Warning that “stupid could be deadly right now,” Peachtree City issued an alert to residents over the weekend asking that neither adults nor teenagers dress up as clowns and pull pranks.

Reports of such incidents in other states have caused alarm and even prompted school closings. The city said that “what might be intended as a joke could easily endanger not only a frightened child or adult” but also could result in the injury or death of the perpetrator if someone felt threatened.

Residents were told to report any suspicious activity, clown-related or not, to 911 or to the non-emergency police line at 770-461-HELP.

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Fulton DA Fani Willis (center) with Nathan J. Wade (right), the special prosecutor she hired to manage the Trump case and had a romantic relationship with, at a news conference announcing charges against President-elect Donald Trump and others in Atlanta, Aug. 14, 2023. Georgia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025, upheld an appeals court's decision to disqualify Willis from the election interference case against Trump and his allies. (Kenny Holston/New York Times)

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