The son of a Premier League footballer is facing possible expulsion from school after allegedly making clown-based threats to other pupils.
Feel free to read that again, if you need to. This is 2016. Britain is leaving the European Union despite it potentially costing £66bn per year, Donald Trump could become the 45th President of the United States of America and now clowns have come to terrify us all even further.
The fad started, as they so often do, over in the States as apparently everyone decided that 2016 was far too normal and decided to start creeping everyone out by dressing up as killer clowns and trying to scare people in what we can only assume is some form of pre-mature viral marketing campaign ahead of the release of an adaptation of Stephen King’s novel ‘It’ next year.
GOD: They scared enough?
ANGEL: Not yet
GOD: You got Trump running?
ANGEL: Yup
GOD: Hurricane?
ANGEL: Yup
GOD: Ok, send in the clowns.
— Reverend Scott (@Reverend_Scott) October 8, 2016
Now it has spread over to the UK, and a Premier League player’s son has apparently been caught up in it all and is risking being kicked out of his posh private school for his involvement in one such clown prank.
The footballer’s son is said to be the ringleader of a group who made threatening posts on social media, identifying schools in the area as possible targets for attacks. The youngster has since been suspended from school, and faces expulsion after racking up a series of missteps.
A source told The Sun: “He was suspended when it all came out but it looks like he may end up getting expelled as it’s not the first time he’s been in trouble.”
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