With so many pranks already exhaustively aggregated on the internet, it may be hard to imagine surprising anyone with something they haven’t seen before. Tom Matthews, who goes by the curious handle “Grim Fandango,” from Penzance, Cornwall, in the southwest of England, found himself the victim of a sneaky jab.
As the story goes, Matthews, who has multiple piercings, including a labret, the technical term for a chin piercing, was at a local pub. He had stepped outside for a cigarette when some prankster had the nerve to loop and lock a padlock through one of his rather large-sized ear-piercing holes, leaving him unable to remove it and fuming.
The explanation did little to inspire any sympathy for Matthews, as commenter after one commenter poked fun at his situation. At least someone seemed to have a pretty practical solution in mind. “Get yourself to the diy shop and give em a fiver to cut it off,” they wrote helpfully.
Yet even this user couldn’t resist pouring a little salt in the wound while giving advice, adding, “After they’ve stopped taking pictures and [expletive] themselves of course.”
Another commenter indulged in a truly awful pun, “Ear you should be locked up looking like that!”
It wasn’t clear how long Matthews and the padlock were connected; he posted fairly quickly that he was lucky to find a friend up who “lived up the road and had bolt cutters.”
