This guy was clowning around the wrong people.

One US man got a massive beating after dressing up as a creepy clown and trying to scare a group of friends in a car.

Footage of the incident shows the clown, holding some balloons, walk close to a car where a number of men were hanging out.

'What the f**k is that, bro?' one of the man is heard saying as he spots the clown.

Footage of the incident shows the clown (left), holding some balloons, walk close to a car where a group of friends were hanging out (right)

Several men pummeled the creepy clown with punches, leaving him on the ground after the incident

'Are you serious?' he adds, yelling to the clown: 'Get away!'

The clown seems undeterred.

One of the men gets out of the car with what appears to be a baseball bat and whams the clown on the side of the knee.

'What y'all doing?' yells the man filming, who stays in the car while the action is happening.

'I'm not getting out of the car, bro,' he adds.

The clown falls to the ground — and two men join in, pummeling him down with punches.

One of the men takes the clown's balloons and the friends head back to the car, leaving them the clown on the ground.

One of the men gets out of the car with what appears to be a baseball bat and whams the clown on the side of the knee (left). He's left on the ground after the attack (right)

A number of sightings of spooky clowns have been reported across the United States recently

The incident was yet one more in a series of creepy clown sightings across the United States, which has caused a wave of hysteria — forcing police and schools to scramble to contain spreading jitters.

The spooky sightings were first reported in August in South Carolina when police were called in to investigate what turned out to be bogus accounts of men dressed as clowns trying to lure children into the woods.

But similar sightings have since been reported in more than a dozen states with authorities forced to react to stories of clowns lurking outside schools or businesses, armed clowns driving around in a van or clowns prowling neighborhoods.

Even the White House weighed on the phenomenon ,saying the sinister sightings that have led to about a dozen arrests should be taken seriously and that the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security had been consulted on how to handle the scare.

Even the White House weighed on the phenomenon, saying the sinister sightings that have led to about a dozen arrests should be taken seriously

Some creepy clowns reported in August in South Carolina when police were called in to investigate what turned out to be bogus accounts of men dressed as clowns trying to lure children into the woods

'Obviously, this is a situation that local law enforcement authorities take quite seriously and they should carefully and thoroughly review, you know, perceived threats to the safety of the community and they should do so prudently," said White House spokesman Josh Earnest.

One school in Ohio even shut down over security concerns after a woman said she was attacked by a man dressed as a clown.

And hundreds of students at Penn State University, in Pennsylvania, went on the hunt for jesters Tuesday night after reports of creepy clown sightings.