A clown embraces a woman whose child has been missing since the tsunami in Chile - pic

[Kadie]

A clown embraces a woman whose child has been missing since a tsunami spawned by the 8.8-magnitude earthquake hit Juan Fernandez Island in southern Chile.

Photo: str / AP


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[Bluebear]

1. OMG what a surreal shot!

[Occulus]

22. Holy shit. That's a sadly awesome photo.

There are depths to that that I'm unable to fathom at the moment.

Pulitzer Prize material. We don't see juxtaposition like that very often.

[Kadie]

23. This picture

gives me chills. I have posted many pictures here at DU, but this is one of the most amazing to me. It is amazing how much a photo can move you.

[babylonsister]

2. Check out the background. Devastating. So sad. But

I wonder what the clown was doing there? :wtf:

[aquart]

3. Maybe working with the surviving children?

Unless the horror just drove him around the bend.

Notice how easy it is to spot a tsunami landscape now? Before the devastation in Indonesia (and all the other places) a tsunami was just something I heard about in school but couldn't imagine. I never never thought that things would be IN the water, that it wasn't just the water that was deadly, but everything that had been destroyed.

[rabs]

4. There was a little circus in the town

and it was wiped out.

It is typical for a circus to visit outlying coastal towns at this time of the year, the end of the summer season in Chile when people are on vacation.

There was another circus in Concepcion that was also destroyed. A caged lion survived the tsunami and was shown on Chilean TV.

edit to fix typo

[babylonsister]

5. Ah! Thanks! nt

[rabs]

11. You're welcome and here is photo

of the circus that was destroyed by the tsunami in Iloca, a coastal town near Concepcion and the epicenter of the megaquake last Saturday dawn. The seaside vacation town was heavily damaged.



http://www.vancouversun.com/Photos+aftermath+massive+Chilean+earthquake/2622467/2628717.bin?size=620x400

[inna]

6. i've been clown-phobic (forget the latin term for that) for as long as i can remember. :(

[Hekate]

21. Coulrophobia

:-( indeed

[Stevenmarc]

7. You should have seen the other 11 of them exiting the clown rescue vehicle.

[DRoseDARs]

8. *groan* Yeah, that made me smirk, jerk.

:) :P

[a la izquierda]

9. sometimes, i love humanity.

most days, i can't stand it. that's sad, considering i'm not even 33 years old not nearly as heart rending as that shot, though.
what a nice sentiment. i love latin america, warts and all. clowns are very prevalent in the street culture.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

10. Very sad, but I can't help but think of a Fellini film.

[ChicagoSuz219]

19. OMG, yes!

The one with Guilietta Massina where Anthony Quinn plays the Strong Man... I'm spacing out on the name... awesome movie!!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

24. La Strada (The Road).

Though several of his movies also featured clowns.

[ChicagoSuz219]

29. That's the one!

Thanks... it was bugging me... ;-)

Awesome movie!

[TK421]

12. Instead of giving hugs, he should try to extinguish those flames in the back with his seltzer n/t

[Cleita]

13. Caught in the moment?

It seems he threw off what he could of his gear (lying there on the brick road), but he really couldn't cream off the grease paint that much in a hurry considering the circumstances. He seems like a compassionate person or clown.

[bonemachine]

14. hmm

looks like a mask to me

[bertman]

16. I'm going with grease paint and fake red nose held on by rubber band around head, for fifty.

[bonemachine]

17. oh good point

didn't even think it might be the nose...

[rabs]

15. Teleton "Chile ayuda Chile" is on

La Tercera carrying it live and we are seeing the best of Chile tonight after the megaquake.

http://latercera.com/

Isabel Allende was one of the first to appear with don Francisco. She said she had flown down from San Francisco to donate a HALF MILLION DOLLARS. :applause:

[Cleita]

18. I love Isabel Allende

:applause:

[ChicagoSuz219]

20. This could be the saddest picture ever... :-( n/t

[Fast Dude]

27. Not even close

The firefighter carrying the lifeless body of 1 year old Baylee Almon from the Oklahoma City bombing is the saddest ever.

To this day, I can't look at that pic without tearing up.

[ChicagoSuz219]

30. That's sad, as well.

It's not a contest. I was just very moved by the picture that was in front of me... & all the devastation it showed.

[pipi_k]

25. This is as touching as

the final scenes of "Good Morning Vietnam" where they show all sorts of sad and awful things, but the accompanying music is Louis Armstrong singing "What a Wonderful World".

God...that just makes me cry every time I see it.

:(

[eppur_se_muova]

26. Surreal ... I thought it would be Clowns Without Borders ...

yes, there is such a thing.

http://clownswithoutborders.org/

[Kadie]

28. Wow.

No Child Without A Smile

Awesome.

:)