Stranded Travelers Now Must Also Endure Clowns

I barely got out of Eurpoe last week before too much of the region was crippled by the snow. Thousands of other travelers weren’t as lucky. Many are stuck in snow-bound terminals and still don’t know when they will get home. They have to sleep on the airport floors with little good food, no showers and now, they also have to endure clowns hired by the government as their entertainment.

As if this travel nightmare weren’t bad enough, from Fox here:

With travelers stranded by hundreds of flight cancellations, Germany’s busiest airport has hired clowns to help them and their children pass the hours.

“Four clowns are performing in the terminal halls,” the spokeswoman for Frankfurt’s international airport said. “We came up with the idea for the kids, who are finding the delays particularly trying,” she added.

The clowns, dressed in brightly colored costumes and some parading on stilts, started working at the weekend, when heavy snowfall led to hundreds of flights being scrapped amid chaos in the European air traffic network. Fights broke out at the airport among stressed-out holiday travelers late Friday, according to press reports, leading police to send in reinforcements.

More reinforcements mean more clowns. Of course you would find clowns at airports. Humorless, soulless people who like to touch kids? Clowns and TSA employees have lots in common, right?