Complaints over Ku Klux crows

The ghostly white scarecrows on Joseph Smith's cornfield frightened more than the geese he was trying to scare away.

The scarecrows so closely resembled Ku Klux Klan garb that they sparked complaints from staff and visitors at a nearby prison in East Lyme, Connecticut.

Workers on Smith's farm made the scarecrows out of the white, hooded environmental suits they wear to spray the crops. Soon after, administrators at the JB Gates Correctional Institution began receiving complaints. Smith's wife, Terri Smith, said: "We were just trying to scare away the geese."