The scary clown chronicles continue, and so do the revelations that online threats are coming from teens. (Of course.)
Today’s entry comes from Perry Township, where police responded to a threat with an arrest on Monday.
The person behind a threatening Twitter messages from @Fr0wntheCl0wn (the account has since been suspended, in case you were wondering) is a 7th grader in the Perry Local School District. A 12-year-old. The student was charged with one count of inducing panic, a felony, and was taken to the Multi-County Juvenile Attention System detention facility in Canton Township.
Also down Canton-way, via the Repository: Four people in clown masks were spotted at an intersection the other night in East Sparta. The Magnolia police department, which handles work for East Sparta, shared the account on its Facebook page. Tips quickly poured in, because, as Sgt. Michael Balash of the Magnolia police said, “In a town of 1,000 people, even though you may have a mask on, multiple people who witnessed this, know who the participants were. This is teenagers, we think, making very poor decisions.”
This has been today’s not very surprising clowning update.
This article appears in Oct 5-11, 2016.
Getting harassed by a mime is creepier.
That actually happened to me in the Eighties. It was in downtown Chicago…the mime began following me and mimicking the way I walk. Showing off for passers-by and trying to get a few chuckles )excuse the pun) from my wife and my aging parents.
Had they not been with me, I would have almost certainly knocked the living shit out of him, right there in Grant Park. I wonder if he’d have made gagging and retching noises after I kicked him in the nuts? Who’s laughing now, pal?
As for those young punks, you can’t have Twitter without the Twit.
Chuckles the Clown
Oh chuckles who are you kidding. You would have done nothing just as you proved. I love how you clowns get soo tough when you’re home safe behind your computer screen.