Apparently clowns are trying to lure children in South Carolina.

[KRYPTON INC.]

So it's settled... We send Neil down to find out what's going on with these mystery clowns.

 

[Synekal]

If my poor home state ever made the news for anything good it would be a miracle,smh.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

 

[Marvolo]

Creepy Clown Sightings Spread To Second State

Masked figures reportedly have been spotted in North Carolina this week.

The number of clowns prowling around neighborhoods and calling out to children appears to be on the rise, with the latest reported sightings coming out of North Carolina.

Around 10 a.m. Tuesday, a resident reported seeing a masked figure emerging from woods near an apartment complex in Greensboro, North Carolina, police announced in a release.

The figure was described as wearing a “scary clown mask, red curly wig, yellow dotted shirt, blue clown pants and clown shoes,” police said.

A second person who says he saw the clown responded by arming himself with a machete and chasing the masked man back into the woods. However, police said they couldn’t locate the suspect during a search.

Two days earlier, children had reported seeing a similarly dressed figure prowling around their community in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, about 30 miles to the west.

They described a creepy character wearing “white overalls, white gloves, red shoes with red bushy hair, a white face and a red nose,” Winston-Salem police stated in an incident report obtained Tuesday by The Huffington Post.

That mystery man allegedly offered the kids treats if they would follow him into the woods. One adult apparently heard but did not see the clown, according to police.

That call came around 8:30 p.m., and police said another followed about four hours later. Officers responded to the scene, about 1.5 miles away, but didn’t find anyone matching the caller’s description.

The chilling incidents come about two weeks after residents in Greenville, South Carolina ― a town about 180 miles southwest of Winston-Salem ― reported similar sightings.

According to an incident report filed at the time, children and adults said they saw several clowns wandering around Greenville’s Fleetwood Manor Apartment Complex beginning on Aug. 19.

Some of the masked figures allegedly even called out to the children and displayed large amounts of money in a bid to lure them closer, witnesses told the local sheriff’s office.

Authorities have said that they are increasing surveillance, and hope to discourage pranksters from carrying out similar behavior.

“Although it is lawful to dress as a clown, given the heightened tensions about these entertainers, officials are discouraging ‘copycat’ behavior by individuals who may find it humorous to mimic suspicious behavior,” Greensboro police said in their release. “Copycats unnecessarily alarm the public and place an unnecessary drain on police resources.”

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_57ceb0dbe4b0a22de096be7a

This is way too close to where I live. Guess its time to dust off my 12 gauge.

 

[Sawyer]

Oh my Gawd.

 

[Xrated48]

Creepy Clown Sightings Spread To Second State

Masked figures reportedly have been spotted in North Carolina this week.



http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_57ceb0dbe4b0a22de096be7a

This is way too close to where I live. Guess its time to dust off my 12 gauge.

This is getting scary it's like watching It again except in real life. It seems like these are just copycats but I'm suprised when that guy chased the clowns they vanished and the guy lost traced of them, strange.

 

[Black Narcissus]

[scratches the chalk board to get everyone's attention]


Y'all know me. Know how I earn a livin'. I'll catch these clowns for yall, but it ain't gonna be easy. Weird folks. Not like going down the walmart chasin' overweight women on electric carts and tommycods. These clowns, swallow you whole. Little shakin', little tenderizin', an' down you go. And we gotta do it quick, that'll bring back your tourists, put all your businesses on a payin' basis. But it's not gonna be pleasant. I value my neck a lot more than three thousand bucks, chiefs. I'll find them for three, but I'll catch them, and pimp slap em, for ten. But you've gotta make up your minds. If you want to keep yo kids alive, then ante up. If you want to play it cheap, be on welfare the whole winter. I don't want no volunteers, I don't want no mates, there's just too many captains on this land. $10,000 for me by myself. For that you get the clown head, the dumb shoes, red nose, the whole damn thing.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

You know, I thought of Jaws while discussing The Grey in the Unpopular Film Opinions thread, and not long after you come with this reference.
You sir, deserve to raise your price, $10,000 ain't as good now as they were in the 70s.

 

[Drizzle]

[scratches the chalk board to get everyone's attention]


Y'all know me. Know how I earn a livin'. I'll catch these clowns for yall, but it ain't gonna be easy. Weird folks. Not like going down the walmart chasin' overweight women on electric carts and tommycods. These clowns, swallow you whole. Little shakin', little tenderizin', an' down you go. And we gotta do it quick, that'll bring back your tourists, put all your businesses on a payin' basis. But it's not gonna be pleasant. I value my neck a lot more than three thousand bucks, chiefs. I'll find them for three, but I'll catch them, and pimp slap em, for ten. But you've gotta make up your minds. If you want to keep yo kids alive, then ante up. If you want to play it cheap, be on welfare the whole winter. I don't want no volunteers, I don't want no mates, there's just too many captains on this land. $10,000 for me by myself. For that you get the clown head, the dumb shoes, red nose, the whole damn thing.

 

[Kane52630]

 

[Fallen Angel]

I want to know how Trump would deal with the clowns.

 

[Kane52630]

He wouldn't go against his kind.

 

[Drizzle]

He wouldn't go against his kind.

