Pro-Clown Rally Quashed by Death Threats
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The creepy clown craze has acquired a whole new layer of strangeness after the much-anticipated ‘Clown Lives Matter’ rally scheduled for today was cancelled due to death threats!
Conceived as a celebration of uncorrupted clowning, the gathering that was to be held in Tucson over the weekend has been called off by organizer Shelly Gutierrez.
Writing as her alter ego ‘Nikki Sinn,’ Gutierrez took to Facebook to announce the cancellation, saying “with the numerous death threats and harassment, it’s sad to say we have canceled what was supposed to be a fun, peaceful walk.”
The crestfallen clown promised that those behind the online bullying would be reported to authorities.
This latest turn of events in what some are calling a ‘clown crisis’ is a significant blow to professional performers who simply want to fill the world with mirth and merriment.
Our clown craze correspondent, investigative journalist Adam Gorightly, observed that “it’s a sad day in America when we can’t celebrate the great diversity and many positive contributions that the clown community has given us.”
When asked if the onslaught of sightings could be orchestrated by some nefarious cabal, Gorightly ominously replied with an emphatic, “no one controls the clowns.”
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Ahh, what a wondrous time to be alive.
Although I kid, it really is a sad time when clowns are getting death threats and losing work.
It saddens me that people want to take clowns and make them creepy and murderous. They’re supposed to be such innocent sources of laughter!
@jqubed I agree. it sucks that such people exist,
@jqubed I love scary clowns… But I also respect the party clown and I feel terrible that people are so freaked out right now that they would threaten the good clowns.
@jqubed My friend thinks this started out as a studio stunt that got out of control for the remake of Stephen King’s It currently in production.
@moondrake There’s a marketing executive crapping right bricks now if that is so. I wonder how all this is going to affect the movie’s ticket sales.
@Knightp I don’t think it’ll affect it that much. There’s tons of diehard fans that are still going to see it.
What’s next?? Will Red Nose Day be forcibly stopped by clown bullies? Will Send In The Clowns be forbidden from being played? All balloon animals popped? When will this crisis be averted?
It’s been reported that a multitude of celebrities, birthday party entertainers, and closet clown enthusiasts are coming together to support the clown lifestyle. Clowning Around : A tribute to bow ties, fake flowers and floppy shows airs Monday night at 9p/8p Central on the CW.
They should have done it anyway. Giving in to bullies only makes more bullies.
@Pantheist
@Pantheist They let the terrorists win. I hope the cops are taking this seriously. I was reading on this and it looks like, other than possibly some kids getting chased, no crimes have been committed in this whole clown scare nonsense. From what I have read the over-reaction is just like a clown, silly, grotesque and fundamentally disturbing. I don’t know if people are just so bored with their lives they are looking for anything to create drama, or if people really are this xenophobic and reactionary.
@moondrake While the internet has fundamentally changed my life for the better, it has also set the stage for bullshit like this. Now, I’ve never liked clowns, but I’ve also understood that my dislike doesn’t give me free reign to do whatever to them. Besides the obvious lack of accountability, I think people are forgetting that there are real people on the other side of their screen.
@Pantheist
I’m cool with clowns in their proper settings - rodeos (where they appear to be entirely essential and save lives by risking their own), kids parties, entertainment settings, circuses, etc. I’m cool with clowns going to and from work.
I think there is a clown college somewhere? In Sarasota perhaps?
I don’t care for clowns in the street who lack an obvious reason for being there, because too many disturbing possibilities for why someone is wearing makeup that disguises the face, but it’s not illegal. And clowns shiuld be able to hold rallies and conventions like anyone else. These threats as as vile as everything else going on now.
Are we now the United States of Xenophobia?
I once did Halloween as a clown, with clown companions, in the Village and Soho in NYC. We just did the outfits. No makeup. It was fun.
@moondrake A lot is overreaction, I agree but if you heard one of the kids talking about how terrified they were when "just being chased ", you’d take it a bit more seriously. We had one try to lead a kid into the woods. I don’t think this one is part of the so-called pranking going on, I think he was a pedofile who just jumped on the clown bandwagon. It’s not funny at all what they’re doing, the Facebook pages alone are disturbing. That said, threatening anyone is very wrong.
@mehbee My point is that right now there are kids, thousands of kids, actually in the hands of abusers and pedophiles. Kids being sexually assaulted by those they should be able to rely upon, parents, clergymen, teachers. Kids being prostituted by their parents to support their drug habits. And everyone is freaked out because some people in clown costumes frightened some kids and maybe, probably had illegal intent. We are so overwrought about the maybe probably and blind to the really right now. This is what I mean by over reaction. Its all out of proportion to what we should be focused on.
Hey, TRJ, can you please check in with your ugly Green step-cousins over at the other place? Message awaits.
And you know who hates clowns over there.
@hot72chev Did and done! Yay!