http://www.kvue.com/news/local/texas-state-student-attacked-by-man-dressed-as-clown-school-says/329059619
(It's not letting me copy-paste, so paraphrasing.)
Monday night, a student I know was grabbed as she was heading back to her apartments by someone dressed up in a clown outfit. It's a bit unsettling, because most nights I walk alone for about 2-3 miles to get back to my car through this area after work or class... I have not once felt unsafe in the two years I have been doing that, but now that's changing.
The reason I posted it though is that this is a trend spreading across the United States, of people in clown outfits harassing people and threatening schools.
I just don't get what is wrong with people. This falls into the "prank" videos that are so huge now that are not pranks but just being a jackass. Just a few days ago in Dallas, one of these clowns got his ass beat because he was carrying a bat. And I am sorry, but if you are dressed like this at night, harassing women (like this guy) or just anyone you see... you "deserve" (are asking to) to get beat up and/or shot. They don't know if you are just pranking them or are actually hiding your face and stalking them because you are about to mug, rape or kill them... especially when you are holding a weapon.
My gut tells me 99.9% of these people are idiots just looking to scare people and be a douche bag, but it's just such a fucking stupid idea... I just don't get it.
The clown thing started here about a month ago. I overheard children in the neighborhood talking about whose dad is going to shoot the clown lurking in the woods. Guess what I am NOT going to be for Halloween.
Penn State students just had a mob freak out because someone reported seeing a clown. Here is a video.
https://twitter.com/mitchystew/status/783160579901054976
Quote from: GSOgymrat on October 05, 2016, 02:50:43 PM
The clown thing started here about a month ago. I overheard children in the neighborhood talking about whose dad is going to shoot the clown lurking in the woods. Guess what I am NOT going to be for Halloween.
Penn State students just had a mob freak out because someone reported seeing a clown. Here is a video.
https://twitter.com/mitchystew/status/783160579901054976
HA!
Quote from: GSOgymrat on October 05, 2016, 02:50:43 PM
The clown thing started here about a month ago. I overheard children in the neighborhood talking about whose dad is going to shoot the clown lurking in the woods. Guess what I am NOT going to be for Halloween.
Penn State students just had a mob freak out because someone reported seeing a clown. Here is a video.
https://twitter.com/mitchystew/status/783160579901054976
This is so weird. So these people are running away from a clown mob? What is really going on there?
E: OK, I have just been corrected that it is actually about ONE clown people are running away from like this. Are these people crazy?
Freedom of speech versus yelling fire in a crowded theater.
Where exactly do clowns land?
Quote from: TomFoolery on October 05, 2016, 05:00:05 PM
Freedom of speech versus yelling fire in a crowded theater.
Where exactly do clowns land?
At night time with a bat or when stalking?
About 5 tiers above the theatre.
Quote from: TomFoolery on October 05, 2016, 05:00:05 PM
Freedom of speech versus yelling fire in a crowded theater.
Where exactly do clowns land?
Mimes don't speek or yell. Surrender monkeys! Being black at a KKK rally? Why assume the average person is sane ... because of majoritarianism? How is this any different than Arab men assaulting skin showing women? And what is wrong with holding a weapon ... I thought we had decided to endorse open carry ... how is open carry of a bike horn scarier than open carry of an uzi? Shiranu ... your beard might be too ME ... too triggering. I bet it is loaded too, if you have been drinking ;-) Fact is people just want to go out and kill anyone who looks different ... so let us all look alike, so people aren't freaked by freaks. Not enough to be Stepford wives, let us all be identical department store manikins ... all plastic White female with changeable wig hair and no sex organs ... that will please the Puritans.
Quote from: GSOgymrat on October 05, 2016, 02:50:43 PM
Penn State students just had a mob freak out because someone reported seeing a clown. Here is a video.
https://twitter.com/mitchystew/status/783160579901054976
This is one strange video. It could serve as a template in a Hollywood comedy film. I'm wondering if it was staged. Hundreds of people running from a clown? Zombies or Independence day Aliens maybe, but a clown? Wasn't there at least one drunk jock in the crowd who would want to prove himself by whoopin' some clown ass?
