Florida parents desperate to scare misbehaving kids hire scary clown

Florida parents can now source out punishment for their misbehaving children to a 65-year-old crown named ‘Wrinkles’ that will probably haunt their nightmares afterwards.

It’s like Beyond Scared Straight but quite possibly way more effective than a day in jail with extremely vocal guards.

Wrinkles the clown wears a white-spotted red onesie with a frill around the neck. His mask, pale and wrinkly with white hair, a sad painted on mouth and sunken black eyes.

The clown has been spotted around the southwest Florida area since 2013, according to the Palm Beach Post.

He appears at parties, pulls pranks and offers his hand in scaring misbehaving kids.

“He was scared of clowns and I showed up across the street from him at the bus stop and he just started crying in front of his friends and ran home,” Wrinkles told The Washington Post of one instance where he’d been hired to scare a 12-year-old. “His mother called back a few days later and said ‘Thank you!’ Now when he acts bad, she just has to ask him: ‘Do you want Wrinkles to come back?’ ”

Wrinkles didn’t give his real name, but told The Post he’s a 65-year-old military veteran hailing from Rhode Island who retired “a few years ago”.

He reportedly decided becoming a typical retiree in Florida wasn’t for him, instead ordering a clown mask and business cards and transforming himself into his alter ego.

“It’s fun,” he told The Post. “You get to be someone else. You get some people who are petrified and some people who want you to come home with them.”