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Creepy clowns (1 Viewer)

IvanKaramazov said:
The clown videos I'm now finding online are pretty awesome.  Nice examples of unsettling self-made 45-second horror films.

Nobody thinks any of these things are real, right?
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Of course they are fake.

Real clowns will never be a threat to mankind. Because they wear great big clown shoes and could never run after someone like in the videos.

 
GroveDiesel said:
Fake. Totally fake. Why in the world would someone think that they have to remain anonymous when telling that story? And he just happened to be a big tough martial artist who immediately punched the guy in the face and made blood come out the mask? Fake fake fake.
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Agreed.  I think the socks with flip flops for shtick's sake was a giveaway.

 
This has been happening this week in R.I.  And by this I mean a bunch of middle school kids talking themselves into believing machete wielding zombie clowns will be descending on them by Friday.  

  We drove my son's friend home yesterday after practice and it was all he could talk about.  Apparently he had to go to the guidance counselor during the day because he was having panic attacks over "the clowns"  I did my part on the drive home and mocked and berated him over his stupidity in believing it.  His twin sister also caught some of my wrath over similar nonsense statements.

   My big issue with these kids is how it goes from a clown trying to scare you to a clown trying to murder you.  Come on idiots. Get off my lawn!   My grandfather would have been proud.  

 
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PIK95 said:
This has been happening this week in R.I.  And by this I mean a bunch of middle school kids talking themselves into believing machete wielding zombie clowns will be descending on them by Friday.  

  We drove my son's friend home yesterday after practice and it was all he could talk about.  Apparently he had to go to the guidance counselor during the day because he was having panic attacks over "the clowns"  I did my part on the drive home and mocked and berated him over his stupidity in believing it.  His twin sister also caught some of my wrath over similar nonsense statements.

   My big issue with these kids is how it goes from a clown trying to scare you to a clown trying to murder you.  Come on idiots. Get off my lawn!   My grandfather would have been proud.  
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:lmao:

You're a good dad.

 
Everyone at soccer practice tonight got a robo call from the school district regarding "creepy clowns". This is getting old. 

 
http://mashable.com/2016/10/05/fear-of-clowns-real-imagined/#1VkBFPIaVmqq

It was approaching the end of March 1954, and residents of Bellingham, Washington, about 88 miles north of Seattle, were complaining about damaged car windshields. 

Newspapers in Seattle picked up the story, and soon reports of small craters in windshields rolled toward the city like a wave. 

By April 14 of that year, claims of widespread windshield damage were reported just 45 miles outside of Seattle, and then the mysterious vandalism hit the city itself. On April 15, Seattle police recorded thousands of complaints from residents who said their windshields were pock-marked. 
Theories ran wild. Perhaps debris was showering the area, fallout from a secret nuclear test somewhere offshore. Perhaps it was damage from outer space, caused by rays from the sun. Perhaps a cloud of fleas had bombed the region's cars with small but heavy eggs. Alarmed, the mayor called the president for help. 

The next day, journalists suggested the reason no one had caught a culprit or seen this rain of nuclear debris was because these things had only existed in the minds of people who expected to see them. Perhaps residents were just now noticing dents in their windshields that some errant rock had put there months before. 

The day after that, no one in Seattle called police about a windshield.

We got that anecdote from social psychologist David Myers, though you can read about it in many corners of the internet. When asked about the ongoing spread of strange clown sightings across the United States, he said he knew nothing of this phenomena in particular, but he does know about human suggestibility, which is seeing what we're expected to see. 
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Timmay said:
This calls for a Samuel L Jackson movie, Clowns on a Plane. 
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Kiss the Clowns

Jurassic Clowns

Clown Fiction

The Long Clown Goodnight

Star Wars: Episode 1: The Clown Menace

Star Wares: The Clown Wars

Coach Clown

Clowns Unchained

The Legend of Clowns

 
These cannibal clowns are sitting around a fire eating a fellow clown when one says, "Does this taste funny?".

 
I blame this issue on women and lack of honesty. Girls say they want a guy who is funny and spontaneous, but tap on their window at night dressed as a clown...

 
shuke said:
This stuff fascinates me.  I read a lot of Jan Harold Brunvand's books on urban legends back in the 90's.  Once the internet came along and everyone had Snopes a click away, I didn't expect to see something like this current clown thing get this big.  
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Brunvand's books are awesome. 

I remember people trying to pass on urban legends and then me saying "you know, I just read a really great book that discussed that exact story.  It's actually pretty much a myth or legend..."

"ARE YOU CALLING MY SISTER'S NEIGHBOR'S FRIEND'S HAIRDRESSER'S COUSIN'S BABYSITTER A LIAR!?!"

 
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Just got a letter from the school superintendent.   We're on the map.

"Dear Parents,

I am writing to inform you about an incident reported a short time ago.  A student reported observing three individuals in what may have been clown costumes, congregating around a car, on Main Street between ____ and ____.  The costumes may be similar to those worn by other individuals in 'creepy clown' incidents.

According to the report, the individuals and the car around which they were gathered soon disappeared from the area.  We have no further information at this time.

While there is no immediate danger, ... [blah blah review safety rules with your kids.]"

Love when people freak out over things like this.  A weird prank three blocks from the local high school?  Yeah, probably death clowns...

 
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