Gasp!

Last week, his 4-year-old son, Joey, somehow got his head wedged in between the legs of a life-size, grinning fiberglass clown -- the fast-food chain's trademark -- at the Kooser and Blossom Hill roads McDonald's restaurant. The mishap triggered an ordeal that ended when employees finally lathered the 40-pound preschooler's head with liquid soap and slipped him out.

Joey emerged unscathed. Nonetheless, Roberts, 34, believes statues like this one, in which the figure is seated with legs crossed ankle over knee, ought to exiled. ``These things ought to be removed,'' he said.