Killer Clown Craze !!

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What is it with the idiots dressing up as nasty clowns and scaring people, wielding realistic looking weapons.
Seems even daylight family walks in parks aren't above these pranksters and kids are being scared witless by
these idiots jumping out at them. :banghead:
Someone is going to get seriously injured before long when people start to retaliate
 
Before you judge a clown, walk a metre in his shoes, trip over, snap your braces so your pants fall down and pull a bucket onto your head. :)
 
One of the girls at work was on about this at lunch...

Can't understand why ?
Can't understand how they'd think it was funny or entertaining at all...
 
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What baffles me is people's propensity to be scared by it.

Genuine Coulrophobia, fair enough, but the rest s just nonsense IMO.
 
viv1969 said:
What baffles me is people's propensity to be scared by it.

Genuine Coulrophobia, fair enough, but the rest s just nonsense IMO.
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Really ?
So it's nonsense to be scared by someone jumping out on you brandishing a weapon that you don't know is fake ?
Dressed as a clown or not l personally would find that scary.
 
Gremlin said:
Really ?
So it's nonsense to be scared by someone jumping out on you brandishing a weapon that you don't know is fake ?
Dressed as a clown or not l personally would find that scary.
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Oh, FFS.
Would I occasionally be jumpy being taken by surprise? Of course.
Does it matter that it's a t*** in a clown mask? No.
The weapon is immaterial.
Getting a grip isn't.
 
Remember, if you're ever attacked by a group of killer clowns go for the juggler..
 
viv1969 said:
Oh, FFS.
Would I occasionally be jumpy being taken by surprise? Of course.
Does it matter that it's a t*** in a clown mask? No.
The weapon is immaterial.
Getting a grip isn't.
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Not everyone has nerves of steel like you. Lone women at night and children have been chased and/or verbally abused in some cases.

One guy in Bournemouth was attacked and dragged along the ground. One teenager dressed as a clown in Southampton hit by a car.

It's out of hand and all because people are hiding behind a clown mask, someone is going to get seriously injured. Or worse.
 
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viv1969 said:
Oh, FFS.
Would I occasionally be jumpy being taken by surprise? Of course.
Does it matter that it's a t*** in a clown mask? No.
The weapon is immaterial.
Getting a grip isn't.
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Excuse me for finding it scary, l often walk alone in the dark, in winter, l'll try and remember not
to worry if l'm walking along and someone jumps out from some where brandishing a weapon,
they are only doing it for fun if you say so.
Yes the mask is immaterial but as has been said people will fight back and fun or not someone will get hurt.
and trying telling a kid that the guy in a mask was only messing about, one young lad round here won't sleep
alone following it happening on a family walk
 
Gremlin said:
Excuse me for finding it scary, l often walk alone in the dark, in winter, l'll try and remember not
to worry if l'm walking along and someone jumps out from some where brandishing a weapon,
they are only doing it for fun if you say so.
Yes the mask is immaterial but as has been said people will fight back and fun or not someone will get hurt.
and trying telling a kid that the guy in a mask was only messing about, one young lad round here won't sleep
alone following it happening on a family walk
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So, before the whole clown thing, what were you afraid of?
 
viv1969 said:
So, before the whole clown thing, what were you afraid of?
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Not a lot and I still don't let things that might happen prevent me from doing things, but l have had 2 attempted attacks whilst out walking my dogs,
on both occasions the dogs protected me.
But are you seriously saying that if you were on your own and someone jumped out from bushes brandishing a knife or some other weapon
you wouldn't react in any way? Would you really think if they were wearing a mask it was a joke ?
Unless it has happened you really can't say what you would do
 
Gremlin said:
Not a lot and I still don't let things that might happen prevent me from doing things, but l have had 2 attempted attacks whilst out walking my dogs,
on both occasions the dogs protected me.
But are you seriously saying that if you were on your own and someone jumped out from bushes brandishing a knife or some other weapon
you wouldn't react in any way? Would you really think if they were wearing a mask it was a joke ?
Unless it has happened you really can't say what you would do
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No I can't.
But nor would I start bleating about a new, trendy, craze.
 
