Trash Menace Gallery - Clownwatch

Trash Menace Gallery - Startling Detective

Clownwatch - France Stands Up to Clowns

Fake clown attacks put French police on alert and trigger vigilante response

Clowny, You're Magic

Clownwatch - Staten Island

http://observer.com/2014/03/this-horrifying-clown-is-haunting-staten-island/

Probably viral marketing for Subway or something.

Also, evidence based medicine at work - a study found that children are more scared than comforted by clown decorations in hospitals. 

"We found that clowns are universally disliked by children. Some found them quite frightening and unknowable."

 Children, believe me.  You don't want to know them.

Clownwatch: Man in clown makeup dangled child from railroad overpass

Police: Man in clown makeup dangled child from railroad overpass

Clownwatch

Clown sightings in Northampton

While these are likely a combination of pseudo-performance art and internet flash meme whatevers, they are reminiscent of a more sinister rash of clown attacks that plagued Chicago in the early 90s by Homey the Clown...



... in one of the least original urban myths.