'Clowning' around.

FionnK86

Read this article on the bus just now:

http://www.98fm.com/Halloween-Prank-Goes-Wrong-At-Blackrock-Secondary-School-

It seems this 'clown craze' is the latest fad in pranking, with clowns spotted in my own small rural Irish town terrorizing people. I've no fear of clowns, nor some gob****e in a costume from the €2 shop, but I can see where this could potentially scare the effin' s*"t out of people.

Have you experienced any of this stupid behaviour? :mad:

circadian

Going on to school property without permission dressed as clowns with fake chainsaws. What exactly did they expect?

Gatling

It was silly .

But this has been completely over blown

OU812

There's been a couple of "sightings" around here (North Dublin). Some kids are terrified - talk in the schoolyard etc. Our kids school made an announcement about it last week, telling the kids not to be talking about it, that there's nothing to worry about & sent a note home to inform parents. I know of a couple of dads that have verbalised their intent to make the area a clown free zone.

I'd say Fossetts & Duffys are ****ting themselves.

gramar

It's no laughing matter.

FionnK86

OU812 wrote: »

There's been a couple of "sightings" around here (North Dublin). Some kids are terrified - talk in the schoolyard etc. Our kids school made an announcement about it last week, telling the kids not to be talking about it, that there's nothing to worry about & sent a note home to inform parents. I know of a couple of dads that have verbalised their intent to make the area a clown free zone.

I'd say Fossetts & Duffys are ****ting themselves.

Similar here on the facebook 'crime alerts' page in my local area. However due to the sensationalist nature of these pages, its very easy to wind up a moderator and tell him clowns have been sighted everywhere! :rolleyes:

seamus

Anyone getting hot and bothered about this needs to cop on.

But the people getting a laugh out of this also need to have a bit of cop on. My wife teaches in a performing acts school, which is based in a primary school building, in the evenings and last week came into a classroom of 13 year old all screaming about there being a clown in a car outside waving at them. My wife told them to shut up and pulled the blinds to get on with the class.

It was only when she came home I told her there probably was someone out there. Problem is, pulling into a primary school when it's dark and waving at a bunch of children through the window while dressed as a clown...is probably not the brightest move in the world. Suspicious predatory behaviour aside, if a parent pulled up and caught you, you never know what they might do.

Giblet

Why does this stuff have to happen when I listen to IT on Audible. F*ck you, clowns!

Maximus Alexander

Clowns are no laughing matter.

osarusan

I'm just waiting for a clown to get shot and killed in the USA.

The bants will have reached epic levels then.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

I watched a video where one was on the street corner and frightened this man and he went ballistic. The clown is trying to say calm down thought it was funny didn't mean any harm, and the guy was saying, well, you think it's funny? Would you think it's funny if I pulled out a knife and scared you with it?
Then he knocked him out.

Well deserved. Little to be doing, going around scaring people like that.
Didn't a clown murder two kids recently in the UK too? No joke, I wouldn't find that a bit funny. Id be so angry.

FionnK86

osarusan wrote: »

I'm just waiting for a clown to get shot and killed in the USA.

The bants will have reached epic levels then.

US police won't shoot upstanding white clowns.

ahnowbrowncow

Theres a prank on YouTube were the clown had a chainsaw and trapped a poor fella in public toilets. He must have thought he was about to be cut into pieces, definitely crossed the line.

The_Valeyard

I really am surprised that in America one of these guys hasnt been shot yet.

Hande hoche!

FionnK86 wrote: »

US police won't shoot upstanding white clowns.

Yeah but all it takes is a good clown guy with a gun to shoot the bad clown.

seamus

The_Valeyard wrote: »

I really am surprised that in America one of these guys hasnt been shot yet.

The US cops seem to be giving them the benefit of the doubt for the moment that they're not carrying real machetes, but more than one US cop has been interviewed by local news and warned the guys dressing up that any member of the public who feels threatened may be legally justified if they shoot a clown, regardless of whether they're holding a real knife.

razorblunt

Someone is going to get the absolute shíte beat out of them when caught, for adults with the proper outfits and accessories it's a step too far.

There's a Cork radio station that's now showing photos of kids scaring kids while wearing the masks. They're just kids being kids FFS, everyone was running around with a Scream mask.

Rubberlegs

Giblet wrote: »

Why does this stuff have to happen when I listen to IT on Audible. F*ck you, clowns!

