So... apparently the Juggalos (Fans of the rap group Insane Clown Posse) did their own relatively big tabletop gaming con. It must have been promoted exclusively through the Juggalo scene, because I don't remember reading a peep of it on any of the gaming sites I visit. Apparently a kid there, possibly gay, got jumped and his face was pounded into meatloaf (The pics ain't pretty). There may have been guns displayed by some con-goers. The entire con was then cancelled for "Safety" concerns mid-event via letters that hotel guests awoke to find had been slid under their doors in the dead of night.

I'm actually sympathetic to Juggalos (I'm not one but I come from the same... um... sub-cultural milieu), and I don't mean to mock them, but this sounds nuts.

I get the feeling that Juggalos tend to ruin everything they touch.

After all, Insane Clown Posse albums don't get released, they escape.

They don't go Gold or Platinum, they go cardboard. They're on the verge of becoming sheet rock.

I'm here all night, folks.


But seriously, as someone who has met some Juggalos and ex-Juggalos, I can safely say that the subculture attracts a lot of unhinged people, similar to furries but in a different way.

That doesn't surprise me in the slightest. I've had the misfortune of dealing with a fair few Juggalos over the years and they've always been the worst sort. Hard drug use is rampant in the subculture and they all fancy themselves as badasses.

Fucking magnets.