Panic as clown terror spreads to southern France. Anti-clown militias mobilize. - Polidicks

[img]http://scd.france24.com/en/files/imagecache/france24_ct_api_bigger_169/article/image/clown.jpg[/img] [quote] A police source said the teens were arrested in the parking lot of a secondary school in the port town of Agde, as several other complaints poured in over "armed clowns" in the region over the weekend. In the Mediterranean city of Montpellier a man disguised as a clown was arrested after beating up a pedestrian with an iron bar, while three motorists in different towns complained about "scary clowns" threatening them. The phenomenon of dressing up as an evil clown and terrifying passers-by cropped up in the north of France [URL="http://www.france24.com/en/20141024-france-armed-clowns-scary-pranks-bethune-police-arrest/"]in early October[/URL]. In the northern French town of Bethune, a man was given a six-month suspended jail term Monday for threatening passers-by while in full circus garb. Using fake weapons these "clowns" have been "mostly spotted outside schools, but also on public roads, in bushes, in a square. Their targets are often young children or teenagers, but also adults," a police source in northern France told AFP. Theories abound as to the origin of the trend in a country where American fear-fest Halloween has yet to take hold. These include a challenge launched on social networks, a video published on YouTube showing a terrifying clown pranking people -- which has had some 31 million views -- or even a recent episode of popular series American Horror Story featuring Twisty the killer clown. [B]Anti-clown vigilantes[/B] After a rumour of a clown stalking the eastern town of Mulhouse, five teenagers on Wednesday armed themselves with a baseball bat, a teargas canister, a hammer and a truncheon to mete out vigilante justice to the not-so-funny pranksters. They were arrested and later released –– but the incident prompted the national police to step in to quell the hysteria. "Since mid-October, a rumour inspired by videos published on the internet, is worrying the population about the presence of threatening and aggressive clowns in France," the national police said in a statement this week. The statement cautioned that "despite numerous reports made to police, there have been only a few sightings of people dressed as clowns having fun scaring passers-by." "Symptomatic of the impact of the internet, this phenomenon can lead to damaging individual acts and disturbances to public order."[/quote] [url=http://www.france24.com/en/20141026-panic-clown-terror-spreads-southern-france/]link[/url]

Check the sewer drain

Clowns are funny.

Clowns are sly tricksters who, when meaning to frown, turn upon their heads and smile red upside down. They're really quite treacherous, beguiling and wicked. And ne'er to be trusted, less so than spriggans.

So it's finally happened in reality, the Clown-Mime Wars are upon us. Everyone prepare yourselves for hourly readings of Woody's Got Wood, fortify your soul against it.

Tim Curry went trick or treating again didn't he?

[QUOTE=JumpinJackFlash;46339506]So it's finally happened in reality, the Clown-Mime Wars are upon us. Everyone prepare yourselves for hourly readings of Woody's Got Wood, fortify your soul against it.[/QUOTE] Honk.

Spooky as hell man

Clowns are great. It's one of those things people try to act "cute and hip" by having a "phobia" of like spiders. Makes a great basis for knowing who is going to have a really annoying personality. Pro tip: if you actually recoil in terror over the idea of clowns or spiders, you need to see a therapist because your fear is irrational and stupid.

[QUOTE=draugur;46339562]Clowns are great. It's one of those things people try to act "cute and hip" by having a "phobia" of like spiders. Makes a great basis for knowing who is going to have a really annoying personality. Pro tip: if you actually recoil in terror over the idea of clowns or spiders, you need to see a therapist because your fear is irrational and stupid.[/QUOTE] do you even understand what a phobia is

People dressed as clowns are started to pop up in the middle of the night to screw with people here in the US.

Is Captain Spaulding with them? [video=youtube;8bVWtIDPkmQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bVWtIDPkmQ[/video]

[QUOTE=draugur;46339562]Clowns are great. It's one of those things people try to act "cute and hip" by having a "phobia" of like spiders.[/QUOTE] You're funny

[QUOTE=noobcake;46339747]do you even understand what a phobia is[/QUOTE] Yeah, it's an IRRATIONAL fear of something. It's something that people who actually have a real phobia often have to see therapists over, because you know, it's actually a problem.

