Three weeks after a sinister grinning clown began to stage photo ops on the streets of a metropolitan town in East Midlands, low level coulro-madness and the ensuing commercial cash-in continues to rage in the UK, and beyond.
Good to see everybody getting into the spirit. Or, is the spirit getting into you? #beepBeep #northamptonclown
— Northampton Clown (@NthHamptonClown) October 4, 2013
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UK bookies are now placing odds on what locations he will next be seen, and predicting his identity will be soon be revealed as the Pennywise impersonator seems to be in the process of T-shirting his way into kitsch mascot status.
Over in Ireland, however, some concerns have continued in the wake of the even more sinister looking copycat Carrickfergus Killer Clown. And while Boris the Clown Catcher has not been heard from since the day of NHClown's last daytime appearance near the National Lift Tower over a week ago, this copycat has already spawned his own vigilante pursuers, The Carrick Clown Killers, with a far more faux-militant (gosh I hope those are toy guns) bent Northampton's new blue superhero.
Meanwhile, in Harlow (UK), police released an image of what they called a "clown mask" used in knifepoint robbery during last week's wave of clown-masked crime, but is actually a balaclava version of the Guy Fawkes mask, made famous in V is For Vendetta (whose writer Alan Moore is coincidentally collaborating on a sinister clown project set in Northampton, and was early on pointed to as a possible Clown suspect).Across the pond in Pennsylvania, some 200 miles from where unsubstantiatable rumors of clowns abducting youth in vans ran rampant in 1981, a girl is now being accused with having made up a story of being abducted by a man in a clown mask driving a black SUV... perhaps inspired by the worldwide social media phenomenon surrounding this real life creepy clown?
And now a rumor just tonight has the #NorthamptonClown possibly sighted in a whole other county...
“@Tarahealy_: Ok so I've just been told Northampton clown has been seen in Bromham. I have been dreading this day”where?! When?!?!
— ◼️◻️ (@ElijahHukin) October 5, 2013
Whether NorthamptonClown(TM) is profiting or simply covering expenses and giving to charity as he claims, the commercialization of the Killer Clown is certainly nothing new. This progression has been growing in spurts since the late 70s and now you'd be hard pressed to find a costume shop at least in the U.S. that doesn't have at least one Evil Clown mask.
And if the hundreds of styles already available weren't enough to make this Halloween season uncomfortable for you coulrophobes out there, Slipknot member M. Shawn "Clown" Crahan has now taken some of the most unsettling aesthetics of the clown and basically combined them with the creepiest Cenobite from the Hellraiser movies. With all this hype and publicity around the world going into October snowballing from a cryptic clown, that just happened to start walking the streets on a September Friday the 13th when stores, theaters and TV markets throughout the world were starting to lay out some of their more seasonal Horror genre wares, sales of creepy clown crap may reach new records this Halloween season...
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