Even in death, the consummate showman snaps his suspenders.

Boulder, CO - A frat party at the University of Colorado was stopped cold Saturday when Kappa Kappa Psi president Danny Boorman, tapping his third mega-keg of the night, peeked into the keg and spotted a full-sized human rodeo clown stuck inside! The clown, Emmett Pelford, had been dead for 'some time,' according to a vomiting campus police officer who either refused to give us his name or just could not stop his gag reflex long enough to speak. (His plastic badge identified him as 'Dozer.') Pelford, 37, of Tightfit, Montana, had been a drifter since high school, then a drifter with clown makeup, and finally in '97, a rodeo clown. He was voted Best Gore at the RodeOlympics in Las Vegas in 2001 and had the distinction of being the only rodeo clown - and only human, for that matter - whose left arm has been surgically reattached twice at different times. Pelford apparently got stuck in the beer barrel when that particular barrel was used at the Cheyenne, Wyoming Frontier Days for clowns to hide in during the bullriding competition. Speculation has it that Pelford dove in late in the day, knocked himself unconscious and was returned to Shlatzman's Beer with the keg. Apparently the keg cleared the 'Sanitization Facility' at Shlatzman's with Pelford still in it, was re-filled and shipped to Shlatzman's western states distributing plant. Kappa Kappa Psi president Boorman said he thought the keg felt 'a little heavy' but he attributed that to Shlatzman's penchant for placing cinder blocks in their kegs to displace liquid. Despite it's powerful "prairie hops" taste, Shlatzman's is popular on many campuses because it has 7.7-percent alcohol content and is one-third the price of any other beer. Pelford will be buried at the corner of El Greco and Ninth Street in Pamplona, Spain.