Scary clown' craze prompts UK police warning to fancy dress shops

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/oct/12/killer-clown-craze-prompts-uk-police-warning-to-fancy-dress-shops This article is about the recent and bizarre incident that started in specific American states that spread to other countries in the west like the UK. The clown craze that has people dressing up in Clown costumes and scaring people and even hurting the, this has even caused Police to start telling Dressing up shops to stop selling Clown costumes to the public, with some shops getting a slight increase in clown costume sales. The article also lists some other incredibly unusual incidents such as a man dressing up as batman and delivering vigilante justice to the Clowns causing trouble. Police are taking this as a very serious matter and are persecuting people running around in clown costumes. In my opinion this news story has been incredibly blown out of proportion and its not that much of a crisis that the news and media are making it out to be. My only exposure to these incidents have been both the media and painfully obvious fake videos on social medias like Twitter. The media and news outlets may be so obsessed with making this into a big deal may be to sell papers and make money because any 'crisis' or 'craze' would attract people. This incident may also be connected to dominant ideology as part of that ideology are middle aged people, the clown incident could be connected to young adults causing terror to the older people, as there is a stereotype on younger people from older people being delinquents and rebelious.