Creepy ‘Pennywise’ clown swipes noticed from retailer earlier than proprietor scares him off

What a clown.

A creepy intruder in a “Pennywise’’ masks busted right into a Tennessee backyard middle and swiped a noticed blade — earlier than being spooked by a sound over the shop’s intercom and fleeing.

The unidentified, flashlight-wielding burglar — who wore a blue jacket and white masks wreathed with wild orange hair a la Stephen King’s killer-clown “It” character — kicked in a again fence on a wet day final week to interrupt into JVI Secret Gardens in Donelson, in keeping with Information Channel 5 Nashville.

The shop’s proprietor, Derek Johnson, instructed the community {that a} enterprise companion watched on the store’s safety cameras because the “Pennywise” lookalike shuffled round.

The companion instructed Johnson to recover from there as quickly as he might.

“ ‘Hey, there’s somebody on the backyard middle carrying a white masks, it’s essential to stand up there proper now,’ ” Johnson recalled his colleague telling him.

However one have a look at the footage satisfied Johnson in any other case.

“I mentioned, ‘Nope, I’m not going up there,’ ” he mentioned with amusing.

As a substitute, Johnson tried to speak to the burglar via the digicam speaker — and that did the trick.

“After I clicked the speaker, I believe it made a noise, and he acknowledged it and mentioned, ‘I’m leaving’ and jetted,” Johnson mentioned.

When Johnson arrived afterward, he observed that the intruder had tried to jack a propane tank and made off with a round noticed blade, he mentioned.

“Right here’s a creepy clown,” the proprietor mentioned. “He stole a noticed blade.”

Cops are nonetheless investigating the incident — however it’s not the primary time the shop’s been hit by thieves.

Johnson mentioned the string of break-ins will possible result in the set up of some extra cameras.

“I really feel like it might be the identical particular person as a result of we had one other tank like that stolen six months in the past,” he mentioned. “They stole a device bag and got here in the identical spot.”

Johnson instructed the community that he’s blissful nobody received damage — however the crime nonetheless gave him a shiver.

“I’m processing,” he mentioned. “This can be a candy little backyard middle. It’s Donelson. I actually don’t know why folks would break right into a backyard middle of all locations.”