My favorite Ringling Bros story:

Early 90s, I was attending UW-Madison. We lived in an apartment building next to the train tracks. The circus came to town for a week and parked their train next to our apartment. They would live on the train while in town. We had 4 hot cheerleaders living in the apartment below us, they hung out exclusively with the biggest guys on the football team. One night they returned from the bars with a couple football players and immediately saw that their place had been ransacked. The football players went to check the place out and noticed an elbow sticking out from under the bed. They yanked the elbow out and found it attached to a naked guy holding a knife. Turns out he was wanted in Florida for raping a 13 year old girl and stabbing her over 50x. He had gone and joined the circus, I guess that was actually a real thing.

Post script: America's Most Wanted filmed for a week outside our apartment. They even interviewed Barry Alvarez about the players who caught the perv. When they aired it you could see my foot on our balcony (we had filming keg parties every night they were there)

Truth be told, they were profiling you for the Brown's Chicken thing.