The clown can not honk if you disable his hands.

[QUOTE=draugur;46339562]Clowns are great. It's one of those things people try to act "cute and hip" by having a "phobia" of like spiders. Makes a great basis for knowing who is going to have a really annoying personality. Pro tip: if you actually recoil in terror over the idea of clowns or spiders, you need to see a therapist because your fear is irrational and stupid.[/QUOTE] i don't know where you got the idea that people think phobias are cool and that you should fake them to look cool

[QUOTE=matt000024;46339294]Clowns are funny.[/QUOTE] I'm honestly surprised someone didn't make a comment along the lines of "There's something funny going on here" yet.

There's something funny going on here

"anti-clown militia" Well that escalated quickly, man I always thought fear of clowns was a bad joke guess I was wrong

[QUOTE=Aurora93;46340035]i don't know where you got the idea that people think phobias are cool and that you should fake them to look cool[/QUOTE] Honestly, I didn't know that cool was still a thing. I thought soccer moms killed that word back in the 00s.

[QUOTE=Zenreon117;46340154]Honestly, I didn't know that cool was still a thing. I thought soccer moms killed that word back in the 00s.[/QUOTE] i am super [b][i]rad[/i][/b] as heck

[QUOTE=Zenreon117;46340154]Honestly, I didn't know that cool was still a thing. I thought soccer moms killed that word back in the 00s.[/QUOTE] bro are you living under a rock or in a sewer or like how could you possibly think that

[QUOTE=draugur;46339562]Clowns are great. It's one of those things people try to act "cute and hip" by having a "phobia" of like spiders. Makes a great basis for knowing who is going to have a really annoying personality. Pro tip: if you actually recoil in terror over the idea of clowns or spiders, you need to see a therapist because your fear is irrational and stupid.[/QUOTE] No need to be a dickhead, and phobias are irrational, that's why It's called a phobia.

[QUOTE=Zenreon117;46339275]Check the sewer drain[/QUOTE] To test for clowns, do a witch-dunking style test. Throw them into a body a water with their arms and legs tied. If they float, they're a clown.

Must be that "Insane Clown Posse" gang the FBI was talking about.

[QUOTE=LTJGPliskin;46339867]Is Captain Spaulding with them? [video=youtube;8bVWtIDPkmQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bVWtIDPkmQ[/video][/QUOTE] Don't ever turn your back on a clown

[QUOTE=draugur;46339912]Yeah, it's an IRRATIONAL fear of something. It's something that people who actually have a real phobia often have to see therapists over, because you know, it's actually a problem.[/QUOTE] Okay. But where did you get this idiotic idea people are doing it to be cool?

This is the greatest news story ever written. Nothing can top this.

[QUOTE=draugur;46339562]Clowns are great. It's one of those things people try to act "cute and hip" by having a "phobia" of like spiders. Makes a great basis for knowing who is going to have a really annoying personality. Pro tip: if you actually recoil in terror over the idea of clowns or spiders, you need to see a therapist because your fear is irrational and stupid.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=draugur;46339912]Yeah, it's an IRRATIONAL fear of something. It's something that people who actually have a real phobia often have to see therapists over, because you know, it's actually a problem.[/QUOTE] I have a phobia of shit posts am I cool?

[QUOTE=draugur;46339562]Clowns are great. It's one of those things people try to act "cute and hip" by having a "phobia" of like spiders. Makes a great basis for knowing who is going to have a really annoying personality. Pro tip: if you actually recoil in terror over the idea of clowns or spiders, you need to see a therapist because your fear is irrational and stupid.[/QUOTE] My friends mum has a phobia of shirt buttons. But nah, she's clearly faking it to show how in touch she is with youth culture.