If the movies “It” and “Killer Clowns from Outer Space” gave you the heebie-jeebies, there’s another reason to be scared of clowns: An outbreak of clowns in the San Joaquin Valley is terrifying residents.
On Thursday, a 14-year-old boy dressed as a clown was arrested for scaring neighborhood child on Thursday night. The teenager was charged with annoying a minor. The disturbance was one of 20 reports from Kern County in the last week of clowns terrifying children. Police have received reports of clowns wielding guns, machetes and baseball bats.
These pranks are no laughing matter to Bakersfield police. None of the clown reports have resulted in violence so far, but cops fear the trend could escalate.
“We will make arrests on this. We want this to stop,” Bakersfield Police Sgt. Joseph Grubbs told the L.A. Times.
The recent creepy clown trend started on social media on October 1. Photos of an eerie clown posed carrying balloons in poorly lit streets of Wasco, California appeared online. The “Wasco clown” photos were taken by a husband and wife team and posted to an Instagram account as part of a year-long art project.
What started as an art project has spawned the armed-clown copycats, including the arrested teenager who claimed to be copying the Wasco clown. The Wasco clown couple told KGET news that they do not support violence and have no connection to the other clowns.
Criminal Clowning
all the creepy Cali clowns
march like soldiers
face painted lines of British infantry
seltzer bottles at the ready
shooting line by line
they claim it’s art
art to scare the children
art becomes therapy
art therapy
100 million kids coping as crazy clowns
meeting fears head on
and slowly they turn
see them juggle the hand grenades
beware the napalm cream pies
stop the laughing
it’s not funny
and now they’re armed
and annoying
and dangerous
remember when they swept the spotlight
and the water made from confetti
run the circles around the center ring
Why can’t they all be like Emmett Kelly Jr.
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