We all float down here!
Mwahahahahaaaaa!!

biko

FionnK86 wrote: »

Have you experienced any of this stupid behaviour? :mad:

Nope but people will get up to stuff they hear about, so thanks for spreading the word OP.

CPSW

Half of the videos on Facebook/Twitter are all set ups to get likes and go viral I reckon.

Also seen some idiot on the Malahide Road yesterday afternoon driving with a clown mask on. His partner in the passenger seat, his kid in the back seat.

Wonder how funny he would think it would be if he caused an accident due to wearing something that obscures his vision while driving, the moron!

SEPT 23 1989

Awww, come on bucko! Don't you want a... balloon?

Dyr

"This is like watching a clown running across a minefield"

thank you malcolm tucker

nullzero

seamus wrote: »

Anyone getting hot and bothered about this needs to cop on.

But the people getting a laugh out of this also need to have a bit of cop on. My wife teaches in a performing acts school, which is based in a primary school building, in the evenings and last week came into a classroom of 13 year old all screaming about there being a clown in a car outside waving at them. My wife told them to shut up and pulled the blinds to get on with the class.

It was only when she came home I told her there probably was someone out there. Problem is, pulling into a primary school when it's dark and waving at a bunch of children through the window while dressed as a clown...is probably not the brightest move in the world. Suspicious predatory behaviour aside, if a parent pulled up and caught you, you never know what they might do.

How very John Wayne Gacy of them.

andekwarhola

Would be kinda funny if some kerazee student type dressing up as a clown gets shot by some redneck in the states.

whoopsadoodles

razorblunt wrote: »

Someone is going to get the absolute shíte beat out of them when caught

Straight for the juggler.

shaunr68

CPSW wrote: »

Half of the videos on Facebook/Twitter are all set ups to get likes and go viral I reckon.

Also seen some idiot on the Malahide Road yesterday afternoon driving with a clown mask on. His partner in the passenger seat, his kid in the back seat.

Wonder how funny he would think it would be if he caused an accident due to wearing something that obscures his vision while driving, the moron!

I wouldn't worry about it too much. I imagine at the next set of traffic lights the doors and wheels fell off and twenty clowns emerged one by one from the car. Probably!

I read this in the indo today and it said in the blackrock school, "leaving cert students, 6th years" were deeply traumatised... ha ha ha, 17 yr olds running home to mammy and daddy terrified of the killer clowns!! parents ringing up too..ahhhh only in blackrock eh!

they'll be all having an americanesque candle lit vigil tonight now hugging each other!!! To quote the guy from ferris bueller... "I weep for the future"

pickarooney

LexieOnRale wrote: »

I watched a video where one was on the street corner and frightened this man and he went ballistic. The clown is trying to say calm down thought it was funny didn't mean any harm, and the guy was saying, well, you think it's funny? Would you think it's funny if I pulled out a knife and scared you with it?
Then he knocked him out.

Well deserved. Little to be doing, going around scaring people like that.
Didn't a clown murder two kids recently in the UK too? No joke, I wouldn't find that a bit funny. Id be so angry.

I'd be angry to if a clown murdered my kids.

bodhrandude

Maybe they are all influenced from this guy.

ScumLord

The_Valeyard wrote: »

I really am surprised that in America one of these guys hasnt been shot yet.

I've seen videos of clowns getting guns pulled on them. But this prank is years and years old in America. Ireland behind the times once again.

lertsnim

Anyone who does this is a bollocks and deserves a hammering.

seamus wrote: »

if a parent pulled up and caught you, you never know what they might do.

I believe the correct response is "it's a prank bro, it's a prank" as they get 10 shades of **** kicked out of them.

HS3

I'm terrible, I know it. If someone jumped out at me as a clown, I would pee myself and probably hit them a thump, or push them back into the bush they jumped out of. But if I saw it happen to someone else, I would absolutely burst a blood vessel laughing. I don't feel proud of myself, but I wouldn't have a very mature/fine tuned sense of humour.

I do think scaring kids and turning up at schools is completely wrong. And wouldn't find that funny at all. I was always afraid of something coming out of the shadows at me as a kid, I'd say most kids are. So I do have some comedy standards

jimgoose

Apparently the Plod have declared it a civil matter and said that they won't be investigating. Seems odd to me - I'd have thought frightening the living lard out of people at a school with what appear to be a pair of convincing chainsaws would be some sort of offence, particularly with all these nutters in the US attacking schools in recent years. The Independent has it here:

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/creepy-clowns-armed-with-chainsaws-enter-dublin-city-school-35116498.html

Ficheall

seamus wrote: »

The US cops seem to be giving them the benefit of the doubt for the moment that they're not carrying real machetes, but more than one US cop has been interviewed by local news and warned the guys dressing up that any member of the public who feels threatened may be legally justified if they shoot a clown, regardless of whether they're holding a real knife.

