Creepy Clowns Arrest Caught On Police Dashcam

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Two adults and a teenager are expected to be charged after scary clown incidents in the Fox Valley. Police say a Menasha couple is facing child neglect charges after they left their young child home alone while they took part in a clown prank. Just before 4 o’clock Friday morning, Menasha Police were called to the area of Appleton and Midway roads for a report of people wearing clown masks chasing after vehicles. Police found two men, 20 and 29 years old, dressed in clown costumes and a 26-year-old woman who’d been driving the men around. During the investigation, police learned the older man and the woman had a 4-year-old child, “and they had left this 4-year-old girl home alone while they decided to go out and do their clowning activities,” Police Chief Tim Styka said.

Police say the child was unattended for a few hours while the parents were cruising around. The couple was arrested and police are seeking charges of Child Neglect against the couple. “The child was actually placed outside of the home by Winnebago County Social Services,” Styka said. The 20-year-old man was not charged. Fox Valley Metro Police say a 14-year-old boy wearing a clown mask caused a disturbance at Kimberly’s Sunset Park late Sunday afternoon. Authorities say the teen was blocking a one-lane road in the park that a father and son were driving on. “Teenager gets out of the vehicle and says, ‘Can you move so we can drive through?’ At this point the clown presented what turned out to be a real knife and just held it in his hand — didn’t run after the car, didn’t display it like this, just held it,” Ed Slinde of Fox Valley Metro Police described.

Officers are asking the boy be charged with disorderly conduct with a deadly weapon. It was the second time police were called to Sunset Park on Sunday. Earlier, people called police to report a clown carrying what appears to be a sledgehammer through the park. He told police he was with friends playing a game of hide-and-seek and the sledgehammer was a plastic prop. While no one has been injured in any of these incidents, police are concerned these situations could escalate. “We’re very concerned with the public and for these people, that somebody is going to get hurt, and it needs to stop,” Slinde said.

“There’s been different posts and different things out there now where people are saying, ‘If a clown comes up to me now I’m going to,’ fill in the blank. And there’s been comments made by (concealed-carry) people saying, ‘I’m going to draw down on them,'” Styka said. So before anyone gets hurt, police want people to realize these clown games aren’t funny and to put them to rest. “This is kind of one of those internet sensations that’s really taking on a life of its own and people are just really starting to make some really poor and dumb decisions to participate in some of these activities,” Styka said.

[rattoota]

Imagine growing up and finding out this is how your parents lost custody of you

[godomino]

Thank you YouTube for reminding me this was a thing

[panosleousis]

Police officer: Keep your hands where i can see them
Clowns: T-PoSe

[comedyrussia]

“and they had left this 4-year-old girl home alone while they decided to go out and do their clowning activities, ” clowning activities LMAO

[namelessnick]

cop: "what do u think u guys are doing here tonight?"
clown: "oh u know, just clowning around."

[whatmeworry]

Love to think that if one of them searched their pockets, he pulls out one of those long handkerchief chains that just keeps going.

[supremereader]

Cop missed golden to say, “Hold it right there, Bozo!”

[ashleylooksfab]

"they had left this 4-year-old girl home alone while they decided to go out and do their clowning activities" top notch parenting lmao

[philipajarapoo]

Remember when creepy clowns in our neighborhoods were the only thing we had to worry about? Good times.

[watertribeho]

lmfao i love how they're just standing there

[Hades-jcih]

Plot Twist: These are actual clowns in a clown suit

[dankengine]

I love how they were told to keep their hands visible but they still wanted to act creepy lmao

[Anthony-dfbs]

i like how the cop didn't give two shits about the "creepy" clown gimmick.

[xxxgameadrian]

YouTube: let’s put this on everyone’s recommended 3 years later

[qualityplays]

0:25 love how the 2nd clown copied his partner 😂

[therealJayRoe]

When nobody cares about you, but you desperately want people to notice you.

[fmbane]

They stood there like “yeah, we fucked up”

[LamarERS]

Ahhh i remember when the whole “Clown” thing was a trend. Now it’s just a great memory that YouTube will forever recommend to us.

[JFVoodoo]

I miss when this was the only thing to worry about tbh lmao bring me back to 2016

[Wreckitralph]

Can we have creepy clowns again and not rona, hurricanes, murder hornets, land hurricanes, ebola and a host of other issues this year. Please....