Dark Clouds Rain Down Tears Washing Away Swirling Colors From The Clown's Face..
If you have a fear of clowns, turn back now.
Richard Levine doesn’t have that option. He inherited more than 13,000 clown-related knickknacks from his father-in-law, and now he has to figure out what to do with them.
Clown paintings, dolls and figurines, masks and costumes — if there’s a clown on it, Levine probably has it.
The collection is currently sitting in a warehouse in Davie, Fla., but Levine, 58, thinks it should be “in a museum or something,” he told the Sun-Sentinel.
He’s actually been sitting on the massive clown cache since 2010, when Jack "Clown Jackey" Kline died at age 81.
Kline spent more than 50 years amassing his hoard. He ran a storefront museum in Winter Haven, Fla. called Clown Rushmore to show it off, and visited sick kids in the hospital in clown regalia.
After he died, his son-in-law Levine — who also runs the sprinkler business Kline founded — made six 400-mile round trips from Davie to Winter Haven to box up the collection and stash it away.
"My wife and I had to make a decision. Leave it up there and probably lose it, or bringing it down here," he told the Sun-Sentinel.
He hopes to sell most of the clown items and donate some to charity, but he plans to keep at least a few of them.
"I am slowly starting to like them and getting enthusiastic about them,” he said. “I can see how Jack was into them.”
But he’s not as much of an equal-opportunity clown lover as his late father-in-law.
"I don't go for the sad clowns much,” he said. “But I really enjoy the happy ones.”
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/joke-man-inherits-13k-item...
Boy! that clown wasn't clowning around when it came to collecting clown stuff!
Living with that many clowns you know car pooling has to be an adventure.
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