When clowns are just nice people
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Maybe there was a time when a guy could dress up like a clown and hand out candy to kids to celebrate his birthday, but those days are long gone.
A man in Clarksville, Tenn., is the latest to learn the lesson after he apparently caused a brief panic in his town when two fifth-graders reported him. They described him to school authorities: white face, red nose.
The police issued an alert that a clown might be trying to lure children with candy.
Then they caught the clown.
He was just being a nice guy, the police said.
"John Wayne Gacy was a nice guy, too," a commenter on the department's Facebook page said, indicative of the fact there are plenty of clowns in Clarksville, Tenn.
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