It’s the stuff of nightmares. Meet Wrinkles, an anonymous Naples, Florida, resident who – for a small fee – will don a scary clown mask, polka dot onesie, and black rubber gloves to attend your child’s birthday party and lurk in the darkest corner to freak them out. And WHY would he do that?
“It’s fun,” he explains. “You get to be someone else.” As you might have guessed, Wrinkles isn’t particularly fond of kids and entertaining them with the old balloon animal tricks. He’s old-school. “I’m just a good old-fashioned clown,” he said. “When I was a kid, it was okay to scare kids and now they’re all whiny and scared. I want to bring scary back.”
To that end, he was recently hired by a mother to teach her trouble-making 12-year-old son a lesson. “He was scared of clowns and I showed up across the street from him at the bus stop and he just started crying in front of his friends and ran home. His mother called back a few days later and said ‘Thank you!’ Now when he acts bad, she just has to ask him: ‘Do you want Wrinkles to come back?’ ”
From Oddity Central:
Although he prefers to keep his real identity a secret, Wrinkles told the Palm Beach Post that he is a 65-year-old Rhode Island native and army veteran who moved to Florida to enjoy a more relaxed life far away from the harsh New England winters. But he soon realized that playing golf and hanging around at country clubs like most of Florida pensioners wasn’t his cup of tea, so he came up with an original idea to keep himself busy. So he ordered a clown mask online, created some business cards and stickers advertising his phone number and started playing the creepy clown for anyone requiring his services.
As time went by, his popularity grew to the point where he now gets hundreds of phone calls every day, although he admits some requests are too much, even for him. Wrinkles said he has received requests from people to help them dump a body and other explicit requests to engage in lurid behavior, but he always turns them down, preferring instead to stand quietly in the corner at bar mitzvahs and birthday parties, or freaking people out on the street, for a fee, of course.
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