Frazzled wrote:

 Spinner wrote:

 oldravenman3025 wrote:
There may be no ill will on the part of the clowns

Impossible.

Clown apologist.

We need a clown wall to better implement a new clown immigration policy. Until such time as immigrant clowns have been extensively vetted - I like to all it "extreme vetting" - new immigrant clowns will no longer be permitted entry into the US.

 jmurph wrote:
It makes me a little sad to see that the evil clown trope has become the norm when the US clown had largely been about entertaining children. Oh well, the comedic buffoon lives on.

 Frazzled wrote:
Creepy Clowns beware: NC will bring you down on site!
http://heatst.com/life/clown-costume-wearers-will-be-arrested-charged-on-the-spot-warns-north-carolina-police/

Local police warned residents “although it is lawful to dress as a clown, given the heightened tensions about these entertainers, officials are discouraging ‘copycat’ behaviour by individuals who may find it humorous to mimic suspicious behaviour.”

 PrayingSeraph wrote:
I honestly feel really bad for the good people who spent their time and effort to be cheerful clowns to make children smile, only to be later seen as scary villains.

 Easy E wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:
Creepy Clowns beware: NC will bring you down on site!
http://heatst.com/life/clown-costume-wearers-will-be-arrested-charged-on-the-spot-warns-north-carolina-police/

As you can see Ketara. In the US, the Police can do whatever the feth they want.

Local police warned residents “although it is lawful to dress as a clown, given the heightened tensions about these entertainers, officials are discouraging ‘copycat’ behaviour by individuals who may find it humorous to mimic suspicious behaviour.”

“It’s illegal. It’s dangerous. It’s inappropriate, and it’s creating community concern so it needs to stop,” Greenville Police Chief Ken Miller said at a news conference on September 1.

“This is something that we’re taking very seriously, especially because of the allegations of people dressed in clown outfits trying to lure children into the woods.”

It’s been several weeks since stories first started surfacing of creepy clown sightings with some witnesses saying they were trying to lure children into the woods. But so far, police have found no evidence that any of the reports were real. And on Friday, police in Winston-Salem, North Carolina made it clear they’re not going to take false reports of clown sightings sitting down. Police arrested 24-year-old David Armstrong after he admitted that the creepy tale of an ominous clown tapping on his window in the early hours of the morning had been entirely made up. Armstrong’s court date is Monday.

Armstrong’s arrest came shortly after Winston-Salem police said a separate report of a clown trying to lure kids into the woods was also false. They examined surveillance footage and didn’t find any evidence of someone dressed as a clown trying to get kids to go into the woods. There are still other reported sightings being investigated but no evidence has been found so far.

The creepy-clown sightings began in late August in Greenville, South Carolina and then spread to Winston-Salem and Greensboro, North Carolina. “We’re still investigating to see what the actual purpose is, whether it’s for ill intent or if it’s a prank,” a Greenville police spokesman said, adding the sightings are still classified as suspicious activity.

The alleged sightings have led to national and international news coverage and even horror master Stephen King weighed in on the whole thing, saying tales of supernatural beings who lurk in the shadow are a recurring thing. “I suspect it’s a kind of low-level hysteria, like Slender Man, or the so-called Bunny Man, who purportedly lurked in Fairfax County, Virginia, wearing a white hood with long ears and attacking people with a hatchet or an axe,” King told the Bangor Daily News. “The clown furor will pass, as these things do, but it will come back, because under the right circumstances, clowns really can be terrifying.” Even as he dismissed the sightings, King recognized he wouldn’t want to run into a clown in the wrong circumstances: “If I saw a clown lurking under a lonely bridge (or peering up at me from a sewer grate, with or without balloons), I’d be scared, too.”

Considering none of the clowns allegedly terrifying communities have been located, psychologists had been saying since the beginning that it was likely all a case of low-level public hysteria as fears begin to spread. “Sometimes this can create a ‘mass hysteria’ as perceived problems, such as presumed rashes, spread throughout a population,” a psychology professor told the New York Times recently.