First You Ban Clown Shoes. Next You Ban the Clowns.

Usually the Nanny state is banning stuff that seems perfectly harmless in the name of safety, but I think this is one ban I can get behind: The UK is banning clowns from wearing big shoes because they could trip and fall and hurt themselves.

From the Telegraph here with thanks to Moonbattery:

Valerik Kashkin, a clown in the Moscow State Circus, was performing in Liverpool’s Sefton Park last Saturday when he fell from a three metre high slack wire, injuring his foot.

Although he continued to perform for the rest of the show, when he went to hospital later that evening, he was told he had broken the metatarsal bone in his left foot.

When he returned to the circus he was told by management he could no longer wear the size-18 shoes because they compromised his health and safety.

But he is now worried performing in his regular sized footwear will lose impact on the audience.

Health and Safety adviser to the circus said: “I’m not a believer in political correctness, or doing things for the sake of doing it however. “You have to take a common-sense approach with these things – if it’s stupid, don’t do it.“

You know, there has never been a bad pair of clown shoes.  It is only when you stick clowns in them shoes that they become hazardous.  They should do society a huge favor and just ban clowns altogether.