Clown at airport made to remove costume, hand over toy handcuffs
David Vaughan, aka PC Konk the clown, was made to strip down to his underwear at Birmingham Airport, England when his costume set off the metal detectors. He was booked to do an in-air charity show for disadvantaged children. Apparently, PC Konk was good humored about it. From The Guardian:
A piece of metal on his costume set off the security alarm, prompting security guards to confiscate his plastic handcuffs and order him to strip down to his shorts and T-shirt.Clown strip-searched before children's charity flight
Staff also demanded he put the liquid for his plastic bubble-blowing saxophone into a clear sealed plastic bag.
"I'd made sure I'd bought plastic handcuffs and a plastic whistle but I hadn't realised that the costume had a metal band – I thought it was plastic," said Mr Vaughan, from Shard End, Birmingham.
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I feel so much safer. ::sarcasm::
what costume did security wear?
Good. I know Konk, and he's a fucking psychotic. I mean, rip-your-eyes-outta-your-face-and-make-a-martini-with-'em dangerous. I once saw him go into a kid's oncology ward and pelt them with raw liver just to make 'em think about their insides.
I hate clowns.
Haven't those poor kids suffered enough?
What's the problem? Bozos fly all the time!
TAKUAN @2, LOLOLOLOL!!!!!
thenkyewthenkyew, I'm here all millennium. Try the shrimp.
Why is everyone surprised at this?
I mean....*hellooooo*, did nobody else WATCH 'The Dark Knight'?? Clowns are dangerous, man!
@#4 Takuan,
It's maybe because you have never met Extremo The Clown, He'd change your mind, well maybe not...
http://www.myspace.com/extremotheclown
He's a [weird] fixture around Portland. Occasionally you will see him driving his totally rad clown car,
Google extremo
okay back to talking about clowns and security
"Can't let him board... Clown will eat me..." -- Bart the Security Guard.
Also: Ouchy the Clown. NSFW. Or anywhere, really.
Jeebus people, don't you realize how much C4 he could fit inside those shoes?!
Clowns hate you.
Mump and Smoot, Slava's Snow Show - these are artists!
I, for one, am glad our diligent airport security people are protecting us from Godless terrorist clowns.
I want to see video of this guy emptying his pockets and pulling out rubber chicken after rubber chicken.
This is the same airport that had to dismiss a raft of baggage screeners for sleeping on duty and whose annual report had pictures from their new xray machine. The bag pictured seemed to contain lots of items that would keep a lonely lady busy of an evening.
The only clown I ever liked was Wavy Gravy, but I don't think he liked me.
You mean they had him in custody and let him go so he could traumatize more kids? Security theater indeed.
No, really, I mean, he COULD have been a terrorist.
It could have been the most cunning double bluff ever!
"Look at me! I'm a clown! Entertaining children (except actually, under this disguise, I am actually an evil Islamist mass murderer, intent on attaining paradise through my supreme sacrifice - DIE INFIDELS!!!!)."
Yeah.
HAH HA! thanks 18
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/06/brum_airport_shocker/
If that had been Homey the clown, you just know it would be the man using profiling to keep a brother down.
c'mon Buddy, tell the tale. When and where did you meet Wavy? You owe to these kids to teach them their heritage.
More clowny goodness right here. My pal Kreamy the Klown gettin' down at Berlin. SFW, except for the last 2 seconds where the hostess begins to, uhm, you know...
I thought Bush & Cheney had rounded up all the clowns and sent them off to the camps.
Oooooh Clowns. Red noses, painted faces...nevermind.
ZOMG! The sky IS falling!
Chicken Little - The Official DVD Website:
http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/chickenlittle
Ummmm I know a lot of clowns (really) and none of them would even try to board a plane "in face" ...
the show was "in air".
Wait, let me get this straight. This event was supposed to be enjoyable and it took place on an airplane and involved a clown?
with muthafukkin snakes in his pants
Clowns deserve to be water tortured. Give the kids kittens or puppies, but not some old freak dressed in makeup who can't buy clothes that fit.
There is no reality to what air travel now calls security.
That plastic bag for example.
It's become this century's Tin Foil Hat.
Q: What is the connection between Ziplock bags around fluids on airliners-
and Tin Foil Hats?
A: Both make money for the food packaging industry.
Errrk...
A clown with handcuffs of any sort makes me shrivel up somewhere in the most instinctual, reptilian, fight-or-flight part of my brain.
can they stop you from boarding if you have a ziploc on your head?
Damn - another plot foiled!
Tak @2 ftw!
A children's charity flight to nowhwere...just something surreal about that; Are they sure the clown strip search wasn't part of the act?