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Clown craze hits San Diego as French town bans costumes

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The Wasco Clown craze has finally come to San Diego with a series of creepy clown photos posed at places like Viejas Arena, Petco Park, Seaport Village and SDSU posted on Twitter.

The photos began appearing this week amid conflicting signs that the scary-clown copycat movement is both dying out and continuing to scare people to death since a man and his wife began posting clown photos taken across the San Joaquin Valley on Instagram for a yearlong photography project. Their Wasco Clown account scared up 55,000 followers and their photos were circulated worldwide until they deleted them all this month.

Now comes @WasoClown. (Yes, he dropped the "C" because someone else snapped up @WascoClown on Twitter.)

Is he a San Diego State student? Is he even a he? He hasn't said, but he's shared a handful of photos so far, and while he hasn't exactly caused a panic in San Diego, he's certainly creeped some people out. In one post, he wrote, "Where should I go? The cops are wondering too."

Meanwhile, the creepy clown photos that have put people on edge and cops on the lookout in a number of towns across California reached a crisis point in France, where the mayor of a small town has banned all clown costumes through November for anyone older than 13.

CTV News says the mayor's decree follows a series of assaults involving dressed-up teens earlier this month. It reports that the ban by Mayor Pierre Dudieuzere of Vendargues, France prohibits residents in the town of 6,000 from wearing clown masks, costumes or makeup.

'Where should I go? The cops are wondering too.'

In case you forgot, people are totally scared of the Wasco Clown.And this is how much the meme means in the town of Wasco.Frankly, we're surprised the craze took this long to reach San Diego. But finally on Sunday, there was this tweet.Then @WasoClown took over.Reaction? About what you'd expect. This tweet as the San Francisco Giants won their third World Series in five years set the conversation in a new direction. But the conversation didn't stay comic for long.After I shared this story, reactions poured in like trick-or-treaters on a popular street.
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