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Right now, no one knows for sure if | Right now, no one knows for sure if the majority of these clown sighting have any basis in reality or if they are simply phantoms made up by the imaginative minds of children, and in many cases their parents and the police as well. Just like in the Salem witch trials <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials</ref>, you can't always take for gospel truth every word and every story a child tells you. Maybe it's time that we as a society start approaching some of these stories and reports with just a grain of skepticism. That if it sounds unreal, we have a right to doubt it's veracity and not be accused of "blaming the victim". That is not to say that the police should not reasonably investigate every complaint and possible threat and act with due diligence. But there is a line between act and react, just as with the case of the police officer in Arkansas being suspended for dressing as a clown, which is neither a laps in judgement nor a currently prohibited behavior. When we as a society and as individuals start overreacting to things which common sense should be telling us are make-believe, we are all in trouble and we are all just simply a bunch of clowns. | ||
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by Staff Writer - October 1, 2016
Is it real or a Halloween hoax? Recently, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia [1], Ohio [2], New Jersey [3], Oregon [4], Kentucky [5] and Tennessee have gone on high alert due to clown sightings. In South Carolina at the end of August, children reported that mysterious clowns tried to lure them into the woods. [6] [7] In Coffee county, Tennessee, police are investigating claims that a clown attacked a juvenile. In Georgia, children reported that three clowns were “wearing face paint and were shining lasers as they ran out of the woods and up and down the street”. [8] An Alabama school was briefly placed on lock down after a post on Facebook stated that clowns were at the school. [9] But is it real? No adults appear to have witnessed these events. However, in two instances the children reported that the clowns had laser pointers. The police investigators are taking these reports very seriously and let's face it, clowns are creepy. As of this time, several arrests have been made [10], and an Arkansas police officer was suspended without pay for dressing up as a clown at home during a family/friend gathering and the pictures later appeared on social media. [11]
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References
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/lagrangepolicedept/posts/1388028421224814?match=Y2xvd25z
- ↑ Another Creepy Clown Incident Reported in Ohio
- ↑ Creepy clown' epidemic comes to Upstate NY, several sightings reported
- ↑ 'Scary clown' epidemic reaches Oregon
- ↑ No laughing matter: Clown sightings have police on alert in Kentucky
- ↑ A clown appears to be trying to lure kids into woods in South Carolina
- ↑ Mystery clowns bring fear to South Carolina town
- ↑ Clowns terrorize children as they make their way to school
- ↑ Creepy clown Facebook page threat forces school district lock-down
- ↑ Creepy Clown Hoaxes Lead to 12 Arrests in Multiple States
- ↑ Police: officer suspended for dressing up as a clown
- ↑ Coulrophobia (Wikipedia)
- ↑ Lilith (Wikipedia)
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_(novel)
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne_Gacy
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials