Stephen King met the Bangor Police Department’s Duck of Justice
A red balloon was tied to the Bangor Police Department’s Duck of Justice.
The Bangor Police Department is having some fun with the release of the horror movie It based on Stephen King’s novel.
King has said the fictional town of Derry, Maine, portrayed in It, is based on Bangor, and the department jokingly recounted in a Facebook post Thursday how a red balloon was “found” tied to the department’s world-famous mascot — the Duck of Justice.
Sergeant Tim Cotton, who runs the department’s popular Facebook page, wrote that at first he thought “out of town prankster were to blame” for the balloon, which was a reference to the Maine author’s tale of a demon that emerges every 27 years and takes the form of a killer clown, luring children to sewer grates using red balloons in the fictional town of Derry.
“I’ll be honest, it was a little creepy,” Cotton wrote. “I checked the security cameras; nothing. Nothing but a red balloon floating around. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know about Pennywise, Derry, the September 8th premiere of ‘It.’ Of course I know about all that. I was raised here.”
A police department in Pennsylvania reported finding red balloons tied to sewer grates earlier this week.
Cotton said only one person “could get to the bottom of this,” so he went to the original source of It, bringing the Duck of Justice with him.
“Mr. King claims he has no idea how the balloon ended up inside the secure doors of the Bangor Police Department,” Cotton wrote. “I believe him. Strange things happen here about every 27 years.”
The Maine author attended a special screening of the new movie adaptation of his scary tale with residents of Bangor this week.
Read the department’s whole humorous post below:
https://www.facebook.com/bangormainepolice/posts/10155738048451079
