The answer is yes.

Halloween was not without its casualties: The NYDN reports that a "marauding clown" at the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade broke reporter Arthur Chi'en's face in six places when the clown scaled Chi'en's float, then knocked the newsman off of it.

At a clown convention in Mexico City, 700 clowns attempted to break the world record for laughter. They failed, probably because they turned and looked at each other, and the hellish scene of 700 cackling clowns scared them into silence.