# 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
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2016, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/41 "2016-09-01T12:02:53Z")
> [@davidm](#):
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> I find the reports of guns being fired at noises in the woods scarier than any supposed clowns.
It’s okay – if they kill a clown, you won’t have to see any footage of it – Jerry Lewis will make sure it’s suppressed.
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### Author:  [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2016, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/42 "2016-09-01T12:17:03Z")
_Ringmaster shouts let the show begin
Send in the clowns, then let them do you in
See a rubber nose on a painted face
Bringing genocide to the human race_
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### Author:  [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2016, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/43 "2016-09-01T12:29:20Z")
Isn’t there some new scary clown movie coming out? Could all this be a publicity stunt?
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### Author:  [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2016, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/44 "2016-09-01T14:28:36Z")
Maybe they are (gasp) illegal immigrant clowns. There’s your scary movie: _The Bozos from Brazil_.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2016, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/45 "2016-09-01T14:47:32Z")
> [@Biotop](#):
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> Maybe they are (gasp) illegal immigrant clowns. There’s your scary movie: _The Bozos from Brazil_.
I dunno. Who has hair like that? :dubious:
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### Author:  [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2016, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/46 "2016-09-01T14:48:51Z")
> [@TruCelt](#):
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> Isn’t there some new scary clown movie coming out? Could all this be a publicity stunt?
Are they remaking the [best evil clown movie evah](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_Klowns_from_Outer_Space)?
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2016, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/47 "2016-09-01T15:31:38Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#):
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> Are they remaking the [best evil clown movie evah](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_Klowns_from_Outer_Space)?
Is a remake or a sequel?
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### Author:  [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2016, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/48 "2016-09-01T15:35:11Z")
> [@Biotop](#):
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> And should not get shot at.
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> A mime is a terrible thing to waste.
That’s a ‘Bozo No-No’…?
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2016, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/49 "2016-09-01T17:12:04Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#):
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> Are they remaking the [best evil clown movie evah](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_Klowns_from_Outer_Space)?
See post 24. 🙂
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### Author:  [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2016, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/50 "2016-09-01T17:28:41Z")
> [@Leaper](#):
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> Why do you think his name is Pennywise?
cuz Poundfoolish is a silly name for a clown.
> [@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…
Do non-terrible mimes exist?
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### Author:  [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2016, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/51 "2016-09-01T17:52:23Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#):
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> See post 24. 🙂
Aw man!
:smack:
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### Author:  [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2016, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/52 "2016-09-01T18:03:27Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#):
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> Aw man!
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> :smack:
There’s pie on your face!
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2016, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/53 "2016-09-01T18:36:20Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#):
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> Do non-terrible mimes exist?
[Not anymore.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Marceau) ☹
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### Author:  [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2016, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/54 "2016-09-01T18:52:44Z")
> [@Leo\_Krupe](#):
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> A clown ate my dingo.
A cløwn once bit my sister…
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### Author:  [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2016, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/55 "2016-09-01T19:55:04Z")
The killer clowns are [metastasizing](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/another-creepy-clown-incident-reported-ohio-n641491).
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### Author:  [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2016, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/56 "2016-09-01T21:06:13Z")
In a completely unrelated development, did you hear that Orson Welles was recently reanimated and has been reading from King’s _It_ on his radio show?
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### Author:  [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2016, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/57 "2016-09-02T01:37:53Z")
For those who didn’t see this when I first posted it. These are very likely pranks (stupid dangerous pranks).
> [@davidm](#):
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> 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.
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> 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.
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2016, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/58 "2016-09-02T01:49:24Z")
> [@cochrane](#):
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> I hear four kids in a van with a large dog are on the case. They’ll get to the bottom of it soon.
Are they _meddling_ kids?
They have to know how to meddle, or it doesn’t work.
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2016, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/59 "2016-09-02T03:22:45Z")
People on the SDMB are always clowning around.
😃
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### Author:  [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2016, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clowns-in-woods-try-to-lure-children-with-money-residents-say/764567/60 "2016-09-02T04:45:03Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#):
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> Are they _meddling_ kids?
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> They have to know how to meddle, or it doesn’t work.
Watch the pretty coin of gold
And you will do as you are told
You have no fear of what you see
So walk into the woods with me…
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