As a fan of Point Break, Sugar and Spice, and Killing Zoe, we've wondered about the innate practicality of robbing a bank in a mask. "Your peripheral vision must suffer" we'd muse "and it's gotta get hot in there! What a stupid idea."

Apparently, it's less stupid than we thought, as clown-masked gunmen successfully robbed a South San Francisco bank this morning. Thieves entered the 211 Airport Blvd branch of the First National Bank of Northern California at 11:44 a.m. today, claiming to have weapons (Flower that shoots water? Annoyingly squeaky balloon animal?), though none were seen. Two of the robbers rifled the tellers' drawers while the third remained in the lobby, just like pretty much every movie we've ever seen about a bank robbery.

One of the thieves wore a ski mask instead of the clown one, which makes us wonder if he was a late addition to the team, someone with a head too large for the clown disguise, or just unwilling to look uncool. The incident is being investigated jointly by the FBI and South San Francisco police.