Clown on charity flight strip searched at Birmingham Airport
21.12.08
A clown wearing colourful pantaloons, huge comedy shoes and a flashing police helmet who was due to take off on a charity flight with sick children was strip-searched by staff at Birmingham Airport – because they thought he was a security risk.
Face-painted funnyman Dave Vaughan - dressed as PC Konk the clown - set off a metal detector. He was then strip-searched by airport security - forced to remove his huge floppy shoes, helmet, baggy trousers and shirt.
He was stopped trying to board a plane for a children’s charity trip. Security told him to put a liquid used to blow bubbles from a plastic saxophone into a sealed plastic bag. He even had his plastic handcuffs confiscated.
An airport spokesman said they seized the handcuffs to meet security regulations.
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