Clowns don't necessarily scare me, but I do tend to avoid any place with a clown. They all seem like criminals to me. They're creepy as ****, and they wear so much face paint that it hides what they actually look like. Which is the perfect disguise for a criminal. I actually heard somewhere that when criminals were on the run from the law, they would join the circus as clowns so as to avoid being tracked down. What annoys me even more than the criminal thing is the fact that most clowns tend to be fluorescent. You can't sleep in a room with a clown. The bastards just keep glowing. It pisses me off.