Posted on 02/23/2007 4:51:03 AM PST by yankeedame
Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:19AM EST Two clowns were shot and killed by an unidentified gunman during their performance at a traveling circus in the eastern Colombian town of Cucuta, police said Wednesday.
The gunman burst into the Circo del Sol de Cali Monday night and shot the clowns in front of an audience of 20 to 50 people, local police chief Jose Humberto Henao told Reuters. One of the clowns was killed instantly and the second died the next day in hospital.
"The killings had nothing to do with the show the victims were performing at the time of the incident," Henao said in a telephone interview. "We are investigating the motive."
With an entrance fee of under 50 U.S. cents, Circo del Sol de Cali attracts mostly poor Colombians. It pitched it tents in Cucuta, near the border with Venezuela, earlier this month.
"The clowns came out to give their show and then this guy came out shooting them," one audience member told local television. "It was terrible."
My first reaction: it was a Muslim who thought the clowns were portraying Mohammad.
"Okay, which one of you clowns has been causing trouble?"
I hope Mary Richards wasn't in the audience.
It's a start.
Shoot All The Clowns ping.
Everyone hates clowns.
I hope they catch the Bozo that committed this awful deed.
Oh, I thought that there was an assassination in congress???
Pray for W and Our Troops
Really?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1788816/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1789175/posts
Maybe they caught a glimpse of the Anna Nicole Smith clown video and were freaked out.
A good start. Oh wait, that's lawyers.
Not a ping
Nyuck Nyuck Nyuck
I once took my 5 year-old daughter to the circus. About halfway through she became sullen and withdrawn, and wouldn't say what the problem was. Later, she told her mother that she had a horrible time because they were "killing the clowns", apparently referring to the act where several of the clowns were shot out of a cannon.
Tough crowd.
It's been said the clowns gave a killer performance. So sad.
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