Creepy Clowns Making The Rounds

Just in time for Halloween....is the appearance of Creepy Clowns all over the South, striking terror in the hearts of college kids far and wide.  Undoubtedly your local news has reported on these Clown Stalkers, but the question is....are they for real or just some hysterical urban legend making the rounds?  Well, turns out that I can now post photographic evidence that at least one of these Clowns is the real deal, and alive and well in Knoxville, TN.  Turns out my daughter called from her college dorm at UTK this week to tell me all about how the Clowns in the news stories are real.  Of course I tried to console her by saying that they were surely just Fraternity Pledges being forced to dress up and play copycat for laughs.  She said the clowns have shown up right down from her dorm in the court yard, and have chased people at night returning from parties.  She said they are not only haunting the campus, but have also been lurking around Downtown Knoxville.  She insisted that the police can't do anything about them if they aren't committing any crimes....to which I suggested that loitering on a college campus without student ID must surely be grounds to at least force them to leave.  


Then the very next day, she sent me the image below which was circulating in the local media and creating a buzz around campus.  It was taken at a parking garage right there in Downtown Knox near the school, and it was a Creepy Clown with the name Buckles on his belt.  She said that they've since learned that most of the 'Clown Clones' on the campus were indeed just young Frat Boy jokers. However the police did confront the Creepy Clown below who was stalking around a downtown parking garage late at night, and he turned out to be a strange 40+ year old man.  His intentions?  Still unknown. So what do you think...are these Creepy Clowns that are lurking around, just harmless pranksters....or are they the ill-intentioned stuff or your nightmares?