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This Evil Birthday Clown Will Frighten Your Kids

By on May 10, 2013 in Ideas

Don’t hire this clown if your children have coulrophobia (the irrational fear of clowns):

Dominic Deville stalks young victims for a week, sending chilling texts, making prank phone calls and setting traps in letterboxes.

He posts notes warning children they are being watched, telling them they will be attacked.

But Deville is not an escaped lunatic or some demonic monster.

He is a birthday treat, hired by mum and dad, and the ‘attack’ involves being splatted in the face with a cake.

‘The child feels more and more that it is being pursued,’ said Deville.

‘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.’

If the boy or girl manages to avoid the ‘hit’, they are given the cake as a birthday present. Well, that’s alright then.

The frightening fun can be stopped at any time, which is handy for parents who have second thoughts and don’t fancy the cost of child therapy.

The Evil Birthday Clown’s website is here.

Just in case you frighten easily, I’ve included the photo after the jump and not before.

Evil Birthday Clown

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Business Opportunities Weblog editor and publisher Dane Carlson lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, just 15 miles from Yosemite National Park. He accidentally became a professional blogger in 2001. He has added 12,203 posts to the site.

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  • C.K.

    This story is wrong. If you visit the website and email Dominic, you will see. First of all, the “service” was only offered for one summer in 2010. Only 10 clients were every hired. And all of the “victims” were adults over the age of 18–Dominic never accepted gigs involving children. I realize other reporters also got this wrong, but that is no excuse for sloppy reporting.

  • http://www.business-opportunities.biz Dane Carlson

    CK, Thanks for the update. Although Dominic might have only offered this “service” for a short period of time, there’s still a valid business idea in this story, even if he’s participation in it was exaggerated.

  • http://www.homefitnesstribe.com Dan

    Who the heck would do that to their kids? lol

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