Send out the Clowns?

Whoever they sent in, they weren't clowns.

Authorities say gunmen dressed in wigs and red noses fatally shot Mexican drug lord Francisco Rafael Arellano Felix last week. The Tijuana cartel elder was shot in the chest and the head during a children's party at a rented house at a Cabo San Lucas resort on the Baja California peninsula.

But Mexican Clowns say it wasn't one of their rank.  "The people who do that, they're not clowns. I can swear on my mother's grave it wasn't a clown," Tomas Morales, whose stage name is Payaso Llantom, told the Associated Press. Morales said that clowns are frequently victims of robberies, and their costumes and masks are then used to commit other crimes.

Either way, it's probably best not to mess with clowns...