Posted on 10/14/2016 5:56:57 AM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
The latest societal epidemic seems to be one of creepy vagabond clowns who seemingly get their jollies by walking around and terrifying people. Luckily for the county of Cumbria, they have their very own Dark Knight who's ready to defend them.
The BBC Cumbria Facebook page recently posted a few photos of their newest defender, who is part of the Cumbria Superheroes. Recent clown sightings had started to frighten the local children, and so the group enlisted Batman's help to keep the peace (via Joe.co.uk).
The post includes a photo of the costumed vigalante running down a clown, as well as a picture of one child's letter which was sent to Cumbria's protector after seeing him on social media.
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They want to get back to the way things were. But I know the truth. This man’s CHANGED things. Forever.
My kids elementary schools puts the children in time out if they talk about clowns.
Wonder how you clean clown splat off of a Batmobile?
The Batman vs a clown.
Why hasn’t anyone thought of this before?
So clowns have replaced zombies as the latest craze? I can’t keep up with this.
If you look at the costumes, it’s a merging of the two.
Comic-book crap is breaking news? Really?
But then I remembered it's hunting season.
Unless you want a visit from Krusty and Mr Jingles.
To think these morons will be voting.
I clicked the link and watched the stupid video expecting to see someone bum-rush a clown, or something like that.
All it was a stupid Comic-book ‘news’ ad!
What the eff is CB news, and why is it here?
Even the bytes in “Chat” page are to precious for comic book crap!
... for no good reason and you're perfectly right. Having said that, blowing off a little steam with some online silliness never did Freepers any harm. My mood and blood pressure's been like a roller coaster while following Trump's fortunes this week!
Edward Bernays would be very proud.
While I think this is proof that the world is getting stupider, I would still pay to see Batman beat the snot out of some clowns.
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