We normally see clowns very scarcely. They perform at children's birthday parties and at circuses. They will perform tricks, make balloon animals, throw pies in each other's faces and do funny things to make people laugh for a living because that's their job. This makes clowns seem very friendly but this was never the case for me.

As a young kid, my mom loved to watch horror movies and one of them was called "IT". It was a movie about a group of kids who tormented by an evil demon who can basically turn into a clown known as "Pennywise" or "IT" and survive by feeding off of children's fears and kill them. This clown wakes up every 30 years to feed upon children. Then 30 years later, the group of kids, now adults, defeat "IT" the clown ridding the world of him forever. Every since I watched that movie, clowns were ruined for me. Every time I would see a clown, I would run away screaming. Someone even had the nerve to dress like "IT" one Halloween. Not cool. Not cool at all. I had nightmares all the time to thinking that "IT" would find me or if I walked past a drain in the street I thought that clown would grab me and pull me through and kill me. I really thought IT was real and now these people dressing up like a demonic clown are making "IT" real. One person dressed like a clown already killed someone.

Recently, starting sometime last time someone decided it would be nice to dress up like a demonic clown and harass children. What person in there right mind would want to do something like that? Now that idiot has a whole gang of followers in his footsteps appearing across the states and harassing children and people. There are clowns who just wander around the woods trying to lure children, clown chasing children with chainsaws and knives. People dressed like clowns are appearing on Facebook and Twitter creating their own profiles to message children sending them threats about killing them or threatening to come to their schools. This is making a lot of children afraid and not wanting to go to school. Police are taking these sightings very very very seriously and warning people to not let their children wander off at night ( which they should not do anyway) and keep their doors locked because we also got some clown trying to kidnap kids from their homes. This clown situation is out of control and it needs to be stopped.