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The creepy-clown craze has unnerved professional clowns, who say the pranks and threats have harmed their image. “As to why we’re selling more clown masks this year than last, I could speculate, but frankly my opinion doesn’t matter,” Butler told the site. Sales of clown masks, especially “evil” or “scary” ones, have spiked 300 percent this year, Halloween Express operations manager Brad Butler told the Wrap. That has not stopped people from buying clown masks wherever they can. “It’s not worth the sale,” owner Dave Douglas told the newspaper. In Michigan, Crypt Keepers Halloween Emporium boxed up all of its less expensive clown costumes, lest customers get hurt – or try to hurt someone else – while wearing them, the Detroit News reported. The corporate retailer is not the first to hit the brakes on clown-mask sales this year because of the creepy-clown scare. He tweeted, “Hey, guys, time to cool the clown hysteria - most of em are good, cheer up the kiddies, make people laugh.” The madness reached such a height that renowned horror author Stephen King had to step in on Twitter and, of all things, try to soothe people’s fears. Although there is little evidence that clowns are stealing children or planning attacks, clowns (or at least clown images and paraphernalia) have been associated with a recent rash of mischief and violent threats.”
“What began as reports from concerned parents to police mutated into memes, pranks and, in some cases, felonious hoaxes. A clown, or someone dressed like one, was ‘trying to lure children in the woods,’ warned the property manager of Fleetwood Manor Apartments in Greenville. “South Carolina was creepy clown Ground Zero in August, when emergency calls from residents of Greenville County prompted deputies to search an apartment complex and the nearby forest for criminal clowns.
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