SNAKE CLOWNS!

[Rusty Edge]

Clowns with snakes does sound like creepy squared to me.

[Unorthodox]

WE HAVE A WINNER!!!!!  (what was the actual bet?) 

Clown kills person, confirmed. 

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/05/23/denver-police-death-investigation/

Denver police have arrested a man who was wearing clown makeup when he allegedly stabbed and slashed a 29-year-old man to death with a glove that had blades attached to the end of each finger.

Christian Lee Gulzow, 36, allegedly attacked the victim at 12:49 a.m. Tuesday following an argument near Torchy’s Tacos at West 11th Avenue and Broadway, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.

The Denver coroner’s office identified the victim as Brian Lucero, 29.  The cause of death was a stab wound, according to a coroner’s office news release.

Witnesses told police that the suspect, wearing white clown makeup accented with black streaks on the face, suddenly began threatening the victim with a glove with blades that were 2- to 3-inches long. They were near the Corner Store at West 10th Avenue and Broadway.

Gulzow began pummeling the victim, who tried to dodge the blows, the police report says. The victim eventually punched the suspect, who then yelled at the victim and followed him to Torchy’s. The two were the only ones in the restaurant parking lot.

“The victim collapsed in the north east parking lot of the Torchy’s business,” the report says.

Gulzow allegedly fled on a scooter, the police report says.

Police spotted a man on a Denver Public School’s HALO camera riding a scooter matching the suspect’s appearance in the 900 block of Galapago Street.

They saw the man throw an object in the bushes. Police went to the building and found a knife in the bushes, the police report says.


Police found the man at West Alameda Avenue and Lipan Street. His clothes were covered in blood, the report says.

When interviewed at police headquarters Gulzow said a man threatened him and yelled at him “to get out of my alley.” He claimed the victim attacked him and stole his scooter, the court records say.

Gulzow said he may have hurt the victim when he tackled the victim while he was riding away on Gulzow’s scooter. The victim may have fallen on one of Gulzow’s spiked wrist bracelets, Gulzow told police. The suspect also acknowledged that he may have cut the victim while he jabbed him with his “clawed glove.”

Gulzow’s account was different from those offered by witnesses, the report says.

Gulzow’s jail nickname is Diablo. He has an extensive criminal history with multiple domestic violence, assault and weapons convictions. In 2012, he was convicted of felony menacing with a deadly weapon, according to Colorado Bureau of Investigation records.

[Unorthodox]

Maybe not...

More news is saying he was in a death metal band...I'm guessing this is another one where any white makeup is a "Clown".  I wouldn't call KISS ish stuff clown makeup myself. 

[Unorthodox]

Update.

Clown or no?

[Unorthodox]

God, he hadn't identified a look...this one is more 'clown' to me.  No idea what he was wearing at the time. 

[Unorthodox]

Suspect sourcing on this one...

[Unorthodox]

still from a band video.

[Buster's Uncle]

I think I bet a clown would get hurt first.  It was €1,000, I believe.  Let me know when you're satisfied you won...

[Spacy]

I would say not clown.

The makeup isn't set up to accentuate the human features (bolded eyes,highlighted mouth), but instead to provide symbolism (bat symbol entering/exiting mouth).  Intent is different - first to characterize human physiology, second to provide a  story/symbol of one of Ozzy Osbourne's more memorable stage antics.   

[Unorthodox]

Another example of the news calling ANYTHING with makeup or a mask a clown, I'm afraid.

I saw one story claiming a clown robbed a place and it was a gorilla mask. 

[Buster's Uncle]

I wouldn't say this counts, but here...
Police Shoot People Dressed As The Joker And Harley Quinn

[Unorthodox]

I'd count it if he died. 

[Unorthodox]

http://www.christianpost.com/news/scary-clowns-return-to-pennsylvania-as-new-one-tries-to-lure-a-9-year-old-192192/

Another clown sighting has been reported in Pennsylvania, making it the first in a really long while.

According to WCMH-TV Columbus, a clown attempted to draw in a nine-year-old girl traveling around the neighborhood on her scooter with money.

Wilkes-Barre authorities explain that the incident, which took place around 10:10 in the morning, involved the clown appearing from behind the girl. He proceeded to give her either a $20 or $50 bill to get her to come with him.

The attempt was unsuccessful as the little girl instead ran screaming toward her grandmother's house. The clown, on the other hand, ran and disappeared into a railroad trestle nearby.

The police say the clown was thin and tall with his face and arms painted white. He had red hair that parted in the center and wore blue-and-red polka dot shirt and yellow pants.

It was back in March since the last clown sighting was reported in Pennsylvania. The incident involved a couple of armed men dressed as clowns and terrorized a group of children.

"My kid came running in the house screaming that there were two guys chasing him," Michael Milkowski, a father of three, told KDKA. He adds:

I said to my kids "are you lying or something" and they were like "no we're being really serious." I looked over and they showed me where they were and there's two guys running up a hillside.

Clown sightings, however, started summer of last year with the first one documented in South Carolina, where a group of creepy clowns tried to lure kids into the woods.

Since then, the cases of clown scares shot up and ultimately spread in different regions including parts of the United Kingdom. Majority of the sightings, however, occurred in the United States although many of the cases are pranks and imitations.

