You can accuse the French of a
lot of things. Refusing to go for the gusto is not one of them. As readers of this blog know, so-called terror clowns have been in the news for a while now. What started in England as one joker dressing up as a
scary clown and scaring the mess out of his neighbors, moved to Staten Island, where
Brooklyn hipsters dressed up as scary clowns and stood around, taking pictures, posting
them to Twitter and causing a stir. The
Brooklyn clowns, when outed, said it was art. Supposed performance art moved to
California where a slew of clowns on the outskirts of the Inland Empire copied
them in their alleged performance art.
French performance-art, however,
is hard-core. Or the French are more hard-core than we normally give them
credit for.
It has just come out that on
Saturday, French police arrested fourteen teenagers dressed as “pranksters” who
were carrying pistols, knives and bats.
That’s hard-core. That’s also an
arresting.
Yahoo news, through AFP, reports that a group of teens were arrested
in the Mediterranian town of Agde in the parking lot of a high school,
apparently dressed as clowns and armed to the teeth. In the nearby city of
Montpellier, a man disguised as a clown as arrested after beating up a
pedestrian with an iron bar, while several motorists complained about different
clowns threatening them. This has been going
on in France since early October, and came to a head.
There are suggestions that a
challenge was issued via social media to dress like clowns and scare
people. The French clowns took this
seriously.
Now the population in France has
done what I had said would likely happen here, in Texas, if a terror-clown
showed up. The French have set up
vigilante justice, as five teenagers armed themselves with bats, tear gas, a
hammer and a truncheon to confront the clowns and met out justice. Strong.
Very strong reaction by the French.
Why Staten Island was not up to this with the Brooklyn-hipster clowns,
and why no one in England employed their national defense system of the
head-butt, is beyond me.
French police arrested, then let
go, the anti-clown hit squad, and the National Police have stepped in to quell
the hysteria. Not the laughing
kind. The coulrophobia kind. The rightly
deserved kind.
French terror clowns have been
warned. American ones should be too. The
French – seriously the French – have stepped into the void to stop the madness. Ronald McDonald ought not make any appearances in
Marseilles. Hopefully the scary-clown
jackassery has met its end.
No comments:
Post a Comment