Clowns lurked outside schools to promote a speech academy. Horrified parents called the police.
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"Multiple clowns have been spotted loitering outside schools in Singapore staring intently, approaching pupils and allegedly asking the young children to follow them."
Clowns lurked outside schools to promote a speech academy. Horrified parents called the police.
The organization behind the stunt in Singapore has promised it will never happen again.
washingtonpost.com
7:08 AM · Sep 22, 2021
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/22/singapore-clowns-school-scaring-parents/
Multiple clowns have been spotted loitering outside schools in Singapore staring intently, approaching pupils and allegedly asking the young children to follow them. Their unnerving presence sparked a flurry of complaints from concerned parents who immediately called on the police to investigate.
Singapore police confirmed Monday that they had received numerous reports regarding the clowns presence outside different schools and that officers had linked the bizarre stunt to a private education center which had dreamed up the stunt in an apparent bid to attract recruits to its speech school.
The police are verifying the facts with an education center on their alleged involvement in the incidents. Police investigations are ongoing, local media reported, citing a statement that did not name the education center.
Authorities asked the public to avoid interactions with strangers and to continue reporting suspicious activity to the police, as the principal of one of the targeted schools asked parents to remind their children of the risk that strangers pose.
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