CLOWN STRIKE!
Monday, December 22, 2008 at 03:21PM I see that a fully-dressed clown was left stunned after being strip searched by airport security at Belfast.
Children's entertainer David Vaughan, 60, was dressed as Pc Konk, complete with huge floppy shoes, a policeman's helmet and face paint, when he was taken aside by security staff at Birmingham International Airport. Mr Vaughan had been booked by Variety Club Midlands to entertain 100 disadvantaged children on a plane as it circled the region on a one-hour Christmas charity flight. But 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. Staff also demanded he put his bubble mix liquid, to be used to blow bubbles from a plastic saxophone, into a clear sealed plastic bag.
I can only assume that they mistook PC Konk for Sir Hugh Orde - another clown.
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Outrageous! All clowns in Northern Ireland named David should protest! (drumroll please).