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AIBU?

Clowns - to wish the media would stop reporting them

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MsJamieFraser · 07/10/2016 20:22

If anyone hasn't heard, the new popular thing to do, is dress up as a clown with a weapon and go about terrifying people by intimidation and brandishing a weapon.

AIBU to think the media should stop reporting on this and these idiots will just go onto the next trend.

Currently my quiet home town is full of police and sirens blaring as a few idiots are out terrorising the public.

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Coconutty · 07/10/2016 21:19

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JenLindleyShitMom · 07/10/2016 21:19

are idiots allover the country just copying a craze?

Yes.

RJnomore1 · 07/10/2016 21:20

I'm west of Scotland too, my 12 yo dd is terrified, sightings at two schools in our town but not hers, but she's terrified of clowns as it is. Ffs.

BlackSwan · 07/10/2016 21:27

Clowns are weird. I had a driving instructor turn up in a clown costume once. Also alcohol on his breath. Freak.

couldntlovethebearmore · 07/10/2016 21:31

I thought this was going to be a thread about UKIP

user1467798821 · 07/10/2016 21:34

I would freak out! I have a phobia of clowns, and if one jumped out on me, I would not be responsible for my actions!

SerialBodenReturner · 07/10/2016 21:34

Yes, lots of clown activity in Essex too. It's definitively a self-perpetuating thing.

Thing is, anyone who dresses up in a way they can't be easily identified, and deliberately scares people, IS scary.

But what a waste of police resources and everyone's energy.

ShelaghTurner · 07/10/2016 21:36

I'd be scared as fuck if I saw a clown at the best of times. Regardless of the knives etc I wish to god everyone would stop reporting on it so I didn't see the scary bastards every time I go on the internet.

Tunafishandlions · 07/10/2016 21:38

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IrisBlue15 · 07/10/2016 21:38

Is nobody else totally tickled by the little boy bringing in his nerf gun to protect himself? It's adorable!
Totally missing the point

unimagmative13 · 07/10/2016 21:40

3 schools in the same town

Are you sure they were knife wielding or did they just get arrested for dressing up as clowns?

stuckinny · 07/10/2016 21:40

Good grief! I thought the madness was just in the US.

IsItOnTheTrolley · 07/10/2016 21:43

Talk of it here in rural Dorset from DDs and a friend.

DixieNormas · 07/10/2016 21:43

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Lorelei76 · 07/10/2016 21:43

un "Are you sure they were knife wielding or did they just get arrested for dressing up as clowns?"

I'm not a lawyer but I'm pretty confident that you can't get arrested for that.

Reckon it's all building up to something on Halloween.

DixieNormas · 07/10/2016 21:45

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unimagmative13 · 07/10/2016 21:46

No they did.

They can be charged under Section 5 of the Public Order Act, 1984

toastymarshmallow · 07/10/2016 21:49

There was a video on BBC News FB page that had clips of clowns chasing cars, I think they were all in America but it was creepy. I would honestly shit myself if a clown was chasing me. They had weapons.

Reetpetite17 · 07/10/2016 21:50

If they go anywhere near my DS's school... How pathetic targeting little kids!

DustyCropHopper · 07/10/2016 21:51

It has been going on in our town all bloody week! And social media has been the biggest cause of the problem. Hyped up, over exaggerated rubbish being put on local sites leaving kids petrified and people panicking about knife/bat wielding clowns when there has actually not been any official reported siting of clowns with such things, just a van or maybe more with a clown sitting in it waving and an incident where a clown asked a young teen to go to a birthday party (not very appropriate but possibly an ill thought out 'joke') which resulted in a secondary school going into lock down for the day.

Tarla · 07/10/2016 21:54

There's allegedly been one sighted in our village tonight (north east England). The local gossips are in overdrive. I've got to be at the bus stop on my own, next to a load of bushes, at 7am tomorrow

I think the press and social media are adding to the hysteria by making people afraid. It's a shitty 'prank' and only a matter of time until someone gets seriously hurt but the reporting on it seems to be encouraging more idiots. Sooner or later one of those idiots is going to actually be a very dangerous person who will take it too far. At the minute it's escalating and escalating, if they withdrew the attention tin it's getting then it'll withdraw a lot of the appeal.

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dingit · 07/10/2016 21:56

I've told my two teens that they are under no circumstances going out trick and treating. It's just not worth the risk.

unimagmative13 · 07/10/2016 21:57

Local Facebook groups have a lot to answer for.

Lorelei76 · 07/10/2016 22:00

dingit, it's funny you say that because I'm scared of teens trick or treating in my parents' area - my folks are elderly and fragile.

I actually wish the whole trick or treat thing didn't exist but that's another thread.

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