Anchors can’t keep a straight face when reporting on a car crash involving clowns and big shoes

Clowns may scare some people, but like these news anchors, they make a lot of us laugh uncontrollably

Ever wonder how in the world there are people with a legitimate fear of clowns?

These news anchors, who were reporting on a car accident involving two men dressed as clowns, had your more garden variety reaction—-they couldn't stop laughing.

It was pretty obvious how things were going to go down when the anchor reading the story's lead couldn't even get through a sentence without cracking up.

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As you'll see here, the story definitely gave the writers plenty of material for some witty copy.