It’s
hard to say which I hate or fear worse, clowns or Cartel kingpins. Clowns are
normally an existential threat. There is
a phobia for people like me, called Coulrophobia. Coulrophobia just caused a town in England to
remove circus posters after a complaint from a woman with coulrophobia. (See here) Some people find this ridiculous. Those
people didn’t grow up in Chicago around the time of John Wayne Gacy, the serial
killer who dressed as a clown and molested and killed small boys. (See Wikipedia page)
Then there’s this joker in England who stirred
emotions across the globe last month by dressing up as Pennywise, the terrifying
clown from Stephen King’s It, and
just staring at people. (Link to prior coverage)
There
are nice clowns, I’m sure. I don’t know
any.
Then
there are drug cartel kingpins who likely expect a violent death, and deserve
it. They poison our society. In the words of Steppenwolf, Goddamn the
pushin’ man. Drug lords likely expect death at the hands of rival gangs and the
authorities. They likely don’t expect
one at the hands of a clown, though.
Francisco
Rafael Arellano Felix, a former leader of the Tijuana Cartel, which was
prominent in the 1990s before it was weakened by a series of arrests and killing
of its leading members, was the oldest brother of the family-run cartel. He’d spent 15 years in prison (in Mexico and
the US) for drug-related offenses after his arrest in Mexico in 1993. He was set free and returned to Mexico in
2008 and was vacationing with his family in Los Cabos in Baja del Sur when a
clown, with two accomplices (unknown whether they were jugglers or
plainclothes) assassinated him.
It’s
unknown whether the clown was associated with another cartel, or was some sort
of vigilante justice. More details may emerge. Still, it’s another reason to fear
clowns. They generally appear friendly
and full of laughs, until they’re killers. I really am trying to be funny and
am failing. It’s my Coulrophobia. I’m
glad Arellano Felix is dead. I hope he
rots in hell. The thought of clown
hit-men, though, will give me worse nightmares than I’ve had in a long time.
Full coverage: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/gunman-clown-suit-kills-senior-mexican-drug-cartel-204217885.html
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