Clowns have always been damn creepy. Not sure why… perhaps it begins with the enforced cheerfulness, and proceeds outwards from there. But recently clowns have become the latest “moral panic,” soon to rival the “Satanic panic” of the 1980’s. Sightings of creepy clowns – both real and hoaxed – have popped up all over. And the press these “creepy sightings” have received have made copycats inevitable. It’s happening in Utah:
Utah teens find clown pranks come with serious consequences
Where a couple of 14 year old dumbasses showed up to a football game wearing clown masks… and promptly got a beatdown from the other kids who weren’t playin’ dat. An unrelated 14-year-old created an Instagram account, using a creepy clown to issue death threats. And:
Clown hysteria in Utah turns criminal with attacks, vandalism
In which a school was tagged with clown-based vandalism, leading to a few dozen students deciding they were too freaked out to stay in school.
Some of the early “creepy clown” pranks seem to have been effectively planned and carried out efforts to create “urban legend” levels of rumor and chatter. But now lazy schmucks are using clown masks to try to scare random folks… with variable results:
Report: Maine woman pulls out her gun on threatening clown
Where a schmoe in the rear seat of a SUV pulled up in front of a house and tried to spook the woman sitting on her porch.
She said she laughed at first saying “I’m not afraid of clowns,” until the clown made a gun shape with his fingers and said “bang.”
“I picked up my 9 mm — I didn’t point it at him directly,” the woman told the Sun Journal, “and said, ‘Back at ya, clown.’”
Hokey makeup and latex masks are no match for a good nine millimeter at your side, clown.