Tom W was a clown too

Here's a story from Tommy White and one of his experiences with the old WFD clown team. A very funny story!

Hi Jack
Your clown story sparked some old memories of mine too.That Piva was at the bottom of many a clown fiasco.
Listen to the pot calling the kettle black....
My fondest clown memory...........
Old Ernie Meloche had hosted the fund raiser at Christmas for needy kids for years. We were working out of down town and Ernie was grooming young Ray Sequin( better known as redass) to take over for him. Ray was going to take over the event at the big Christmas show at the imfamous Odion. The clown team would provide the entertainment.
All the clown heads got together and decided to do the same skit we had used the easter before with Frank Moscardelli. We would dress Ray up in dress blue and intro him as the chief in charge. Then Mario and I would do some magic on him . We prepared him well. His jacket arms had be ripped off and tacked back on.
So the big day arrived and the show was packed on a saturday morning in December, with at least a thousand screaming brats and their mothers. What a show they were about to get. We collected all the canned goods and gifts and the show went great. Then the big finish....... The chief, Ray came out and thanked everyone and we started to help him and do our stuff.
We broke eggs and poured milk in his hat and then put it on his head, we took his watch and put it in a paper bag and smashed it to pieces, he complained of the heat and we ripped the arms off his jacket, we cut his tie and couldn't restore it, and then the big finish he had on flowery boxer shorts and a pair of Bob Coles pants. The pants were way too big but were held up by bright red suspenders.
We had rocks in the pockets and I would cut the suspenders and the pants would fall and there would be the flowery boxers....
Well I cut the suspenders but the pants stayed up.........panic......Sparky pull his pants down your right behind him...well Piva reached down and grabbed the pants and the boxers and pulled them down around Ray's ankles for all the world to see.........The screams started and Ray died, there he was in all his glory, hanging there for all the kiddies and mothers to see.... He wanted to kill us all, he chased us off stage and the crowd roared.....
Shortly after, Ray's hair turned white and started falling out..........Thanks to Piva.......
God I wish we had that on film........