Clownmageddon......

[mushroom25]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-37605841

a bit of harmless fun, the "victims" of which seriously need to get a life?

or a genuinely frightening experience warranting the intervention of the authorities?

[andy-hughes]

Talbot - //I liked it. //

Did you mean the 'slippers' reference?

So did I!

[naomi24]

Idiots all! I detest practical jokes - especially those designed to frighten people. Nothing funny in that.

[Old_Geezer]

It's much more fun to go look in the windows of the old folks' home whilst wearing the hooded dressing gown and carrying the scythe.

[agchristie]

What will it be like on Red Nose Day?

:(

[jno]

OG, I find the fun goes out of it when the inhabitants start to point out that you're looking a lot older and sicklier than they are.

On the plus side, you can always use the scythe as a walking stick.

[dannyk13]

Was ukanonymous the model for one of these masks?

[dannyk13]

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1517392.html

[dunnitall]

Not by any nature is this craze funny or harmless. They are going out to frighten and intimidate people armed with what looks like weapons (how can you tell if fake or not from a distance?). Sooner or later someone will get seriously hurt or worse....I hope it is soon stopped and those caught threatened with arrest. This is certainly a good guise for the criminal element to get away with anything they want to IMO as if caught in the act can always maintain it was harmless 'fun'.

[andy-hughes]

Here is the case for the 'defence' -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37612735

[mushroom25]

they only do it to get hits on their youtube channel. oh well that's alright then - just like "happy slapping" is a bit of good natured fun.....

[Mamyalynne]

I love the fact he is unhappy that it is now out of control and everyone is on the bandwagon - not funny now is it?

[andy-hughes]

Mamya - //I love the fact he is unhappy that it is now out of control and everyone is on the bandwagon - not funny now is it? //

Indeed - but neither are his 'stunts' which consist of elaborate and frighteningly realistic enactments of murder and dismemberment, followed by chasing innocent witnesses.

[Mamyalynne]

I made it plain much earlier my views on this.

[Mamyalynne]

13:42 Mon 10th Oct 2016

Creepy and done to intimidate, nasty.