‘Northampton Clown’ Thrills, Scares British Town as Mystery Entertainer Haunts Shadows
This is an interesting story that I found online. I checked a few different sites for this story, and posted them all above. Basically, It tells of a man in the town of Northampton who dresses up as Pennywise from Stephen King's movie "It". He goes around at night, sometimes with balloons, and sometimes with a freaky-looking teddy bear. It's also been said that he's gone around to a few people's houses offering to paint their window sills, even though it's obvious that he doesn't have any painting supplies on him. One person claimed that he had a knife, though the man denies it.
There are some that find him not-so-funny. Or, terrifying. The guy has come out and said, though, that he is just doing it to make people laugh. He says that it's like a scary movie, he scares people, and then they can laugh about it later.
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I'm not quite sure what to think about this one. It makes me wonder if it's disturbing the piece for him to be going around freaking people out. I'm fine with him doing it, I kind of think it's funny, but there are people out there (a lot) who have serious fears about clowns. The question has also been raised by people if this is just a prank, or if this guy is a mad man. It has obviously freaked some people out.
I don't think that he is doing anything illegal by doing this, but I want to know, how safe do you feel with a freaky clown going around at night? Hmm. I've seen a lot stranger.
So although there're a lot of people who would like to keep him off of the streets, I'm fine with it. He can do what he wants. I think people need to develop more of a sense of humor when addressing these sort of things.
Though I know that this man's intentions are not to harm people, it's hard to know how genuine those intentions are. There are a lot of scary people in the world, it's hard to tell who truly has good intentions and who does not. There have been a few instances where villain fanatics do crazy things... Like dress up as Bane and shoot a whole bunch of people in a movie theater. I think that if the people feel unsafe by his "joke" then the best thing he can do is respect their opinion and stop. If he really does enjoy things of this nature, which he seems to, then he could work at a haunted house of sorts. That way he can get his fix of scaring people and the people he's scaring actually want to be scared.
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