2 arrests, some schools closed amid Ohio clown threats

[NaturalHigh]

CINCINNATI -- Two people were arrested and some Ohio schools were closed Friday amid a rash of reported threats against students involving clowns.

In a Facebook post, Reading Community City Schools said it takes all threats seriously, and said administrators were especially concerned with the number of students who walk to school in the early morning hours.

A reported early Friday attack on a woman in Reading, Ohio, by a person dressed as a clown prompted Reading Community City School District officials to cancel classes for the day. A woman told Reading police she was smoking a cigarette on her porch when someone wearing a clown costume appeared and grabbed her by the throat. The person told her, “I should just kill you now” and “Some students and teachers would wish they were never born at the Jr. and Sr. High School today,” police said.

The district said it would supply extra security for a homecoming parade and football game Friday night. A school dance scheduled for Saturday is to go on as planned.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/2-arrests-some-schools-closed-amid-ohio-clown-threats/ar-BBwQF3x

[Warren DeMontague]

1. Truly, the perfect song for the era that has thrown up Trump onto the national political stage

PT Barnum said it so long ago
There's one born every minute, don't you know
Some make us laugh, some make us cry
These clowns only gonna make you die

Everybody's running when the circus comes into their towns
Everyone is running from the likes of the killer klowns
from outer space
killer klowns from outer space
jocko !

Ringmaster shouts let the show begin
Send in the klowns, then let them do you in
See a rubber nose on a painted face
Bringing genocide to the human race

It's time to take a ride on the nightmare merry-go-round
You'll be dead on arrival from the likes of the killer klowns
from outer space
killer klowns from outer space

Theres cotton candy in their hands
Says a polka-dotted man with a stalk of jacaranda
They're all diabolical bozos

Oh look around what do you see
tell me what's become of humanity
from California shores to New York Times Square
Barnum and Bailey everywhere

If you've ever wondered why the population's going down
blame it on the plunder from the likes of the killer klowns
from outer space
killer klowns from outer space

[steve2470]

2. I never dreamed, in the year 2016, I'd be reading this headline

God I feel old