Those creepy clowns
THE creepy clowns scare has spread to Germany and to Sweden, having started a few months ago in the US and since spread to the UK, Australia and New Zealand.
A clown attacked a youth with a baseball bat in the German city of Rostock, and a 15-year-old boy was threatened by a clown with a knife at a bus stop in the same city.
In nearby Greifswald, two children were frightened in separate incidents by three clowns, one with a chainsaw; a woman was also frightened by a clown with a chainsaw.
About a dozen other cases have been reported around Germany over the last week, according to the newspaper Bild.
In Sweden, a man was stabbed by an attacker dressed as a clown.
What’s behind this phenomenon of creepy clowns?
Instinctively one connected it initially with the SABC, but it’s become too widespread, too farflung.
The likelihood now is that these scary clowns are members of the mercidler@inl.co.za
Russian special forces, softening things up the way they did in the Crimea, Eastern Ukraine and at the European Cup football tournament, masquerading as football hooligans.
Vladimir Putin is pushing the envelope wherever he can. The West needs to respond.
If Hillary Clinton should win the presidential election, she should, as a gesture of contrition and magnanimity, send Donald Trump to Moscow as ambassador. That’ll give Putin creepy clowns – in spades!
If Trump wins – well, much the same.
Mrs SA
LAST week we had a group photograph of the finalists in the “Mrs South Africa” contest – a lineup of lovely ladies in swimming costumes and sunglasses. How long has such a contest been running?
Mrs South Africa – and not a feather duster among the lot of them.
Unbelievable
INVESTMENT analyst Dr James Greener laments in his latest grumpy newsletter the growing number of things that are impossible to believe.
“Much of the difficulty in trying to grasp it all lies in the illogicality of everything.
“How can the act of setting fire to a library be seen as a) nonviolent; and b) furthering the cause of education? How can making universities ungovernable be in the interest of poor or indeed any students?
“Is there just one cabinet minister with a real and properly earned, recognisable and appropriate qualification – even a matric?
“How can the president express complete faith in the man upon whom the same president has set his goons to destroy?
“Why is our power utility lending money to the president’s friends? “Is JZ ever in the country? “Is that reason for leaving the International Criminal Court really true?