Circus Ordered to Take Down Posters After One Complaint From a Woman Who Is Scared of Clowns
20th October 2013
A council has removed posters advertising a circus following a complaint from a woman who is scared of clowns.
Leighton Buzzard Town Hall Council said it took down the adverts after one complaint – in a town of 28,000 people.
An unnamed female resident told the authority the posters were scaring her whenever she drove past them, explaining that she suffers from coulrophobia.
Oh, well, that’s all right then.
Phobia expert and hypnotherapist Christine Black suggested the complainant and council may have gone about addressing the issue in the wrong way.
‘The council have merely accommodated her fear,’ she said.
‘The lady is trying to manage her fear by controlling her environment but she needs to control the irrational fear.’
Good luck with that advice….