Stupid Inspiration From A Stephen King Book

I think the main idea in reading a Stephen King book is that you are supposed to read it, enjoy it and move on with life.  Right?  I mean, this isn't Scripture -- you don't need to live it out!  I state the obvious because it seems some people don't know that.

Now HERE is an interesting article about a clown that stalks children. . . based on IT.  I will withhold the many pages of commentary and simply say that any parent who is inspired by a Stephen King book to hire a clown to stalk their child, should be forced to spend their sick days with Annie Wilkes.

Evil cake-slinging clown offers to stalk your child
An “evil birthday clown” in Switzerland, for a fee, will threaten and stalk your child for the entire week leading up to their birthday, all while waiting for the perfect moment to attack them. 

The clown, Dominic Deville, will send frightening text messages, make prank calls and even booby-trap their letters, but the icing on the cake is the surprise attack – a cake in the kid’s face, reported Metro. 

Dominic Deville is capitalizing on what has become a mainstay for all circus-going kids: the fear of clowns, reported The Huffington Post. He also apparently is capitalizing on unusually cruel parents. 

“The child feels more and more that it is being pursued,” Deville told Metro. “The clown’s one and only aim is to smash a cake into the face of his victim, when they least expect it, during the course of seven days.” 

Mr Deville’s look appears based on the monster clown played by Tim Curry in the 1990 TV adaptation of the Stephen King novel It,” reported The Sun. 

In his text messages, phone calls and letters to his targets, Deville lets them know that their time is coming, according to the Herald Sun. 

Since the creepy prank is supposedly all done in fun, Mr Deville the evil clown does promise to back off if the parent’s ask him to, so the judgment call on how scarred the child should be is left up to already questionable judgment. 

“If at any point the kids get scared or their parents are concerned we stop right there,” he said. “But most kids absolutely love being scared senseless.”