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The terrifying clown US parents are using to scare kids into behaving - C C - Oct 8, 2019
https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/terrifying-clown-parents-using-scare-17050114
EXCERPT: US parents have hired out a clown to terrify their misbehaving kids. Wrinkles the Clown, who is now regarded as an urban legend, first appeared in Florida back in 2013. The creepy character is now the inspiration behind a new online documentary of the same name, after a series of viral videos on a YouTube page titled "HvUseen Wrinkles" came to surface in 2014.
[...] For a few hundred dollars, Wrinkles will apparently turn up to any social event, scare misbehaving kids or prank your friends. He will also stand menacingly outside someone's house whilst clutching a handful of balloons. ... In an interview with the Washington Post, Wrinkles remembered a time when he was hired by a mother to terrify her 12-year old son.
He said: "He was scared of clowns and I showed up across the street from him at the bus stop and he just started crying in front of his friends and ran home. His mother called back a few days later and said 'Thank you!' Now when he acts bad, she just has to ask him: 'Do you want Wrinkles to come back?'"
But, the clown does not see his work as a way to scare people, and simply sees it as a way to enjoy his retirement. (MORE)
RE: The terrifying clown US parents are using to scare kids into behaving - Magical Realist - Oct 10, 2019
Future candidates for PTSD..
RE: The terrifying clown US parents are using to scare kids into behaving - Secular Sanity - Oct 10, 2019
(Oct 10, 2019 08:38 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: Future candidates for PTSD..
Look what this guy did to this poor kid. It's all fun and games until someone loses an ear.
RE: The terrifying clown US parents are using to scare kids into behaving - Magical Realist - Oct 11, 2019
Looks like that kid took it well. I doubt if he is traumatized.