Man dressed as clown dies during Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade

• By NATASHA VELEZ, CYNTHIA R. FAGEN and LARRY CELONA
• Posted: 1:56 AM, November 23, 2012

Robert Blasetti, who died during the parade, with his wife Irene.

A 67-year-old man dressed as a clown went into cardiac arrest and died in front of throngs of horrified spectators at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade yesterday.

Robert Blasetti, 67, was with his wife, Irene, who was wearing a similar outfit and who desperately tried to revive him by administering CPR.

When a good Samaritan wearing a Macy’s sweatshirt took over, she was helped, weeping, to a parade cart.

Riyad Hasan

DEATH AT THE PARADE:Robert Blasetti is tended to by emergency workers after collapsing at the parade yesterday. He was later pronounced dead.

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