#ClownLivesMatter !
Not especially. A big gripe of mine is that in the US, neither police nor the people who call them ever seem to have any interest in what the laws actually are. I think that’s a paradoxical outlook for those who are the loudest in promoting a culture of “law and order”. It’s also a huge “elephant in the room” which hardly anybody - including those critical of police - even consider.
Phenomena like this “creepy clown” business I think illustrate the problem quite lucidly.
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Perhaps the hysteria and the resulting crack-down is just natures way of keeping things in balance?
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Meanwhile, on a lighter note…clowns.
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See @OtherMichael, terrifying! We gots to make bank on this, yo!
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I like clowns; my favorite puzzle as a kid was a predominately-purple collection of clowns.
But, yeah: a clown just sitting there, smoking a cigarette, glaring at you. Not… menacingly. But not friendly.
He stamps the butt out in an overflowing pile. Reaches, without looking, for another in an endless voluminous pocket.
Lights it with a lucifer match lit off the end of one thick, yellow thumbnail.
Waves out the match, flicks it at the audience.
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If Creepy Clowns are outlawed, only outlaws will have Creepy Clowns?
Obligatory:
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He did survive getting run over by a minivan. About a year later the driver died of an overdose, on King’s 53rd birthday.
Make of that what you will.
Oh myyyyy…
They still didn’t arrest the headclown yet…
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Multiple mentions but no videos? Here’s a couple of naturals:
Clowns dancing with riot squad
"I came here to clown, I came here to clown, let’s get lunatic and jump around"
Wait… is this becoming the new satanic panic? @popobawa4u, what do you think?
That’s a good guess, actually.
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The clowns have already won.
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In some ways, I think so. It has the advantage (and difference) of being vaguely based on real events somewhere, too. (The real events being that people are dressing up like clowns, not that they’re necessarily doing the scary things attributed to them, nor present in all the places they’re supposed to be. That puts it ahead of the Satanic Panic, and like that event, people are getting hurt, killed and arrested just over the fear of clowns doing imaginary things.)
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