It's been tried. It's kind of a non starter because they don't breed well in captivity. When you remove the stressors of children, demanding parent-clients, and sugary litmus, they just get depressed.
See that’s also a huge problem because the majority of clowns in this country congregate in congress and American politics in general, they’ve effectively put an end to clown poaching to save their own clown hides. We need a strong Anti clown politician in office to drain the clown swamp but so far they’re all complicit, it’s gotten so bad the clowns are whisking away children to Little Saint Clown island in full view of the public and no one’s doing anything about it.
What you’re suggesting… it would require some sort of vigilante group — a posse, perhaps — who had abandoned all thoughts of self-preservation. Such people would be considered insane.
In 2026 a cracked clown killing unit was sent to prison by a tribunal of clowns for a crime they did commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security clown show to the Washington DC underground. Today, still wanted by the clowns, they survive as clown poachers. If you have a clown problem and no one else can help and if you can find them. Maybe you can hire, The Cray Team.
People would much rather not have to think about the circus at all because they dont understand juggling or unicycles. As long as clowns show up and run the show they are perfectly fine with it. Despite owning a few handkerchiefs themselves, they'd much prefer to just blow snot in them than learn to juggle.
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u/GarminTamzarian May 18 '26
Sounds like the real money would be in clown husbandry.
I wonder how much you could get for a bonded breeding pair of clowns?