This has to be somewhere in Europe

[HarveyDarkey]

[Fresh_Start]

1. was looking to try to find it and came across a variant

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/11/12/true-story-cadre-of-clowns-disrupts-north-carolina-nazi-and-kkk-gathering/

Here’s a sentence you won’t read every day: Neo-Nazis and members of the Ku Klux Klan were upstaged during a Charlotte, North Carolina rally Saturday by a crowd of defiant clowns determined to drown out the white supremacist message.

WCNC says the counter-protesters outnumbered the white supremacists by a ratio of about 5 to 1, and that instead of shouting or chanting, they employed devices like squeaky toys and whistles to distract from the white supremacist rally. Somewhat surprisingly, none of the clowns were assaulted, and no arrests were made.

[annabanana]

2. I wish we had more of this stuff here.

The Billionaires for Bush and the Yes Men are on the right track. Satire and ridicule are very powerful weapons.

[Marie Marie]

7. Big - no, HUGE fan of the Yes Men.

Those guys got some set of balls.

[Berserker]

3. Germany

http://notmytribe.com/2012/look-at-those-clowns-836495.html

[HarveyDarkey]

4. I knew it, thanks

I hate those Facebook posts with no context, cool as they may be.

[reorg]

8. You can quickly find the source with Google, though

through "search by image". If you put in the URL you get a list of pages that include matching images.

The one in the OP is a price winning shot by an AP photographer, from a G8 protest in Rostock, Germany

http://www.n24.de/news/newsitem_129056.html


You can also search for "similar images" - apparently based on key words associated with your original image, with sometimes odd results, depending on the language you use. Whereas in English, the keywords are "clown protest", in German they are the name of the photographer and Google thinks that this image may be similar to the one in the OP:

[tama]

5. Insane clown posse

[Angry Dragon]

6. It looks like the Secret Service guarding Congress