Clown robs woman sitting on toilet

Robbery usually isn't a laughing matter, but for one woman in Ohio, it eventually did become one after a man wearing a clown mask tried to mug her. "This character in a clown mask threw open my bathroom door. I was on the commode, so it was kind of a surprise." Seventy-year-old Jacqueline Cutright says she lost $28, about $1,000 worth of costume jewelry, and her Ford Escort after a guy wearing this mask broke into her Akron home early on Saturday morning. The one thing he did not rob her of was her sense of humour.

"Wanted to know where all my drugs and money were, and I said, 'Boy, did you break into the wrong house,'" says Cutright. Police say the man behind the mask waving a knife was 22-year-old Cory Buckley of Akron. He got in through this basement window, ransacked the house and found Jacqueline's prescription medications. "I said this is my blood pressure medicine. You want some of that? No. I said this is medicine to help me sleep. You want something to help you sleep? He said no, he wanted Oxycontin and money," Cutright says.

Jacqueline says she thought Buckley was going to take a little silver bracelet a friend had given her, but he gave it back. That's when she knew he meant her no harm. "The bracelet said 'A mother holds her children's hands for a while but their hearts forever,' which I think is lovely, and when he read that, he gave it back to me. That's when I thought, 'This man's not going to hurt me.'" After two hours of tearing the house apart, Buckley took off in Jacqueline's car.

According to a police report, he only made it to the end of the street. As police raced toward him, Buckley rolled the car twice, crawled out the window and made a full confession, right after his knife dropped from his pants pocket onto the pavement in front of the arresting officer's feet. After all that, Jacqueline's wondering if she could have taken him herself. "I thought about doing ninja stuff to him, but I thought no he's faster than I am so, I more or less just sat there on the lid," says Cutright.