Creepy clowns cause sheriff to consult with FBI and Homeland Security


By Ms. Smith
Creepy clowns cause sheriff to consult with FBI and Homeland Security



Credit: Circe Denyer

There's no end in sight for creepy clown reports thanks to social media hysteria. Dress like a clown, and you might be arrested and charged with 'inducing panic and terroristic threatening.'

you are going to be dressing up in a costume for Halloween, you might want to avoid dressing like a creepy clown, considering the sinister clown hysteria sweeping the nation. You don’t want to wear a clown costume in Kentucky where a sheriff contacted the FBI and Homeland Security over the “creepy clown” threat. In fact, in Gallatin County, Kentucky, the sheriff warned that people behind “clown threats” might face charges of “inducing panic and terroristic threatening.”
Pennywise from Stephen King’s It really ruined clowns for a lot of people, changing their opinion of clowns from funny or cute to scary and creepy as can be. When the evil clown craze first started cranking up, some people suggested the clown sightings were pranks tied to some sort of promotion for the upcoming film It. Others suggested the clown sightings were inspired by Rob Zombie’s film 31, which includes kidnapped hostages trying to survive a violent game against a gang of sadistic clowns.
Reports of seeing menacing clowns spread fast through social media and often end up on the news. It seems to have started in August in Greenville, South Carolina, where clowns allegedly
were trying to lure kids into the woods. From there, it ballooned 
into reports of people in clown costumes lurking in parks, assaulting people, chasing people and even threatening to kill people.
Often, the creepy clown sightings are just pranks, yet clowns have become such a threat that police have reverted to the terrorist threat motto of “if you see something, say something.”
Yesterday, after Gallatin County Kentucky Schools reportedly received a clown-related “vague threat of violence”—two “clowns” had threatened to shoot high school students—school attendance dropped to 48 percent.





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