A New Year’s Eve reveler “urned” himself heaps of ridicule online after getting stuck inside a giant ornamental vase at a party in Mountain Brook, Alabama.
A video of the bozo’s in-vase-ive maneuver has amassed millions of views on Twitter.
According to a play-by-play posted to X by an eyewitness named “Casual Thursday,” the failed contortion act occurred after a party animal named Connor Padgett attempted to enter a “large decorative urn.”
The footage shows the sweater-clad Houdini wannabe wriggling his body down into the vessel so just his head and arms are visible like a human canopic jar.
“You’re not going to be able to get out,” exclaims one onlooker, to which Padgett agrees, “I’m not.”
Lo and behold, the Alabaman’s New Year prediction appeared to be correct: His attempts to pop out backfired, causing him to grow increasingly frustrated as people offered suggestions on how to escape.
“He was laughing at first but now he’s starting to get upset,” Casual Thurday wrote in an update. “The women are trying to comfort him. There is talk of attempting to break the urn.”
The original eyewitness wrote in a follow-up post that the party host subsequently “dispatched a friend to retrieve his sledgehammer.”
Padgett was eventually extracted from his porcelain prison with a hammer and makeshift screwdriver chisel, per the post.
“There’s a cracking sound and the crowd cheers,” they wrote. “He is free! The urn has been shattered and our hero emerges unscathed.”
Unfortunately, the owner’s bank account might not be as lucky. Revelers surmised replacing the urn could cost between $500 to $3,000, per the thread.
The jarring incident had X posters in hysterics.
“Thought this would have gone without saying but: do not try it at home,” warned one viewer.
“He should have to live his life in there like a hermit crab,” wrote one X wit, while a third quipped that:
“My mind woulda been blown if they break the urn only to find out he was half a man the whole time,” they wrote.