Look, this just isn’t smart, OK?
Reports of menacing clowns roaming Bakersfield continued over the weekend, the latest involving reports of one of them wielding a gun before disappearing into the night, police said.
Authorities responded to a call about 8 p.m. Saturday of a person wearing a clown suit and holding a gun near Valhalla Drive and Belle Terrace, the Bakersfield Californian reported.
When officers arrived, there was no clown in sight, but the call was only the latest in an apparent days-long campaign of creep being carried out across the city where police have received reports of clowns standing in public holding weapons, including machetes and baseball bats.
It’s the sort of thing that ends with somebody freaking out and running over a guy in a clown suit. And while you may think that this would be karmic payback for trying to terrify people – well, the person who drives over the practical joker is going to end up being traumatized from killing somebody for the rest of his or her life. So don’t do this.
Via Drudge.
Moe Lane
PS: Do not wave weapons around. It is neither civilized nor adult behavior.
I don’t know, Moe. Could you perhaps be dismissing a possibility out of hand?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8aurFKK-RE
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Okay, okay, maybe it’s NOT funny under the circumstances. But still, that’s where my mind went. Can’t help it at this point, so I might as well own it.
Or it could be a rogue CIA assassin squad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTuPiHwUFGo
Real Men (1987) – clown attack
Juggalos?
Juggalos are smarter than this.
Oh, look, the LA Times was able to work gun control into the story! I’m sure that, by the time it’s over, there will be reports that one of the clowns was associated with the Tea Party.
I think you’re jumping to unwarranted conclusions.
Clowns have long carried around preposterously oversized guns that “fire” a flag saying “Bang”.
Preposterously oversized cutting implements are also a staple (scissors being a big favorite).
Oversized fake arrows through the head and the like are also part of the whole clown shtick.
Over-the-top madcap comic violence is a central part of being a clown. From pratfalls, to slapstick, it always has been.
Add to this hoplophobes that get the vapors at the thought of violence, and react to a conspicuously fake oversized weapon as even more threatening than a schoolkid drawing a picture containing a gun.
And you get this panic.
Without anything untoward actually going on at all.
So this would totally be appropriate behavior?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xSNiPx791A
Unless the person running over said clown has already killed a clown before at which point he probably won’t be traumatized too much.
“Of course I was in fear of imminent severe bodily harm or death! A clown was waving a machete at me!”
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Isn’t a jury in the world that would convict.