Halloween approacheth. Are we going to have another round of nonsense about clowns?

I don’t understand why people are scared of clown. I find them funny and ridiculous.

Not to dismiss anyone’s fear in any way though. No fear is wrong. I just don’t know what’s in the clown that scares people.

I suppose so many horror movies made about clowns, is what freaks them out Mimi. And last year, there were reports and videos from all over the world, of people dressing like clowns to get a rise out of people. In Texas, with the Good Ol’ Boy gun culture, that is paramount to suicidal. Gonna go shoot me a clown, probly some dang sochalist demoncrat out to git my guns. Take that, Bozo!

At least its a step up from when kids were prohibited (by grown ups, who probably loved Halloween when they were kids) to even participate in Halloween.

No last year there were some atrocious crimes committed by guys dressed as clowns. That’s what started it.

I hope not. I had enough with the release of the Stephen King thing.

Well. Given the timing of the new “It,” I would think there will be some Pennywise costumes. I will try to abstain from shooting them…

@josie: When were kids prohibited from participating in Hallowe’en? Beyond occasional families not doing it, I don’t recall a general prohibition, as your statement would imply.

Some religious people prohibit their kids from participating. It’s a family thing @canidmajor.

Yes, @Dutchess_III, but if you look at my post you’ll see I was not referring to them (that’s the “beyond occasional families” part), but to @josie‘s much more generalized statement.

I guess comprehension is in the eye of the reader @canidmajor.

I didn’t let my kids do Halloween for a couple of years for very stupid religious reasons. However, I also wanted them to have the kind of carefree Halloweens I had as a kid, running around town at night with all my friends. I could not let them do that where I lived in Wichita. Too dangerous. That left me with going to a mall, one year, and that REALLY sucked.
Our first year here in this small town we did Halloween. I didn’t have the $$ for official costumes, so I poked around the house and cobbled stuff together.. And turned them loose in the neighborhood!

We rarely get kids today any more. They have a thing down town where a lot of businesses are open. It centers around the fire station. The kids stand in a long line to get a few pieces of candy. Also, to the police department.
The houses on the main street that runs east and west get a lot of kids, though.
To me, it’s sad.

I would hate to be a child today, in our bizzaro world. Ain’t what it was in my day, fore shore.

In someways it’s better, in others not so much.

After we moved here I just cut the kids loose in the neighborhood. They just had to tell me where they were going, and knew there would be 6 kinds of hell if they weren’t where they said they would be.
They had to head home when the street lights are on.
I think my son and his wife are trying to raise their kids the same way.

Yeah, the clown thing is about the criminal activity.
We had some jokers around last year trying to scare each other, showing up in the parking lot of high schools not their own dressed as clowns.
It was in the wake of several clown attacks in various locations.
@Mimishu1995, have you seen Attack Of The Killer Clowns? It makes me laugh and laugh, but my daughter is creeped out by it.
If you haven’t seen it, I would suggest it for one of your group movie nights.

Can’t disagree with the idea that children must be accompanied by adults. The adults are there for a reason. As for the clowns during halloween, I don’t see what makes them look less repulsive-looking than other scary costumes worn by other people even though the fear of clown is scientific.