Scratchtown Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 This is getting a little out of hand. Grand Island, and North Platte have both had sightings with the ones in Grand Island chasing people with knives. "Clowns" in Greeley, CO allegedly threatened to shoot up 2 schools on Halloween. Multiple states have reports. Whether innocent or not. It is absolutely creepy and a little bit unsettling. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/spike-creepy-clown-sightings-hoaxes-lead-arrests-across-country-n657956 (North Platte) http://www.nptelegraph.com/news/local_news/creepy-clown-sightings-likely-just-funny-business/article_d3fc5d00-8852-11e6-ad4b-db4ccaeade7b.html (Grand Island) http://www.nbcneb.com/content/news/GI-police-cite-three-teenagers-who-posed-as-clowns-for-terroristic-threats-395716271.html (Greeley, CO) http://www.greeleytribune.com/news/local/24110691-113/greeley-police-investigate-clown-threats-targeting-schools Quote Link to comment
NUance Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 LOL. Is this real life? Quote Link to comment
GM_Tood Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 http://www.ketv.com/news/police-omaha-public-schools-investigating-clown-threats-on-social-media/41943948 Quote Link to comment
Scratchtown Posted October 4, 2016 Author Share Posted October 4, 2016 Lincoln just had an incident or sighting last night at a city park. Quote Link to comment
JJ Husker Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 I don't know about the other locations but in Greeley, CO they traced it back to social media rumors. There were no actual clown sightings. Lots of kids stayed home from school last Thursday because of the threat rumors. Police traced it back to a 15 year old girl from one of the local high schools. She got kicked out of school and is in big legal trouble. Quote Link to comment
ScottyIce Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 Whatever happened to staying at home and just making prank phone calls for entertainment? EDIT: NOT PRANK PHONE CALLS TO THREATEN PEOPLE in reference to the above information. 1 Quote Link to comment
knapplc Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 You have to be a special kind of stupid to put on a clown costume and try to harass people. It's the kind of thing that sounds like a good idea to a certain subset of society, but the ones who act on it end up arrested, shot, or with their ass kicked. 1 Quote Link to comment
Count 'Bility Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 So what is the out of hand part? People, if any, actually dressing up like clowns and doing sh#t, or anyone and everyone that sees any sort of slightly (very slightly) suspicious anything anywhere assuming its a clown about to shoot up the world? Quote Link to comment
BIGREDIOWAN Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 Whatever happened to staying at home and just making prank phone calls for entertainment? EDIT: NOT PRANK PHONE CALLS TO THREATEN PEOPLE in reference to the above information. It's was all fun and games until they invented caller ID, that screwed up everything! "Is your fridge running? You better go an catch it!" *click* (ring ring) "Oh, s&^t! Mom is gonna be pissed!" Quote Link to comment
Landlord Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 I feel like reddit or 4chan are to blame for this Quote Link to comment
Cina Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 I didn't really care about this when it was happening in other cities, but two or three students in our rural area saw clowns along county roads last night. Someone's going to end up shot by a farmer. Quote Link to comment
GM_Tood Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 Two kids from my daughters HS got suspended today for putting clown pics on social media. (crappy photoshop job with clown by/in the school) Quote Link to comment
Red Dead Redemption Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 Two kids from my daughters HS got suspended today for putting clown pics on social media. (crappy photoshop job with clown by/in the school) Are you f'ing kidding me? They got suspended for that? Quote Link to comment
teachercd Posted October 5, 2016 Share Posted October 5, 2016 You sure they weren't just watching the Presidential debates! ZING! Quote Link to comment
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