[Unorthodox]

Autocorrect arrest?

http://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/hamilton-county/cincinnati/clown-threat-lawsuit-boy-sues-school-district-over-his-arrest-during-last-falls-clown-scare

CINCINNATI -  A federal lawsuit alleges a 12-year-old was illegally arrested, improperly prosecuted and unfairly disciplined at Sycamore Junior High School over social media posts he made during the “crazy clown” craze last year.

In their suit, the boy’s parents say his Instagram comments made no direct threats, yet police unlawfully detained, searched and arrested him; school officials suspended and threatened to expel him in violation of district policy; and the county prosecutor continues to prosecute him under trumped-up charges in Hamilton County Juvenile Court.

The suit claims the school district and police conspired to make an example out of the boy by having him arrested him at school and leading him through the halls in handcuffs - against district policy - so other students could see and take it as a warning.

The suit challenges the constitutionality of the Ohio law under which the boy was later charged with communications harassment after the original charge - inducing panic - was dropped. The boy, now 13, denies the charges.

According to the lawsuit, the punishment against the boy started on Sept. 30, 2016 – the day after he made two posts on the Clown Clan Instagram account.

One post said: “DUMB F---- COME TO SYCAMORE YOU WONT”

The other said:  “I’ll square up to these stupid coons.” According to the lawsuit,  the boy intended to type “clowns” but mistyped the word and his phone autocorrected it to  “coons.”

The boy used his own phone and Instagram account and posted from his home after school hours, the suit points out. He deleted his posts two hours later.

At the time, reports of people dressing in scary clown masks and clown suits were causing alarm in the Tri-State and around the country. Social media posts that these “crazy clowns” were seen near schools or intended to be in the area caused some schools and police to send warnings to parents. In extreme cases, a few schools closed.

After Sycamore officials encountered a similar post from another older junior high student the morning after the boy’s posts, the district alerted parents and said they considered them hoaxes and believed they posed no danger to students or staff. Yet, they called Montgomery Police to investigate, and police arrested the older student and walked him out in handcuffs.

According to the suit, the 12-year-old boy was in class taking a test when he was summoned to the principal’s office. Assistant principal Damon Davis pulled him into his office and informed him that another student had told school officials about his posts. Davis had the boy write a statement, then left the room, leaving a teacher with the boy. When Davis returned, the assistant principal told the boy he had violated the school’s Harassment, Intimidation and  Bullying policy and had disrupted school and he was going to be suspended for 10 days with a recommendation for expulsion.

Davis then allowed Montgomery police Sgt. Gregory Harris interview the boy alone in his office. Harris searched the boy without a warrant or probable cause, failed to inform him of his Miranda rights and arrested him on a charge of inducing panic, the suit says.

The school tried to contact the boy’s parents, but failing to do so, took the boy aside alone anyway – against district policy, according to the lawsuit.

The suit claims police and school officials acted in concert against the boy. The boy’s father said he called Harris  that afternoon and Harris said the boy could have been processed at school and released to his parents, but Harris said the school district “wanted us to arrest them.”

Later, Sycamore Superintendent Frank Forsthoefel reduced the boy’s suspension to five days and held his expulsion in abeyance. That was because the boy had not violated the HIB policy or disrupted school, the suit says.

Five months after the incident, the boy filed a motion last February to dismiss the inducing panic charge. That led to new charges.

“Knowing that the criminal charge … should be dismissed, the Hamilton County Juvenile Prosecutor instructed Sgt. Harris to bring new charges ...  so that the case ... would continue. Thus, on April 12, 2017, Sgt. Harris signed three new complaints,” the suit says.

The new complaints, which accused the boy of harassing the operator of the Clown Clan Instagram account and causing public alarm through his Twitter feed are “patently false,” the suit claims.

But after dismissing the inducing panic charge on April 17, the prosecutor filed new three orally amended charges based on Harris’s claims, the suit says.

Those charges claim communications harassment,  but the suit claims the Ohio law cited in the charges violates the boy’s freedom of speech.

The suit seeks monetary and punitive damages and an injunction to prevent further prosecution.

A Sycamore Community Schools spokeswoman said Thursday the district had not seen the lawsuit and would not comment. Hamilton County Prosecutor's Office spokeswoman Julie Wilson said the prosecutor is reviewing the lawsuit.

While social media "threats" of clowns caused a stir in several Tri-State communities last fall, many police departments expressed the view that most of the "threats" were pranks played by copy cats.

In one case, police charged a woman they said made up a report that she was attacked by a clown with a knife because she was running late to her job at McDonald’s. Around the same time, reports of clown attacks forced schools in Reading to cancel classes.

An officer responded to Sharonville Elementary for a report of a "clown" wearing gloves and large shoes in a wooded area at the school, police said. Police later said they found no evidence to indicate anyone was doing anything menacing in or near the school, they said.

[Unorthodox]

https://mic.com/articles/182335/creepy-clown-sightings-are-back-heres-why-experts-say-theyre-so-scary#.Y0LTvVAAw

It’s enough to make Frank McAndrew, a Knox College professor of psychology and self-described “expert on creepiness,” suspect a connection to last year’s spate of clown sightings.

First of all No [poop] sherlock.  Second, I'll happily put my expertise against yours.