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And if not, where’s the fine line?
If you ask me, hiring a horrendously creepy clown to follow your child around with threatening phone calls and surprise visits just about crosses the line into, well, scary, scar-your-child-for-life kind of stuff.
However, this service is real, and it’s considered a “birthday treat,” but I see no “treat” about it. If I emailed this story to my best friend (who’s twenty-six years old and still completely terrified of clowns), she wouldn’t sleep for a week, let alone let out a shriek of unadulterated joy at this type of “birthday surprise.”
The service is called “Dominic Deville’s Evil Clown” and can be hired by parents to stalk their children pre-birthday. The Evil Clown sends messages, chillingly calls children and sets traps for the kids during the week leading up to their big day. He also posts notes that the kids themselves will be, uh, attacked. The “attack” is actually a slapstick-type cake in the face on the child’s birthday, but the thought of an impending “attack” is probably more than your average school-aged child can bear.
In reality, it’s pretty funny. You know, if you’re one of those warped parents who think that scaring the crap out of your child (or other children) is funny. I kind of do … but in the same breath, I kind of don’t. But then I really consider it, and seeing the freaked-out look on some children’s faces, well … it makes this kind of stuff all worthwhile.
However, just looking inside myself, I have to say: if someone sent me this guy as a birthday present … it’d be a gift that just might have to go back.
Would you use this gimmick as a gag-gift for a (or your) child or do you think it’s too horrible to consider?
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Oh.my.god.
This is terrible! I can’t believe someone would even consider this as a good freaking idea! What the hell?
I’ve never understood why people think that scaring the living shit out of people is funny.
So over the line. I happen to HATE horror movies, haunted houses/hayrides/theme parks, creepy stories, and scary things in general. They freak me out.
Plus, there are a lot of people who have a phobia of clowns. I happen to know three of them. Do we really need to be giving MORE people an intense fear of clowns? I’m serious. That’s just sad.
My folks knew I was a Stephen King fan at an early age. One year on my birthday they put a bunch of balloons in the storm drain across the street from my bedroom window….
… I didn’t sleep for a month, but now it’s pretty funny….
LOL … Classic!
I guess all I have to say after that is, “Hiya, Georgie.”
Oh my GOD! Terrifying….ly hilarious! haha! You have awesome parents!
But that’s small enough to where the parents could just be like, “Oh, honey it was just us!” The calling and stalking of a child by a creepy clown is just effed up.
Oh hell, they didn’t admit it for at least 10 years. I talked myself into thinking I hallucinated it.
Still won’t go near storm drains though…
As a service for kids, this is awful. But for one of my horror movie loving, adult friends? Hells yeah. In fact, if someone did something like this for me I’d think it was awesome. They’re marketing it to the wrong people. Way wrong.
Exactly! I would do this to a guy friend of mine. But to a child? Definitely NOT! Even now, as a strong, 25 year old woman, this would scare me so bad I literally wouldn’t sleep for a week. No thank you. What type of parent would do this to a young child?
This is why so many adults are in therapy and hate their parents!
Guess what,for free you can send your kid to bible camp. There he’ll get to hear about Satan and his club house called hell,which he will probably be going,being he can’t take his eyes off of Becky Larsons perky new boobies.
Ah…I love you.
I’ll meet you by the softball diamond!
So apparently bible camp is a good place to lose your virginity…
Not as good as band camp….so I hear.
I met a piccolo player 46 years ago that still makes me smile!
Damn, my parents neglected me–they sent me to neither.
Haha, you’re so right.
A friend of mine had one of those scary overly religious up-bringings and it’s totally scarred him for life.
I can see this being awesome and funny for people ages 14 or so and up but deff not for younger children, unless you have one of those creepy really adult like children.
Seriously, that’s just MEAN. WHY would you do that to your children?
I’ve already mentioned that at the age of four, a friend’s older sister let us watch “Killer Clowns From Outer Space”–and that was bad enough. But this is WAY worse.
I don’t understand why this would be fun for any child.
“oh, Mr. Policeman. It’s okay. Yes, he’s stalking our child, but we paid him to do it.”
I think the odd jump out of a corner is part of most normal parenting and joking around, but it is definitely possible to cross a line.
So, let me get this right. You’re going to give some complete stranger all the pertinent information of your child’s life, school, hang outs, home address, phone #’s, etc. and then pay the complete stranger to stalk your child because it’s funny? Yeah, that sounds like a brilliant idea and should work out well… *shudders*
My thoughts exactly.
Why? Just… WHY would you ever think this was a good idea? I developed a life long hatred of clowns after my mum went a bit OTT with clown decorations in my bedroom (everything from the walls to the bedsheets was covered). It was well-meaning (I had previously quite liked clowns), but a misstep – one that could be easily rectified by taking away the clown stuff. If she paid one to actually stalk and threaten me, I would probably still be in the mental home.