Fear Of Clowns
In professional terms it is called coulrophobia, an irrational fear of clowns. But is it irrational if you've had a bad encounter with a clown? Like maybe having one beat you up when you're a little boy?
As a child going to the circus, you might expect the clown to throw a bucket of confetti at you, or squirt you with water from the flower on his lapel.
You certainly wouldn't be prepared for him to grab you by the scruff of the neck, punch and kick you and leave you needing hospital treatment for cuts and bruises.
As these astonishing pictures show, that's what happened when 12-year-old Amos Lutz met Kaspar the Clown at a circus in Leipzig, Germany.
Amos's mistake seems to have been to hurl a carton of his own confetti at Kaspar - otherwise known as Bernd Kalster, 47 - as he strolled by. Clown Bernd Kalster, 47, punched and kicked helpless Amos Lutzer, 12, to the ground at Leipzig, Germany, then claimed it was self defence.
Kaspar clearly failed to see the funny side.
Not a very funny clown, is he? The picture show more than a bit of over reaction on the part of the clown.
World news | Gaius Tuesday, 20 February , 2007
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By Quilly Mammoth, Tuesday, 20 February , 2007 @ 5:44 pm
I’d never been fond of clowns and Stephen King’s It put the cap on it. Unfortunetly Mrs. QM used to clown and balloon and still does it occasionally. We have a rule that the make-up goes on at the job and comes off at the job.
By Gaius, Tuesday, 20 February , 2007 @ 6:50 pm
Coulda been worse. She could have been a mime.