Norfolk Police Warn of Alarming Clown Epidemic

[Malthus]

Nice to know Monty Python wasn't creating fiction when it came to the Brits. 

A police force has told members of the public to ignore people dressed as clowns if they meet them in the street.

Norfolk police received a report from a member of the public alarmed by a clown sighting in Gaywood, near King's Lynn, on Tuesday evening.

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Superintendent Carl Edwards said no one had been injured or assaulted. He added that it seemed whoever was behind the makeup was probably trying to shock people and it was best not to give them the attention.

Officers would patrol areas where the reports had been made and, if they found any clowns, they would "offer them strong words of advice", he said. "Firstly I'd like to stress that it isn't against the law to dress up as a clown.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/28/norfolk-police-warn-alarm-clown-norfolk

[Iormlund]

Understandable. If they don't come down hard on those clowns they are going to be up to their balls in jugglers.

[sbr]

How do you kill a troupe of circus performers?

[spoiler]Go for the juggler[/spoiler]

[mongers]

There's been a clown epidemic in East Anglia for some time now, they usually go on to careers in the local police force. 

[Malthus]

A clown epidemic is worse than a zombie apocalypse. Clowns have bigger feet, can run faster, and an enormous number of them can squeeze into a tiny space.

[Syt]

Let's hope the clowns aren't laying any mime fields!

[Pedrito]

How do you kill a troupe of circus performers?

[spoiler]Go for the juggler[/spoiler]

L.

[Darth Wagtaros]

It is a posse of insane clowns? Or perhaps a kabal of killer klowns from, perhaps, outer space?

[jimmy olsen]

A clown epidemic is worse than a zombie apocalypse. Clowns have bigger feet, can run faster, and an enormous number of them can squeeze into a tiny space.

Tragically true.