{"id":281999,"date":"2016-09-23T14:49:36","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T18:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=281999"},"modified":"2020-11-03T14:56:10","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T19:56:10","slug":"lurking-clown-arrested-in-kentucky-woods-near-apartments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/lurking-clown-arrested-in-kentucky-woods-near-apartments\/","title":{"rendered":"Lurking clown arrested in Kentucky woods near apartments"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
When dressing up as a clown becomes illegal, you can really see how individual freedom is truly dead. All freedom lovers should protest in the streets dressed as a clown! A 1 million clown march would be great!<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

 <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Jonathan Martin, 20, was charged with wearing a mask in a public place and disorderly conduct in Middlesboro.<\/p>\n

He was found at about 0100 EST (0600 GMT) on Friday in “full clown costume” and mask crouching among trees by an apartment complex, according to police.<\/p>\n

Recent reports of clowns trying to lure children into woods have sparked alarm.<\/p>\n

Police have warned individuals against dressing up in clown costumes, adding it could lead to criminal charges.<\/p>\n

“Dressing as a clown and driving, walking or standing in public can create a dangerous situation for you and others,” police in nearby Barbourville, Kentucky,\u00a0said in a statement online.<\/p>\n

“While dressing up is not, in and of itself against the law, doing so in public and thereby creating an unnecessary sense of alarm is illegal.”<\/p>\n

Why are clowns scary?<\/p>\n

Alleged clown encounters have been reported in recent weeks in North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia and Kentucky.<\/p>\n

But the recent wave of creepy clown sightings has also led to a string of false reports to both police and on social media.<\/p>\n

Police in Annapolis, Maryland,\u00a0recently found reports\u00a0of students being scared by clowns on the way to school to be untrue.<\/p>\n

A 24-year-old man was charged with making false reports in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, after he told police a clown knocked on his window.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, an\u00a011-year-old girl was arrested\u00a0in Athens, Georgia, for bringing a knife to school because she was scared by social media reports that clowns were attacking children.<\/p>\n

Mr Martin’s arrest comes as Kentucky residents have reported sightings of a clown matching the description of his costume.<\/p>\n

A photo posted on Facebook on Wednesday showed a clown in Waco, Kentucky, dressed in a similar black-and-white costume.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-37455073<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: When dressing up as a clown becomes illegal, you can really see how individual freedom is truly dead. All freedom lovers should protest in the streets dressed as a clown! A 1 million clown march would be great!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":282001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}