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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That is how you show up to clown school.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

“Clown” is a noun or adjective?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

I.. I think I'm in love with her

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

This wins the most ridiculous thing I’ve read on the internet this year. And it’s December.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

as someone who went to clown school, I can't say that everyone there was very smart.

they had to have an intervention with the year below me because they all stopped eating solid food to do a fad diet with some kind of herbal tea.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

Just putting it out there - this is one of those situations where a story about the inner drama of clown school (with pictures if possible) could elevate you to an internet legend. I personally had no idea it was a multi-year process.

Joel McHale might play you in the movie adaptation. This lady could make a cameo once she’s out of prison and deported back to the US. Maybe don’t startle her on set, though.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I want to lie down on a rug in front of the fireplace and listen to your clown school tales, while you sit in a rocking chair and knit

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wouldn’t tying balloon animals be more appropriate than knitting?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I bet you could do a really interesting AMA based on that experience

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[–] [email protected] 99 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

There's even more to the story, every step even more absurd than the other:

US woman caught with golden gun in luggage at Sydney airport jailed for a year
US woman backflips in court, pleads guilty to smuggling 24-carat gold gun into Sydney

A review of Goodson’s phone revealed she had searched online “can I have a gun in my suitcase?” and set a calendar entry with a note reminding her to “put gun in suitcase”.

“What about the gun in your bag?” she was asked by a customs officer. Goodson replied: “Oh yeah, I forgot about that.”

"I am scared of shooting it... I would probably just pistol whip until I got training again," she said.

The court also heard that she previously owned two other guns while living in the States, but she had accidentally given them away. "Those guns I ended up giving away, because I accidentally left them in a donation box."

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

US woman backflips in court

I'm gonna need a courtroom sketch of that

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 2 weeks ago

Clown school principal: “I’m sorry ma’am, we have nothing to teach you.”

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Jesus mother of fuck

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago

No brain cells were harmed, or even used in any way during that particular interaction .. I suppose they also eat rocks or inject bleach?

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