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  • Staten Island Clown: Creepy Prank After All?

    Outside of horror movies featuring homicidal killers in make-up or demonic clowns with razor sharp teeth, I confess I’ve found no real reason to be scared of clowns.

    I don’t get the humor much of the time, but real-life clowns always struck me as harmless.

    The tiny cars, throwing pies, big rubber shoes—All in good fun, right?

    Well, whoever is behind the idea of a clown wandering around Staten Island at night is making one heck of a case for “clowns are creepy, creepy people”.

    A few days ago, locals began sharing images of a mysterious clown wandering around Staten Island and handing out balloons. While some found it hilarious, others were just a little freaked out about it.

    The clown as seen in pictures:

    Yeah, that’s not absolutely terrifying or anything. Good God.

    Plenty of Staten Island residents have taken to the internet from beneath their beds to tweet about their rotten luck.

    Is this clown a serial killer waiting to strike or a good citizen trying to spread a bit of cheer and doing it completely wrong?

    In actuality, signs are pointing to the “Staten Island Clown” being nothing more than an elaborate hoax.

    The images shared on social media sites like Instagram and Twitter were exchanged by early on by four men: Vincent Innocente, Robert Privitera (who had actually given a statement to local newspaper Staten Island Advance about his “startling encounter”.), Michael Leavy, and comedian Vic Dibitetto.

    The New York Post reports that all of these men work for Fuzz on the Lens Productions. Innocente, Privitera, and Leavy are also apparently good friends outside of work.

    Despite evidence irrefutably linking the men to each other and to the Staten Island Clown, Michael Leavy is not willing to own up to the likely prank. Others are playing dumb.

    It could be because it was meant to generate buzz centered around an upcoming project. If that’s the case, why not just own up to the prank? Horror pranks are all the rage these days when it comes to promoting movies.

    Now that the folks over at Staten Island know it’s likely not for real, they all can have a good laugh about it.

    Except everyone that’s terrified of clowns, but who cares about those big babies?

    Image via YouTube

  • Staten Island Clown Freaks Locals Out

    Staten Island Clown Freaks Locals Out

    For the past several days, social media has been abuzz with rumors and pics about some creepy clown who is popping up around Staten Island, New York.

    The clown has been seen standing along roadsides and sidewalks at night, handing out balloons, waving at cars. But this isn’t some cheery-looking Bozo of a fellow. This is a John Wayne Gacy, flashbacks to Pennywise from Stephen King’s IT kind of clown.

    There are all flavors of clown suits, from your circus clown to the Ronald McDonald variety. This one has a clown-white face-paint job, bald head, red nose, yellow clown suit, white puffy collar, and is seen with green and yellow balloons, which he appears to give out.

    SILive reports that there are several theories about who this clown — or even clowns — might be.

    Then The Blaze ran an article titled “We Think We Know Why There Is a Creepy Clown Walking Around Staten Island”. Their theory was that the appearances are part of a publicity stunt by Fuzz On the Lens, an area company making a horror movie. Perhaps the producers were going for some sort of viral takeoff for their project.

    Their evidence for this assumption is that three of the men who had posted on social media about the clown were all associated with the same film company. However, the producers have since denied that the stunt has anything to do with them, though they say they are happy to take credit for something that is causing such a buzz.

    Meanwhile, since the “investigation” stated, the clown has made more appearances. The most recent appears to have been at a train station, where he is seen reclining nonchalantly on a bench.

    The mystery rolls on, but this one will be fun to watch.

    Image via Instagram