Stephen King comes to the Rescue of Creepy Clowns

America is currently in the clutches of clown hysteria with almost every state reporting sightings of the creepy entertainers popping up all over the place.

From the first sighting which was reported late in August in Greenville County, S.C with claims that creepy clowns were offering children money to lure them into the woods or would just appear out of nowhere and stand still, impassive, unresponsive and generally scaring the locals to death by just being well, creepy.

Suddenly there were creepy clowns popping up all over the place with sightings of clowns in Alabama, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina and Pennsylvania; as fast as the police responded to one sighting and another half a dozen would be reported elsewhere making it all but impossible for the police to keep up.

Almost overnight clowns went from being adorable children’s party entertainers to being something to be feared and hated. Clowns were being arrested, they were being beaten up and in one instance a clown has even been linked to a death.

It has become such a tense atmosphere around clowns that the Ali Ghan Shriners Club’s clown unit in Maryland has had to withdraw from a parade planned for October in Hagerstown and everywhere regular children’s party and entertainer clowns are now living in fear of retaliatory attacks.

With tensions at an all time high cue the King of clowns, Stephen King to be specific; the author of IT and creator of Pennywise the scariest clown ever to appear in literature and defender of all things clown to tell it like it is and put everything into perspective.

In a tweet posted yesterday he called for calm from coulrophobics everywhere and for everyone to just stop with the hysterics.

So there you go, in less than 127 characters Stephen King has put into perspective the hysteria that has infiltrated the US in the last few months.  
Just a quick PostScript; Great Britain has been seeing random creepy clowns for the last few years; they seem harmless.