simon ess said:
No, you're just bleating about people's reaction to said craze.
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Absolutely.
Those bleating about it, scare me more than than those in the masks.
 
viv1969 said:
No I can't.
But nor would I start bleating about a new, trendy, craze.
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You could just ignore the thread and let others discuss it if it really annoys/scares you
 
Gremlin said:
You could just ignore the thread and let others discuss it if it really annoys/scares you
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What makes you think that? :lol:
Why should I ignore a thread simply because I find the rationale daft?
 
viv1969 said:
Absolutely.
Those bleating about it, scare me more than than those in the masks.
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I started the thread so that must be me scaring you.
 
Blank_Canvas said:
If it wasn't for the proliferation of media coverage and people jumping up to the faux hysteria then this 'copy cat' tomfoolery wouldn't be an issue.
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I'm not so sure that that is true these days. It's a craze that teenagers seem to be joining in with so I'd imagine that it's being spread by social media considerably more than by conventional media coverage. Although I agree that adults being nervous about it is more likely to be due to the media coverage.
 
All these killer clowns terrorising people, we need Batman! Where are you Bruce!?
 
There is a video on the DM site of a clown trying to scare a couple of blokes in a multi-storey car park. He got punched and head butted for his troubles, also another lad got fined for scaring kids.
 
viv1969 said:
What baffles me is people's propensity to be scared by it.

Genuine Coulrophobia, fair enough, but the rest s just nonsense IMO.
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If people in "plain clothes" randomly started to prank/intimidate people it's bad enough, it's not funny or acceptable.

Then add an element of anonymity, a fake weapon and having to decide if it's just a spunktrumpted "having a laugh" or someone really out to harm you and then the fact that even if someone doesn't have coulrophobia, they may just be wary/uneasy at the sight of someone dressed as a clown then I think there's every right for people to be scared.

My wife doesn't like clowns, they creep her out if she saw one of these said spunktrumpets on the street it would freak her out and in turn freak out my 2 year old daughter........ nothing funny about that at all IMO.
 
Russ77 said:
My wife doesn't like clowns, they creep her out if she saw one of these said spunktrumpets on the street it would freak her out and in turn freak out my 2 year old daughter........ nothing funny about that at all IMO.
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But it seems that as long as they are having fun other people's feelings don't matter.

I do know that if it happened to me I would retaliate, which of course could land me in serious trouble.
As mentioned above I have been in similar situations, yes I did have a large walking pole and would have happily used it,
but the appearance of 2 large, angry dogs was enough to make the guys on both occasions beat a hasty retreat, one losing his lower
clothing in the effort. Luckily the dogs were well trained and I could call them off.
The Police told me I should have let the dogs attack, so they could get DNA but the problem is, if an arrest was made, a good solicitor could have turned it
round and put the dogs' lives at risk, and of course the same could happen to people defending themselves from these idiots.
 
TopBanana said:
I'd imagine that it's being spread by social media considerably more than by conventional media coverage.
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Media (all encompassing) definition: The main means of mass communication (broadcasting, publishing, and the Internet) regarded collectively.
 
Think I might have to get a clowns head and walk round with it held by the hair and ideally it dripping a blood like liquid ;)
 
s*** the bed... It's Halloween soon. Half of Britains children and youths will be behind bars for donning scary suits.

Seriously tho, I don't get it. Any of it. The idiots clowning around or the hysteria.

I've just watched a news report with footage of a clown intimidating a woman who was sat in her car hysterically screaming. It was all a bit pathetic with the media doing all they could to sensationalise it.

You're in a car love, lock the doors and drive on.
 
Am I the only one who would have no time to do something like this?

I struggle to find enough time to wash the car each week, let alone don a clown outfit to go out scaring people.
 
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I don't get scared by Halloween type things BUT i developed a stutter (which took over a year to clear) when i was 3 after some a******e jumped out at Halloween and cut a dolls head off right in front of me when i was walking with my mum. These things obviously affect kids and here lies the problem. If that happened to my son that idiot would be sorry. As soon as i got him settled i would hunt that b*****d down and beat the s*** out of him.
 
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