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Party animal roasted for getting stuck in decorative urn: ‘Do not try it at home’

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

According to a play-by-play posted to named “Casual Thursday,” the failed contortion act occurred after a party animal named attempted to enter a “large decorative urn.”

The fo🦄otage shows the sweater-clad Houdini wannabe wriggling his body down into the vessel so just his he🅘ad and arms are visible like a

“You’re not going to be able to get out,” exclaims , 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 “The women are trying to comfort him. There is talk of attempting to break the urn.”

Connor Padgett enters the urn. TheWapplehouse/X

The original eyewitness post that the party host subsequently “dispatched a friend to retrieve his sledgehammer.”

Padgett wa🥂s eventually extracted from his porcelain prison with a hammer and makeshift scꦇrewdriver chisel, per the post.

“There’s a cracking sound and the crowd cheers,” “He is free! The urn has been shattered and our hero emerges unscathed.”

“He was laughing at first but now he’s starting to get upset,” one X user reported. TheWapplehouse/X
Padgett post-extraction from the urn. Connor Padgett

Unfortunately, the owner’s bank account might not be as lucky. Revelers surmised replacing the urn could cost between , 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,”

Padgett was freed with a hammer and screwdriver. Connor Padgett/Facebook

“He should have to live his life in there like a hermit crab,” X wit, while a 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.