The great evil clown panic in the United States has been debunked as viral hoax, but that hasn’t stopped copycats in other countries from riding on the bandwagon. Or the creepy clown car, if you will.
Singaporean vlogger Joel Wong is one of them. Wanting to take part in the Halloween spirit by emulating the dozens of Killer Clown pranks floating around YouTube, Wong decided it’d be funny to scare people by wearing a bloodied-up clown costume. He published the prank video yesterday, despite the police telling him not to upload anything (and despite his pranks being not very effective at all).
In a behind-the-scenes video, you can see the cops called in to stop all that nonsense. “To be honest, the overall reactions we got for the prank was pretty boring,” Wong wrote about all the unimpressed victims. “I over-dramatized it in a way by cutting the bad reactions.”
Welp, it’s too late for Wong to do anything else now. Aside from all the negative reactions he got from his misfired larks, he’s now facing an investigation by the police, who’ve classified the incident as a case of public nuisance. It shouldn’t come as a surprise — police have been cracking down on pranksters who’ve been uploading their frivolous antics on YouTube, like Merlion Tv’s red light district prank and The Purge prank.
