When you’re a kid, the best part of Halloween is dressing up and hitting people up for candy. When you get older, it’s less about the treats and more about the tricks. But the prankster dressed up as a scarecrow in this video ended up getting an unexpected “treat” for his efforts.

Things like this generally don’t happen in haunted houses, because people go in expecting to be scared. But when you walk up onto someone’s front porch, you’re not exactly expecting an innocent-looking scarecrow to jump at you. This guy certainly didn’t, and he cold-cocked him before he even had time to think about it.

When it was all said and done, Mr. Scarecrow probably didn’t even need a mask to scare the kiddies. Chances are his face was bruised and swollen enough to be scary all by itself.