FEDS TARGET CLOWN CARS

The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration is cracking down on circus clown cars, noting that while such vehicles and the gaily-attired individuals crammed inside them indeed provide plenty of giggles and superb family entertainment, the agency is tasked with ensuring the safety of all vehicle occupants, and therefore, must act.   

Clown cars like this might become a thing of the past
if NHTSA cracks down

"Jamming 25 or more clowns--or as they prefer to be called, 'costumed gag artisans'--into a tiny vehicle with no seatbelts or airbags and insufficient exits, is more dangerous than drifting a Corvair," claimed NHTSA spokesman Oakley "Dink" Dinwiddie, who declined to comment about possible new rules.  

Said one clown who requested anonymity, "They're regulating us out of business.  Back in the good old days, we used to advertise that the circus was "more fun than a barrel of monkeys," but then PETA complained, so there went the monkeys.  I think it's time to retire," he said forlornly.