Kent State, like other schools and universities, has seen its share of clowning rumors and such this week. Specifically, last night saw multiple rumors and calls on campus.


What does the Kent State student body do in the face of such scary clowning rumors as police do their thing to investigate?

The answer isn’t stay inside their dorms, apparently. It is not to sit and be scared. No, Kent State kids take matters into their own hands and go freaking clown hunting.

The video below, posted last night, captures a snippet of the escapade. 



Go Golden Flashes.

This article appears in Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2016.

Vince Grzegorek has been with Scene since 2007 and editor-in-chief since 2012. He previously worked at Discount Drug Mart and Texas Roadhouse.

15 replies on “Video: Mob of Kent State Students Go Clown Hunting After Reported Sighting on Campus”

  2. It is Halloween season…
    It’s not illegal to dress up as a clown…
    It’s not illegal to be a weirdo…
    It’s not illegal to be creepy…
    It is illegal to get a mob together and beat up someone for no reason other than being creepy.

  3. Quick! Call out the National Guard!
    Issue live ammo! Lock and load!

    I’ll bet those ignorant little sheeple trampled right over the May 4th memorials, too.

    Coming up next: KSU has panty raid, sets way-back machine to 1956. We like Ike!

    Chuckles the Clown

  5. it is not illegal to dress up like a clown, it is illegal to attack people for no reason, only smart people know that

  6. Omg! Do these people not see how insane they look going out in a mob to hunt down a clown that is more then likely fake. The whole video made me sick. This is how women get ganged raped or how gay people get beat to death. Its how black people were hunted years ago. And hearing the excitement in that guys voice was disgusting. What were they planning on doing if they actually found a clown? Read him his rights and take him to jail? Call the police so they can arrest him? Probably not! They had clubs in their hands and were planning on beating someone probably to death. How ignorant can you get?

  7. At least they aren’t letting fear get the best of them. Maybe their example can be one to show that when we stand united, we can overcome those who try to breed fear into our communities. It may be legal to be a creep, but it is definitely illegal to threaten middle school kids- so take a stand, turn the tables on the clown!

  8. This was an armed lynch mob of student idiots looking to beat or kill someone…where were the cops? They’ll clock students for drinking and burning couches…why weren’t they around when they should have been? Where were the tear gas and the rubber bullets?

    How were these students any different from the rednecks and hillbillies who rioted in Mississipi and Alabama and Georgia when black students dared to enroll in the Fifties and Sixties?

    Be proud of yourselves you little assholes. You stood united against fear and terrorism. And you proved once again that everything south of I-80 is North Missitucky.

    Now go hit that dislike button, assclowns. I don’t care if it’s 1 like and 1,000 dislikes. This whole anti-clown thing reminds me of the Red Scare witch-hunts. You people suck.

    Chuckles the Clown

  9. Chuckles the clown sounds like he may be a little too butt hurt over this particular article. Are you one of these so call creepy clowns? First off, the students had no weapons. They were not armed with anything other than their hands. Just as it’s not illegal for a guy to put on a clown suit and walk around, it isn’t illegal for a group of students to walk around looking for said clown. Now what they did when they found him is a different story… but honestly, any man or woman that is ignorant enough to wear a clown suit to walk around and intimidate/terrorize others is a straight up asshole and derserves his ass beat for being a punk.

  11. NJ, do you even live in this state? How much do you even know about Kent?

    KSU is not now, and never has been, a hotbed of liberalism. Nope, not even in the days that led up to May 4th. It’s mostly suburban kids who didn’t have the grades and the smarts to get into another school, or another state school in Ohio. Their parents probably didn’t go to college, so they are the first generation to advance this far. They bring all their racial prejudices and hatreds with them from the cities and suburbs of the Midwest and Northeast. They’re yahoos.

    So given a chance to go out and hunt something down and kill it…be it an animal or a human, they could very easily form a howling mob and do so. They also like to get drunk and high to excess, and party to excess, and will riot over anything or even nothing.

    What happened May Fourth could have happened in a dozen other American towns. I lived and went to school in one. of those towns. It wasn’t KSU but I went to another MAC school, a rival of KSU, that was EXACTLY the same. In fact, we had a week of major disturbances that nearly ended the same way as May Fourth.. But you never heard of the town because it didn’t happen. Came within a single itchy trigger finger, though.

    And no, Jersey Boy, I am not the creepy clown you speak of. Right now, I am sitting 42 miles from that campus, and don’t set foot on it more than once every few years. What you are doing is condoning (look it up) mob action and a possible hate crime.

    And if you honestly believe that any man or woman wearing a clown suit is actually a dangerous “terrorist” who deserves to get their ass beaten (or worse) by a mob, then you are the asshole, punk, and most of all, a bleating. mindless, frightened sheep.

    Joe McCarthy would have been proud of you (look him up, too).

    Chuckles the Clown ( a different one…sans costume)

  12. Nice shirt, Jersey Boy…ywhy am I not surprised?
    Your crying star-spangled eagle is gonna be doing a lot more sobbing five weeks from now, when your favorite clown, Agent Orange, bites the dust in defeat.

    Deal with it.

    Chuckles the Clown

  13. I’m going to start calling you Cuckold the Clown. Seems fitting for your massive fetish of weirdo views.

  15. Issues? Weirdo views? Nope. Just older and wiser than most of the young, dumb punks here.

    Chuckles the Clown

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