Clark County sheriff’s deputies have been responding to a handful of weird clown sightings each of the past few nights, a clearly exasperated sheriff’s Sgt. Brent Waddell said Thursday night.

On one call Wednesday night, deputies went to the Felida area and found a 17-year-old boy, in some clown regalia, and his buddy messing around in traffic, Waddell said.

“It’s not illegal to be a clown, but it is illegal to be running in the roadway,” Waddell said.

The boys were not arrested, but were brought to their parents, “who provided the appropriate parental response,” he said.

Shortly after that, deputies responded to a call of someone wearing a mask and aluminum foil over his face who frightened a mother and daughter when he tried to enter their home.