[That lock is not a fashion statement/Facebook/Tom Grim Fandango Matthews]

Pranks are usually played on someone as a joke and meant to be funny but one man was left completely furious after he discovered a padlock attacked to his stretched out earlobe.

His friends, however, sure found the humour in his ordeal.

Tom Grim Fandango Matthews from the U.K. recently shared his bizarre story on Facebook.

“So guess what some little w*** stain just did to me if I find you I will put you six feet under …” wrote Mathews, who is pictured wearing the dangling padlock off his ear.

It seems the person behind the prank remains a mystery.

Matthews was on his lunch break at work when he heard a click behind him and realized there was a padlock attached to his ear, he wrote on Facebook. The person fled before Matthews had a chance to catch up with him.

Despite Matthews obvious angry over the situation, his friends chimed in to congratulate the perpetrator.

“I’ll find him to give him a high 5,” wrote a friend.

Another one added: “Brutal genius.”

One even offered to help Matthews: “I can pick locks, £10 an hour tho”

In the end, Matthews did eventually manage to get the padlock off using bolt cutters.