ORGANISERS of a British rock festival have been forced to change its circus theme after a number of ticket-holders told them they had a phobia of clowns.
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The Bestival event on the Isle of Wight, off England's south coast, in early September was to have encouraged festival-goers to dress up in curly red wigs and oversized shoes.

Last year's Cowboys or Indians theme broke a world record for the biggest fancy dress party when 10,000 people turned up in disguise.

But organisers feared thousands of clowns in one place could spark mass panic in the psychedelic atmosphere of the festival, which is popular with so-called "nouveaux hippies", The Times reported.

"We have had so many people with clown phobias contact us I am worried everyone might end up hiding in the woods," Rob da Bank, a BBC Radio One disc jockey who will "curate" the show, was quoted as saying.

Fear of clowns - or coulrophobia - has symptoms including shortness of breath, rapid breathing, irregular heartbeat, nausea, sweating and a sense of foreboding, The Times pointed out.

Heavy make-up and bulbous noses, plus negative childhood memories of the supposed funnymen and women, are thought to be the root cause


Too many drug's me thinks LOLOLOL

Can't sleep. Clown will eat me.

8-(

I hear cannibal's dont eat clowns cos they taste funny


LARF

Haha thats so lame.

I have a 'Cant sleep clowns will eat me' badge.

A friend in my fine arts course has coulrophobia, and has done some absolutely increadible and terrifying series.

But seriously, have more of a cry.

Thats all I got.

Oh go read Stephen Kings IT - will be perhaps the best book you ever read.

Friend of mine has a phobia of Clowns.. she has no explanation of it.

I used to be terrified of clowns when i was a kid. I remember up to this day the dream that i had about a toy clown suddenly starting to talk to me. What didn't help my fear of them was the fact that i had a toy clown somewhere in my big box of toys. I was so scared of it i told my mum to kill it so she ended up burning it on the kitchen stove.

Oh and that cookie monster from seasme street used to frighten the absolute bajeebus out of me :( I used to have nightmares of that blue prick constantly popping out of different places screaming "MMMMM COOKIES MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH" :(


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Heh jay and the doctor were talking about this, this morning. f***en some people are spinners.

I was scared of clowns when i was a kid =\. At this circus my olds took me to this clown liked popped up infront of me whilst laughing madly then jumped on this motorbike and careened off. :( I wasn't as fond of clowns after that.

http://www.zetaminor.com/images/dvd_review_images/scary_movie_2/scary_2_clown.jpg

I eat clowns for breakfast

No i am not scared of clowns.

except whoop

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http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/3567/106088ko.jpg

IT ftw

Im still scared of ET. I swear that little guy was in my cupboard every night just waiting to do evil, evil things.
My ex tried to make me watch it a few years ago I could have killed him.
Creepy little mo fo.

aww man, if I could only FTP from work...
Got some screenies the other day from "BOO" (movie made by producers of Dog Soldiers) which had a really cool evil clown in it. I'll try an remember to post em tonight

PS: said movie was B- quality, no where near the quality of Dog Soldiers.

ill be waiting Hermi indeed some evil clown pic's for my clans website will not go to waste.... so post away ))))

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e12/Cl1nt/clown0ae_291.jpg

Reverend

Dunno what happened, I capped em to a .doc (was in a hurry: sorry) an they seem to be quite pixely when I dump em into photochop now. That said, interesting effect tho

http://www.users.on.net/~thevault/HERMITech/BeforePosession.jpg

http://www.users.on.net/~thevault/HERMITech/BadCapture.jpg

http://www.users.on.net/~thevault/HERMITech/BadCap2.jpg

http://www.users.on.net/~thevault/HERMITech/BadCap3.jpg


doc.zip here if you want to try for yourself

ta champ me and ulead photo impact 11 will have a go at clearing them up Thanks)))

We have nothing to fear, but fear itself.

^ That scares me.