Depending on who you ask, right now is either a great time to be a clown or the worst time ever. With a seemingly terrifying reboot of Stephen King's classic It on the horizon, the number of creepy-ass clown spottings across the nation has risen to ridiculous numbers. However, at least one of the alleged clown sightings has now been proven to be utter bullshit. Shocker.
An imaginative North Carolina man was arrested Friday after totally making up a story about someone in a scary clown costume knocking on his window, Reutersreported. David Wayne Armstrong, 24, initially told Winston-Salem cops he had chased a clown through the woods after said clown gave his window a friendly knock. But that never actually happened, police quickly discovered.
Armstrong was promptly arrested and charged with filing a false police report. Additionally, Winston-Salem police announced Friday that they have still not found any evidence to back up claims earlier this week of a similarly disturbing clown said to be luring kids into woods to offer them unnamed treats.
But what about all those real clowns out there? The increase in clown terror in both North Carolina and South Carolina is, predictably enough, making the daily life of non-creepy clowns kind of a chore. "I wonder how the reporting on the story would go if instead of clowns, people were dressing up as aliens, witches, zombies or doctors?" Mike Becvar, a "professional clown" known to his fans as Sir Toony Van Dukes, told the New York Times Wednesday. "What if they were wearing hospital scrubs, lab coats, and a stethoscope around their neck. Would the news report that doctors were hiding in the woods trying to lure kids with candy?"
Well, yeah. The news would definitely do something like that.
