SO IT’S A CRIME TO MOCK MASS HYSTERIA NOW? Clowning dad charged after tailing school bus. “An Auburn dad who followed his kid’s school bus with a scary clown mask is being charged with disorderly conduct and disturbing the peace for terrifying the middle school students, whom he followed from the their bus stop, police said. . . . The Auburn man, who police did not identify last night, is facing the charges because ‘there was no legitimate purpose for his actions (which) could have caused a potentially hazardous situation to these children,’ a police spokesman said.”

So now you have to have a “legitimate purpose” to do entirely legal things? Besides, in today’s America, mockery is always a legitimate purpose.