Oh! Even in our little backwater!
We were cake baking in the youth club/space and 4 16/17 year old boys rushed in in floods of tears, terrified!
Shuffled them into the back room and got them calmed down. Apparently Pennywise and a mate, armed with golf clubs, had lept out of a hedge at them. Their immediate reaction was to scream and run away! They were scared, embarrassed and angry. Not a good mix for a 16/17 year old.
We got them calm enough to help the little ones make cakes, whilst waiting for the police to come. The PCSO said they had had a few Clown Calls and were getting mightily pissed of with the whole thing.
The worst thing, from the boys perspective, was that under the masks were people they know. So they went on facebook and told the whole story, screams, running away, crying, the lot - including pictures of the cakes they ended up making. They hoped that by owning the story, being honest about it they would not then be ridiculed by the 2 idiots.
What has also happened is that lots of other teens have posted that they too would have cried, run away, pooed other pants - and all sorts of other lovely turns of phrase. And they are all walking little brothers and sisters to the rec, staying vigilant, carrying asthma puffers (you have to have read the book 
) and generally being brave/brash!
I sort of hope they never find out who it was! Silly buggers.