Does this work for the scary lasses in the local night club who also have silly shoes, colourful clothes and half a tin of paint on their faces?

marklazarcovic

have they been given their own toilets in the schools yet? there not real to me unless this happens.

jimgoose

jimgoose wrote: »

Apparently the Plod have declared it a civil matter and said that they won't be investigating. Seems odd to me - I'd have thought frightening the living lard out of people at a school with what appear to be a pair of convincing chainsaws would be some sort of offence, particularly with all these nutters in the US attacking schools in recent years. The Independent has it here:

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/creepy-clowns-armed-with-chainsaws-enter-dublin-city-school-35116498.html

not really, its not the same as robbing a posty with a set of replicas. they didn't damage, steel or attack anyone or anything so that shows you how feckin stupid it all is.. again though, black rock... little johnny just soiled his peddle pushers, wont someone think of the children.

montyrebel

maybe its just a lot of scared black people whitening up so they don't get shot by the police, in America at least

OU812

#clownlivesmatter is a thing...

https://twitter.com/hashtag/clownlivesmatter

They're planning a protest march as well on 15th October in Tucson. Although if they're eating those huge shoes, it'll take AGES. Don't know why they don't have a protest drive... those cars they have hold dozen of them.

Icelandicseige

I was at a car boot sale on Sunday and their was one guy there wearing clown suits ha.

V_Moth

Nothing beats a good Moral Panic.

fryup

some young lad arrested in wales over this fade

School staff were so concerned they issued a warning to parents via a messaging app.

Jones was arrested for breaching public order at St Cenydd Comprehensive School in Caerphilly, South Wales - and fined £90 for his menacing prank.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jobless-teen-first-person-fined-9023168

bnt

Report from the USA:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggS6LBhH7Fo

Bunny Colvin

LexieOnRale wrote: »

I watched a video where one was on the street corner and frightened this man and he went ballistic. The clown is trying to say calm down thought it was funny didn't mean any harm, and the guy was saying, well, you think it's funny? Would you think it's funny if I pulled out a knife and scared you with it?
Then he knocked him out.

Well deserved. Little to be doing, going around scaring people like that.
Didn't a clown murder two kids recently in the UK too? No joke, I wouldn't find that a bit funny. Id be so angry.

That video was more than likely staged. Saw it myself this evening!

The Wolverine

Wasn't one of these aressted in the US recently using a real butchers knife to follow and scare people? Now that's what's gonna have people on edge

Following someone with a real knife and cries of "it was just a prank bro" while getting clobbered

DEFTLEFTHAND

I read reports yesterday that a woman in the UK went into premature labour after encountering one of these bastards.

I saw there today also in the UK that a clown was badly beaten after creeping up on a man in a parking garage.

xabi

Bunny Colvin wrote: »

That video was more than likely staged. Saw it myself this evening!

Definitely staged, camera was miles away yet the sound was perfect

The_Valeyard

The Wolverine wrote: »

Wasn't one of these aressted in the US recently using a real butchers knife to follow and scare people? Now that's what's gonna have people on edge

Following someone with a real knife and cries of "it was just a prank bro" while getting clobbered

There will be a horror movie made on this. A prankster clown no one takes seriously who goes on a murderous rampage.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

Two clowns were beaten to death in Mexico last week.

http://www.posta.com.mx/edomex/matan-dos-payasos-que-asustaban-mujeres-y-ninos-en-ecatepec

EDIT: Apparently it's a hoax. The picture is real but it shows two clowns murdered in a robbery in Guatemala last year.

jamesbere

As with any of these crazes it will fizzle out after a while, but having said that some idiot will get the s**t kicked out of him for crossing the wrong person.

fryup

^^^^^^^^^^^^

or how about the genuine clowns going to a children's party

Herb Powell

fryup wrote: »

some young lad arrested in wales over this fade



http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jobless-teen-first-person-fined-9023168

Alright, this is fuccking stupid.

And I don't mean the people dressing up as clowns, I mean the absolute hysteria surrounding this. It's people dressing up and acting the tool, get the fucck over it and deal with a real problem.