A clown accompanying a crowd of children for a flight around the United Kingdom was stripped searched recently after his toy handcuffs alerted the airport metal detectors. Security staff were on hand to help PC Konk to take off his giant baggy trousers, massive shoes and to examine his bubble saxophone, toy camera and police-clown identity card. The latter had his photo and a description of him being in the Criminally Insane Department. The clown was later allowed to continue on his way, although his handcuffs were confiscated.
Terrorist clown?
Beware of clowns with coloured pantaloons
Who wear huge shoes and stand in airport lounges.
They might well be a terrorist, a threat!
Hiding water bombs and paper scissors –
Planes could burst with laughter!
Metal detectors, tootle with mirth
As security with indecent frowns,
Press the children’s jester to promptly disrobe.
Toy handcuffs, seized from his still chuckling girth,
Impounded! On Britain’s safety grounds!
© Edward Beaman-Hodgkiss
The full story of this humorous airport encounter can be found in this Daily Telegraph article from the 21st of December.
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OMG! LOL or should I say for COL!!!!! Good grief.
I pulled over to the side of the road at a roadside pullover at night to pen a poem as inspiration struck and a cop pulled up to see what I was doing. He thought I might be a terrorist and was dumbfounded and not terribly convinced by my explanation of wanting to write a poem–he made me move on with poem incomplet!
Edward that was great!