Why I am a 'killer clown'

[cronus]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37612735

Why I am a 'killer clown'

You're on your way home. It's dark. Out of the corner of your eye you see a figure lurking menacingly. As your eyes adjust to the gloom, the figure eases into focus - it's a clown.
Clown sightings have become an increasingly common occurrence in the US, Australia and Canada. And, fuelled by social media, they are now on the rise in the UK too.
Thames Valley Police responded to 14 separate clown-related incidents on Sunday, while in Norwich, a man was arrested after an incident in which someone dressed as a clown terrified a woman in a park.
In Durham, four children were followed to school by a clown armed with a knife.

But what motivates someone to put on a clown mask and terrify strangers?

Matteo Moroni, 29, from Perugia, Italy, is the owner and director of YouTube channel DM Pranks. He's been terrifying unsuspecting passers-by for three years in a series of frightening videos that have racked up hundreds of millions of views on the video-sharing website.

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[pErvinalia]

"But what motivates someone to put on a clown mask and terrify strangers?"

Being a fucking loser.

[JimC]

If you did nothing overt except being dressed in a certain way and standing quietly in public (no knife etc.) what on Earth could you be charged with, no matter how macabre your costume?