Pennywise in Portsmouth

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PostPennywise in Portsmouth
by Gandalf » Tue Oct 21, 2014 10:17 am


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PostRe: Pennywise in Portsmouth
by Spindash » Tue Oct 21, 2014 10:29 am

DML was not taking Southampton's good form particularly well

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PostRe: Pennywise in Portsmouth
by Mini E » Tue Oct 21, 2014 10:29 am

Wasn't there a similar one in Cambridge or somewhere similar last year? Some people have too much time on their hands.

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PostRe: Pennywise in Portsmouth
by Moggy » Tue Oct 21, 2014 10:31 am

A student at Portsmouth University told ITV News the clown tried to scare her as she walked through the city last week.
It is also claimed he entered a clothing store to scare shop assistants.
"He will not be welcome if he comes back again," worker Karen Wilcock said.


But residents have been assured that the mystery clown is in fact a "harmless" schoolboy.
Andrea Hutchinson, manageress of Preloved Portsmouth, told Portsmouth News that the teenager is a regular customer in her shop and just likes to do "tricks".
"He is harmless. I can understand people being frightened though. But he’s just a kid," she said.


:lol:

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PostRe: Pennywise in Portsmouth
by DML » Tue Oct 21, 2014 10:45 am

[iup=3595018]Spindash[/iup] wrote:DML was not taking Southampton's good form particularly well


Hey I've been up your way in Manchester!

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PostRe: Pennywise in Portsmouth
by Memento Mori » Tue Oct 21, 2014 10:46 am

The Northampton clown is terrifying:

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PostRe: Pennywise in Portsmouth
by Mini E » Tue Oct 21, 2014 10:55 am

That's the one - Northampton, not Cambridge :shifty:

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PostRe: Pennywise in Portsmouth
by Gandalf » Tue Oct 21, 2014 11:03 am

Bloody hell! Imagine walking down the street in that first picture and seeing that in the dark!!! :dread:

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PostRe: Pennywise in Portsmouth
by Gandalf » Tue Oct 21, 2014 11:04 am



:lol: :dread:

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PostRe: Pennywise in Portsmouth
by Ironhide » Tue Oct 21, 2014 3:33 pm

There was someone doing the same thing in Chesterfield.

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PostRe: Pennywise in Portsmouth
by coldspice » Tue Oct 21, 2014 8:35 pm

[iup=3595264]Ironhide[/iup] wrote:There was someone doing the same thing in Chesterfield.

Same in Mansfield. Probably the same guy.

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PostRe: Pennywise in Portsmouth
by Return_of_the_STAR » Tue Oct 21, 2014 10:03 pm

You wouldnt believe the amount of calls the police were getting last year when the northampton clown as about. Some of the calls though :fp: some very scared people out there.

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PostRe: Pennywise in Portsmouth
by jamcc » Wed Oct 22, 2014 8:11 am

Memento Mori wrote:The Northampton clown is terrifying:

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:-( :-(

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PostRe: Pennywise in Portsmouth
by Oh Teh Noes » Fri Oct 24, 2014 9:34 pm

I thought this was about the band.

Disappointed.

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PostRe: Pennywise in Portsmouth
by Memento Mori » Sun Oct 26, 2014 6:15 pm

Pennywise (not) in Paris:

A wave of panic sparked by evil clowns stalking French towns has spread to the south of France where police on Saturday night arrested 14 teenagers dressed as the pranksters, carrying pistols, knives and baseball bats.

A police source said the group of teens were arrested in the parking lot of a highschool in the port town of Agde, as several other complaints poured in over "armed clowns" in the region over the weekend.

In the Mediterranean city of Montpellier a man disguised as a clown was arrested after beating up a pedestrian with an iron bar, while three motorists in different towns complained about "scary clowns" threatening them.

The phenomenon of dressing up as an evil clown and terrifying passers-by -- a trend which has also been seen in the United States and Britain -- cropped up in the north of France in early October.

In the northern French town of Bethune, a fake clown last week received a six-month suspended jail term Monday for threatening passers-by while in full circus garb.

Using fake weapons these "clowns" have been "mostly spotted outside schools, but also on public roads, in bushes, in a square. Their targets are often young children or teenagers, but also adults," a police source in northern France told AFP.


Theories abound as to the origin of the trend in a country where American fear-fest Halloween has yet to take hold.

These include a challenge launched on social networks, a video published on YouTube showing a terrifying clown pranking people -- which has had some 31 million views -- or even a recent episode of popular series American Horror Story featuring Twisty the killer clown.
Anti-clown vigilantism

After a rumour a clown was stalking the eastern town of Mulhouse, five teenagers on Wednesday armed themselves with a baseball bat, a teargas canister, a hammer and a truncheon to mete out vigilante justice to the not-so-funny pranksters.

They were arrested and later released, but the incident prompted the national police to step in to quell the hysteria.

"Since mid-October, a rumour inspired by videos published on the internet, is worrying the population about the presence of threatening and aggressive clowns in France," the national police said in a statement this week.

The statement cautioned that "despite numerous reports made to police, there have been only a few sightings of people dressed as clowns having fun scaring passers-by."


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PostRe: Pennywise in Portsmouth
by Slayerx » Sun Oct 26, 2014 6:25 pm

[iup=3598275]Oh Teh Noes[/iup] wrote:I thought this was about the band.

Disappointed.


Same :evil:

I am seeing them support Rise Against next weekend though 8-)


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