College Kid Photoshops Clown Picture For Facebook To Hop In On The Craze...Shuts Down Campus With Police and Helicopter Manhunt

M1K3YD33T – So I go to a small school, maybe 7,000 students total, the majority of them super white and well-off. The whole “creepy clown” thing has been going around, with facebook constantly lighting up with sightings. Fortunately, we had never been the subject of a sighting.

That is until tonight.

Some rumors start floating around of a clown sighting by our dorms and their parking garages. It’s probably bullshit, but hey, it’s fun to be a little scared and get caught up in the silliness. Thinking it was one big joke, I decided to Photoshop a “sighting.” In about six or seven minutes, I put together this image. It’s a shit shop, I know, but that was kinda the point, I wanted to play into the joke. I posted it on my school’s class Facebook page and thought nothing else would come of it.

Holy shit was I wrong. My roommate calls me about a half hour after I posted the image and says “Holy shit man, people are outside of the place where you posted that pic (he was in on the joke). They have golf clubs, and campus security is talking about bringing in Metro Police.

Fuck.

I immediately went on to my post on the Facebook page to discover that pretty much everyone thought it was a real picture. The full post is below, along with all of the comments. Security was telling everyone in the area to stay locked inside their dorms until we get the all-clear. As my roommate walked into the dorm, he said there were helicopters with searchlights looking for this clown. If they catch a clown they will either be arrested or expelled, depending on whether or not they’re a student.

Yeah, posting about it on reddit probably isn’t the best way to stay covert, but my name’s on my facebook account and it’s a pretty bad shop, so they’ll figure it out one way or another. I’m basically a fugitive now. Ladies.

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When trying to get involved with the latest social media trend goes wrong.

“It’s fun to be a little scared and get caught up in the silliness.” GTFO of my face with that.

Seriously I can’t remember the last time I was over an internet craze so quickly. Give me all the Planking and Tebowing and Harlem Shaking in the world before you give me more “crazy clown sightings” on college campuses.

Truer words never been spoken.

Time to rise up.