a bunch of Youtube videos of killer clown pranks.
I can't help but laugh at some of them, but it's totally wrong and stupid. People could easily get hurt or killed; either the "victims" while running away or the perpetrators when someone decides to defend themselves.A clown could get shot in some places.
Shoot 'em in the funny bone. It’s their Achilles’s heel.
Killing a clown outside of clown season can result in a $500 fine and up to 30 days in the county jail.
That’s why they wear those big shoes!
Well, there was this guy.
And they’ve beenspotted in Indiana.
And in the wilds of Brooklyn.
Even once in Vancouver.
As a matter of fact, I’m starting to think that the best place to look for a clown is behind a tree.
Just hope it’s not this guy.
This looks like a job for the Insane Clown Posse!!! Round them up!
Fuck, I’d take Pennywise over those losers anyday.
Police were looking for several clowns supposedly spotted in the area yesterday, but the only vehicle they saw nearby was a extra-small compact speeding away, and all those clowns couldn’t have been in that one car.
There are no innocent clowns.
-Dashiell Hammett
Sure but apparently some of the residents, spooked by the clown stories, were shooting blindly into the woods, in the dark, at sounds they heard. So they could hit someone other than a clown.
This was at 2:30am? Where was she coming from?
I have no idea. The article doesn’t say.
The obvious answer is that she was walking home after last call at the local bar. So the question is how sober was she.
