People in Kentucky are very scared of clowns.  You’d think they’d be more scared of their state legislature, but apparently they aren’t.

A man used his AR-15 to scare a woman wearing a white afghan Monday after mistaking her for clown, according to a citation from the Bardstown Police Department.

Wait a minute.  Just wait one damn minute. It takes an AR-15 to fire a warning shot? What the hell does he have in reserved to scare zombies?

Oh, it gets better.  It always does.

The man, Adam Tingle, said his wife was outside when she thought she saw a clown, so Tingle came out and yelled at the individual, according to the citation. The woman did not move after being yelled at, so Tingle fired one shot from his AR-15 rifle in an attempt to scare her. Tingle’s wife then called 911 to report the incident.

According to the citation, Tingle said he was scared for his family because of recent criminal activities involving clowns.

Okay, I’ve been doing a little research on how far an AR-15 round travels and the answer appears to be that if you aim it at an upward angle, it’ll go further than 400 yards.  So, if we assume that’s about a 1/4 of a mile, in a residential neighborhood, with people all over the damn place, then he certainly succeeded in scaring people.  However, if you shoot it straight up, you can puncture the moon and that’s not good.

The police took his rifle until his court date.  Forever sound better to me.

Thanks to Ron S for the heads up.