A teenager is facing charges of armed assault after two bizarre incidents involving clowns on the South Shore.

Wednesday evening a group of teens was in a park in Saint Remi when a person in a clown costume approached and scared them.

The teenagers ran off, but one fell to the ground and was attacked in some fashion by the clown.

The clown then fled the scene and met up with another person dressed as a clown in the neighbouring community of Saint Clotilde.

The Sureté du Quebec said the Saint Clotilde clown also tried to scare a group of teens.

Police were able to arrest two people following the incidents, and one of them will be charged with assault with a weapon.

This year there have been multiple reports throughout the U.S. and Canada of people dressed as clowns trying to lure children into forests or attacking people.

The SQ said that copycats have done the same in multiple areas of Quebec over the past few weeks.

The police force is warning people considering dressing up to frighten people that they can face charges too, regardless of their intention.

“They can face criminal charges like threat, disguise with criminal intent, criminal negligence and disturbing the peace,” said Marie Beauvais-Lavoie, spokesperson for the Longueuil police.

Longueuil police are also asking the public to call 9-1-1 if they spot creepy clowns, and warning would-be pranksters that they risk criminal charges.

“The SPL is taking the opportunity to warn the people who dress as clowns to carefully consider the negative impact on the rest of the population by doing so,” said Beauvais-Lavoie.

Dad Jason England said even though no one has been hurt by a clown, people are nervous.

“My kids are terrified to go out at night just to take the garbage out,” he said. “It’s a task for them. They want me to go with them because they are scared a clown is going to pop up in the bushes somewhere and attack them.”

Despite the possible dangers and consequences of the creepy clown phenomenon, sales of clown costumes are on the rise, said Marc Choran, owner of Giggles Halloween Depot.

“Definitely in the last week or two we've seen teenagers coming in and interested in clown masks clown costumes,” he said, adding that if someone has the intention to harm, the costume has nothing to do with it.

“In the past it's been the Anonymous (Guy Fawkes) mask. There’s always something every year there is something different,” he said.

The trend may already be in trouble: A John Abbott student developed the app Clown Spotter in order to locate the clowns in your area.

In just one week, it's been downloaded almost 30,000 times.

“If you go check on the map, you can see the clown nearby on your street and when you click on it you’ll see it was located 12 minutes ago or an hour ago,” said Clown Spotter co-creator Usama Saleem.