A
bandit is on a rampage in the San Diego area, where a man has
robbed three
convenience stores this month.
The mask, shown in surveillance footage released by local
police, is a typical type of rubber "evil clown" mask
popular in costume stores.
Coincidentally,
these three strikes by the San Diego area clown robber have occurred
even as in Sacramento, another
individual was being tried for
a trio of break ins in January 2012 in which a similar evil clown
mask was used.
Meanwhile
in Sheridan, Indiana, a group of home invaders burglarized a house
around 3AM . One wore a clown mask, the other wore a devil mask, but
the ultimate headline focused on the former "Robber
wore clown mask in home invasion"
Police are still seeking another clown masked armed robber in Columbus, and Merseyside, UK authorities have no new leads on a suspect who robbed a currency exchange in full clown attire. In Winnipeg, Canada, however, the clown-masked, hostage-taking robber mentioned in our previous blog post, has turned himself in.
Police are still seeking another clown masked armed robber in Columbus, and Merseyside, UK authorities have no new leads on a suspect who robbed a currency exchange in full clown attire. In Winnipeg, Canada, however, the clown-masked, hostage-taking robber mentioned in our previous blog post, has turned himself in.
Use
of a clown mask to shield one's identity during a robbery`is nothing
new, with instances as far back as at least 1898, though there has
been a very definite uptick again
with the emergence of the Northampton Clown, and really since the
release of The Dark Knight. Joker, of course, the ingeniously
psychotic early evil clown brain child of Bob Kane and Jerry
Robinson, excelled at the art of the heist. His garish greasepaint
and painted gleeful grin has always seemed to strike some disabling
combination of fear and dangerous underestimation into his victims.
In other
news...
Elsewhere
in the world of dubious fringe clowning, said Northampton Clown, that
brief but significant viral sensation on which this blog has
offered much
analysis,
has been hacked, and his Facebook has
been in a downward spiral of
lost fans since it began posting porn links a couple of weeks ago...
...and
in Florida, where such a large percentage of clown controversy and
nefarity is generated like a regional export, the city council in
Fort Meyers had
some heated debate over
whether to allow Insane Clown Posse to perform at an upcoming
horrorfest of some kind this October...
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