# Clowns in woods try to lure children with money, residents say
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [August 31, 2016, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567 "2016-08-31T14:27:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2016, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/21 "2016-08-31T19:54:49Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#):
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> This was at 2:30am? Where was she coming from?
More importantly, what color was the blinking nose?
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### Author:  [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2016, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/22 "2016-08-31T19:59:18Z")
> [@davidm](#):
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> 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.
Pfft. That was just Rudolph out on a training run.
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### Author:  [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2016, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/23 "2016-08-31T19:59:57Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#):
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> This was at 2:30am? Where was she coming from?
The clown store of course.
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2016, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/24 "2016-08-31T20:00:31Z")
Anyone seen [The Chiodo Brothers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_Klowns_from_Outer_Space) recently?
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### Author:  [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2016, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/25 "2016-08-31T20:24:33Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> [Photographic evidence!](http://www.cryptomundo.com/wp-content/BigfootRonaldsm.jpg)
I’ve been seeing that scary clown for decades. I tried to keep my son from it all of his young life, once he turned 40 he finally understood and never see’s the clown at all now.
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### Author:  [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2016, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/26 "2016-08-31T20:26:25Z")
> [@davidm](#):
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> 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.
It’s ok. Those guns just made a popping sound and a little white banner with the word “BANG!” sprung out.
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### Author:  [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/27 "2016-08-31T20:37:20Z")
> [@davidm](#):
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> 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.
If something’s in the woods making noises in the dark, it’s probably worse than clowns.
It could be terrible mimes…
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2016, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/28 "2016-08-31T20:46:11Z")
> [@MrDibble](#):
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> If something’s in the woods making noises in the dark, it’s probably worse than clowns.
> It could be terrible mimes…
Mimes wouldn’t be making noise.
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### Author:  [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2016, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/29 "2016-08-31T20:48:21Z")
> [@running\_coach](#):
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> Mimes wouldn’t be making noise.
Unless they were terrible.
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### Author:  [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2016, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/30 "2016-08-31T20:59:18Z")
> [@MrDibble](#):
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> There are no innocent clowns.
A clown killed my father.
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### Author:  [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2016, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/31 "2016-08-31T21:01:53Z")
I won’t believe the kids until they thrust their fists against the gowns and still insist they see the clowns.
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### Author:  [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2016, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/32 "2016-08-31T21:14:02Z")
> [@running\_coach](#):
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> Mimes wouldn’t be making noise.
And should not get shot at.
A mime is a terrible thing to waste.
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### Author:  [@Leo\_Krupe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Krupe)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2016, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/33 "2016-08-31T21:27:07Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#):
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> A clown killed my father.
A clown ate my dingo.
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### Author:  [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2016, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/34 "2016-08-31T22:30:54Z")
They need to find Cathy. She’s the ringleader.
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### Author:  [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2016, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/35 "2016-08-31T22:41:15Z")
I’m funny how, I mean funny like I’m a clown, I amuse you?
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### Author:  [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2016, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/36 "2016-08-31T22:44:02Z")
The remake of _It_ isn’t coming to theaters for more than a year. If it’s an attempt at viral marketing it’s a poor one.
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### Author:  [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2016, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/37 "2016-09-01T04:38:36Z")
Clowns got cash?
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### Author:  [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2016, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/38 "2016-09-01T05:41:55Z")
> [@Wolf333](#):
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> Unless they were terrible.
I’m glad someone got it 🙂
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### Author:  [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2016, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/39 "2016-09-01T09:08:30Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#):
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> They all float down here.
Why do you think his name is Pennywise?
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2016, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/40 "2016-09-01T11:52:38Z")
I hear four kids in a van with a large dog are on the case. They’ll get to the bottom of it soon.
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