Quote from: Baruch on October 05, 2016, 09:15:21 PM
Mimes don't speek or yell. Surrender monkeys! Being black at a KKK rally? Why assume the average person is sane ... because of majoritarianism? How is this any different than Arab men assaulting skin showing women? And what is wrong with holding a weapon ... I thought we had decided to endorse open carry ... how is open carry of a bike horn scarier than open carry of an uzi? Shiranu ... your beard might be too ME ... too triggering. I bet it is loaded too, if you have been drinking ;-) Fact is people just want to go out and kill anyone who looks different ... so let us all look alike, so people aren't freaked by freaks. Not enough to be Stepford wives, let us all be identical department store manikins ... all plastic White female with changeable wig hair and no sex organs ... that will please the Puritans.
No, because average people -we- assume that -we are- they are sane. That's the biggest majority you could ever think of.
'Arab men', Baruch? If you mean muslims, only 12 % of muslims are Arabs and probably half of is male. And any of them assaulting a skin showing woman is exactly the same thing as most western men and women agree that 'if a woman is dressed like a slut she is asking for it'. The former group is living in a society where no women dressed in revealing clothes, the latter is supposedly live in a society where women can wear anything they want. In both societies the rape culture is rampant and they both think theirs is much better than the other one. Pffft.
But attacking theatres showing Batman with a joker syndrome, massive Halloween pranks with running away from clowns, endorsing open carry of automatic weapons...etc those are uniquely American I promise. We just have the boring old bombings and civil wars from ancient feuds over here.
Quote from: SGOS on October 06, 2016, 04:09:22 AM
This is one strange video. It could serve as a template in a Hollywood comedy film. I'm wondering if it was staged. Hundreds of people running from a clown? Zombies or Independence day Aliens maybe, but a clown? Wasn't there at least one drunk jock in the crowd who would want to prove himself by whoopin' some clown ass?
I think Americans got in the Halloween spirit a bit too deep and early this year. And massive clown pranks are a thing this year.
I was joking about open carry. Middle Class Americans assume everyone is just like them, and panic when they find that isn't true.
CLOWN!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbC_HNHQ9JY
Yes, Ameri-maniacs!
Apparently they were running to hunt down the clown.
http://time.com/4517709/penn-state-clown-hunt/
Quote from: GSOgymrat on October 06, 2016, 09:08:36 AM
Apparently they were running to hunt down the clown.
http://time.com/4517709/penn-state-clown-hunt/
Oh, bummer. It was funnier my way.
Ever since penny luck I always knew clowns were evil. I'd run away too.
Quote from: doorknob on October 06, 2016, 10:22:55 AM
Ever since penny luck I always knew clowns were evil. I'd run away too.
Or run towards them with a pitchfork
Then again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xSNiPx791A
Quote from: Munch on October 06, 2016, 10:56:02 AM
Or run towards them with a pitchfork
Then again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xSNiPx791A
That is messed up! This prank doesn't appear to have happened where people regularly carry firearms.
Quote from: doorknob on October 06, 2016, 10:22:55 AM
Ever since penny luck I always knew clowns were evil. I'd run away too.
Gotta be able to tell movies from reality however ;-)
(http://i.imgur.com/Datu46s.png)
Poor Raquel, the world must look very different from that angle.
Quote from: Baruch on October 06, 2016, 01:32:15 PM
Gotta be able to tell movies from reality however ;-)
nope penny luck is real. That's why I still sleep with my lights on.
Quote from: doorknob on October 06, 2016, 10:22:55 AM
Ever since penny luck I always knew clowns were evil. I'd run away too.
(http://www.jhmoncrieff.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/John-Wayne-Gacy-picture.jpg)
Clowns are now being banned from Halloween. Clown Lives Matter marches also being held by the real clowns to show that clowns are good people. Good for them. I support Clown Lives Matter.
I have done Jewish Halloween aka Purim ... scares the Haman out of anti-Semites. With the Mexicanizing of the US ... the US will celebrate Halloween more like Mexico ... and eating sugar skeletons won't be considered freaky anymore.
Its always something. Years ago it was witch costumes. This yearsome few idiots are wearing clown costumes. Next year it might be Dracula or Trump.
Quote from: Cavebear on October 22, 2016, 01:36:38 AMTrump.
Go around in a Trump facemask and shout "Grab 'em by the pussy!" at Halloween.
Quote from: TomFoolery on October 05, 2016, 05:00:05 PM
Freedom of speech versus yelling fire in a crowded theater.
Where exactly do clowns land?
That's not what it says: "Freedom of speech vs yelling fire in a clowned theater. That is the correct reading.
"This clown is my land,
This clown is your land,
From the Rio Grande to
To the US border.
This land is our land,
We stole it day by day,
Just so the Indians
Would be free!"