Remember the TV show 'Bones'?
The lead guy Booth hated clowns and shot a plastic one on top of an ice cream van, I could sympathise with that.
A few years ago my step daughter had an Italian boyfriend Alessio, who worked as a clown entertainer, the funniest thing I ever saw him do was drive his van over an unmarked drop at the edge of a carpark.
He was jumping up and down, screaming and allsorts, all he was missing was his trousers falling down and being smacked around the head with a plank,
I was tempted though ( the plank, not the trousers).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
