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RCMP monitoring "Creepy Clown" phenomenon

It's still a few weeks from Halloween, but scary clowns are popping up all over social media. Kamloops RCMP have taken notice and so has a Kamloops man who makes his living as a clown for kids.

Across North America, people are dressing up as scary clowns to frighten total strangers

Clowns of all shapes and sizes have been terrorising people in the United States all summer. Now the pranksters have moved north of the border. (Erik S. Lesser/EPA)

Kamloops RCMP aren't laughing about the creepy clown phenomenonthat is sweeping social media.

It began in the United States and has crept across North America.

A person dresses up in a scary clown costumeand then goes out in public to scare total strangers.

In many cases the prank has back-fired.

A student in Prince George was recently arrestedfor posting an image online of clowns with guns.

The text read "Every school in PG about to get hit."

Corporal Jodi Shelkie speaks for the Kamloops RCMP

To hear more about what's happening in Kamloops,click the link: RCMP monitoring "Creepy Clown" phenomenon