Let me get this straight, clowns banned from halloween because they creep people out too much?!?!?! Apparently out east clowns have been banned from Halloween because of all the recent creepy clown sightings this summer and fall. Mind you, no one has been hurt by these creepy clowns, but they freak people out enough that the powers that be in Connecticut have prohibited children from dressing up as clowns in all 48 New Haven schools.
Clowns Banned from Halloween
“Unfortunately, clown-themed posturing has been a growing trend throughout the country, particularly on social media,” said the New Haven school district, which enrolls 21,500 students, in a statement on Tuesday.
Clowns are scary, therefore we can’t dress up as clowns for Halloween.
Ummm….
Isn’t that the point of Halloween? To dress up as something scary?
Again, with all of the recent creepy clown sightings in the last few months, all have been hoaxes.
Why the hell is everyone freaking out? People in my generation have been terrified of clowns since the stories of John Wayne Gacy were whispered at every campfire and slumber party. Clowns are creepy as fuck, and that’s why they’re so fun to dress as for Halloween.
Even Stephen King said people are overreacting. Stephen King, the author who gave us Pennywise, the creepy clown from his novel IT.
“Hey, guys, time to cool the clown hysteria,” King tweeted on Monday, “most of em are good, cheer up the kiddies, make people laugh.”
Having clowns banned from Halloween is like banning candy from Halloween or banning the movie Elf pretty much any time of the year because it is always on somewhere.
What good will banning clowns from Halloween do anyway? If perverts really are dressing up as clowns in order to entice kids to come with them (clearly they never got the memo that clowns are creepy and most kids would run from them anyway) what’s to stop them from dressing up as Darth Vadar, Captain America, a Transformer or even Elsa from Frozen?
I think the people out east have underestimated perverts.
Apparently clown masks sales are up 300% since last year. So even though clowns have been banned from Halloween, at least out east, expect to see them all over the place on Halloween night. You may even see a couple of them through November 8th.
This is how xenophobia starts. We hear a couple stories about bad clowns so all clowns are bad? There are good clowns. My dad used to know one.
I’m kidding, but these panics are weird.
Robert Anton Wilson, in one of his Cosmic Trigger books, talks about a panic that happened in Housotn in the Eighties, where there was a rumor of a biker gang called The Smurfs that was kidnapping children. It was a complete fiction, but parents kept their kids home from school.