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[Sawyer]

I want to know how Trump would deal with the clowns.

The same way he deals with all people of a different color. He throws Chris Christie at them and runs.

 

[KevanG]

[scratches the chalk board to get everyone's attention]


Y'all know me. Know how I earn a livin'. I'll catch these clowns for yall, but it ain't gonna be easy. Weird folks. Not like going down the walmart chasin' overweight women on electric carts and tommycods. These clowns, swallow you whole. Little shakin', little tenderizin', an' down you go. And we gotta do it quick, that'll bring back your tourists, put all your businesses on a payin' basis. But it's not gonna be pleasant. I value my neck a lot more than three thousand bucks, chiefs. I'll find them for three, but I'll catch them, and pimp slap em, for ten. But you've gotta make up your minds. If you want to keep yo kids alive, then ante up. If you want to play it cheap, be on welfare the whole winter. I don't want no volunteers, I don't want no mates, there's just too many captains on this land. $10,000 for me by myself. For that you get the clown head, the dumb shoes, red nose, the whole damn thing.

Sam, how much to make them just 'vanish'? I'm sure the parents of the affected states would pony up a few bucks each to make the problem 'disappear'.

 

[Duke]

Good thing I always carry my sidearm,

 

[TheDreamMaster]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/re...ice-say/ar-AAiCctY?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp

There have been reports of more clowns in more cities spotted lurking in the woods.

In the past month, police in the Carolinas have received multiple reports from people claiming clowns with white-painted faces were acting strangely in the area – at least once attempting to lure kids into the woods with money.
The reports have fueled speculation that the sightings could be a hoax, or possibly even morbid fans trying to promote the 2017 movie release of Stephen King's It, about an evil clown known as Pennywise that terrorized a group of young boys.
One local TV station wondered if Rob Zombie's upcoming film, about a group of kidnapped carnival workers, might be involved in guerrilla marketing – but the distributor said they were not.
"If this is a hoax or publicity stunt it is not funny," Greensboro police spokeswoman Susan Danielsen tells PEOPLE. "It is alarming to the public and a drain on police resources. We just don't know at this point, because we haven't had the chance to interview any clowns."
The latest sighting occurred on Tuesday, when a man brandishing a machete chased a clown into the woods near an apartment complex in Greensboro, North Carolina, police said.
The person, who was wearing a scary clown mask, red curly wig, yellow dotted shirt, blue clown pants and clown shoes, ran back into the woods and disappeared from view, according to police.
"We don't know why he was there or what he was doing there," Danielsen says. She says officers scoured the area, but couldn't find anyone.

While it's not illegal to dress as a clown in Greensboro, Danielsen says the city has an ordinance that prohibits people from wearing a mask within city limits.
The police department, she says, is also discouraging "copycat behavior."

In August, several residents at an apartment complex in Greenville, South Carolina, reported seeing clowns lurking in the nearby woods.
According to a Greenville County Sheriff's Office incident report obtained by PEOPLE, a deputy spoke to a woman on Aug. 21 who claimed her son had seen clowns in the woods, whispering and making noises, and when she went over to check, she saw several clowns flashing green laser lights in the woods before they ran off.
Another resident told the deputy that she'd been walking home to her apartment hours before, at 2:30 a.m., and saw a "large-figured clown with a blinking nose, standing under a post light near the garbage dumpster area," according to the incident report.
According to the report, several children also told the deputy that clowns had approached them behind one of the apartment buildings and tried to lure them into the woods "by displaying large amounts of money."
"There has been a couple of people that have seen them," Master Deputy Drew Pinciaro of the Greenville County Sheriff's Office told PEOPLE in an earlier interview. "Mainly it has been children who have reported they have seen these clowns in the woods. Every time we have gone out there we have not seen any clowns."
The children said the clowns lived in a house near a pond at the end of a hiking trail, according to the report. The deputy found the house, but "there were no signs of suspicious activity or characters dressed in clown attire," according to the report.
Greenville Police Chief Ken Miller said last week that "the clowning around needs to stop."
"It's illegal, it's dangerous, it's inappropriate, it's creating community concern," he said.
Miller said the reported clown sightings have included various descriptions, with differences in both race and costume, and that at that point police had found no evidence supporting the sightings.
Days later, on Sept. 4, residents in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, reportedly saw a clown attempting to entice kids into the woods with treats, the Associated Press reports.
Police said two children saw the clown, and an adult heard the clown, according to the news agency.
Police responded to the area but found no signs of the creepy character, who was seen wearing white overalls, white gloves, red shoes with red bushy hair, a white face and a red nose, according to the AP.

My first thought... "Killer Clowns from Outer Space.... Holy s***".

 

[Drizzle]

This still doesn't scare me as much as the election does.

 

[Xrated48]

This still doesn't scare me as much as the election does.

Agreed even though this is still kinda creepy

 

[Guts]

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[dude stannis]

Y'all leave Greens alone. He didn't lure any of your kids into the woods.

 

[Greens]

Y'all leave Greens alone. He didn't lure any of your kids into the woods.

The wych elm doesn't grow in South Carolina.

 

[dude stannis]

Yeah, you only do it in classy countries like England.

 

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[Mike_D202]