{"id":10209,"date":"2019-10-07T17:12:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T00:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10209"},"modified":"2019-11-03T17:18:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T00:18:37","slug":"wrinkles-the-clown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/10\/07\/wrinkles-the-clown\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrinkles The Clown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/wrinkles-the-clown-the-real-life-clown-scarier-than-joker-that-terrorized-americas-kids\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from The Daily Beast (opens in a new tab)\">from The Daily Beast<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/author\/nick-schager\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Nick Schager<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.thedailybeast.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,d_placeholder_euli9k,h_1687,w_3000,x_0,y_0\/dpr_1.5\/c_limit,w_3000\/fl_lossy,q_auto\/v1570153244\/191002-schager-clown-movie-tease_sivmpl\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>s your child misbehaving? Well, if you\u2019re a demented mother and father interested in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/the-wildly-irresponsible-media-coverage-of-joaquin-phoenixs-joker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">traumatizing your little one for years to come<\/a>, you can follow in the footsteps of a shocking number of other American parents and dial 407-734-0254\u2014the phone number for Wrinkles the Clown, a Naples, Florida, creep who, for a small cash fee, will lurk around your kid until they get the message and straighten themselves out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is both not a joke and a hilarious gag, as detailed by\u00a0<em>Wrinkles the Clown<\/em>\u00a0(in theaters Oct. 4). Michael Beach Nichols\u2019 simultaneously spooky and amusing documentary concerns the notorious circus weirdo, who became an internet sensation in 2015\u2014and inspired a rash of nationwide copycat dangerous-clown sightings in 2016\u2014thanks to a series of online videos (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n-pHcveHILw\" target=\"_blank\">beginning with this one<\/a>) and stickers featuring his name, face and phone number that he posted around his hometown. In an age of viral horror fads (Slenderman, Momo, etc.), Wrinkles, bolstered by local news coverage and, then,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2015\/11\/03\/this-creepy-65-year-old-clown-will-terrify-your-misbehaving-kid-for-cash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">a 2015 story<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<em>The<\/em>\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>, was a standout star, not least because you could actually call him and either leave a voicemail or, if you were lucky, chat with the gruff, curt clown himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/wrinkles-the-clown-the-real-life-clown-scarier-than-joker-that-terrorized-americas-kids\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at TDB (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at TDB<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Daily Beast by Nick Schager s your child misbehaving? Well, if you\u2019re a demented mother and father interested in\u00a0traumatizing your little one for years to come, you can follow in the footsteps of a shocking number of other American parents and dial 407-734-0254\u2014the phone number for Wrinkles the Clown, a Naples, Florida, creep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}