One Alabama man recently l-urn-ed a very hard lesson about party tricks, shooting to viral, schadenfreude-fueled infamy after getting trapped inside a decorative urn at his pal’s New Year’s Eve party.


“I am doing everything I f—king can!” wannabe contortionist Connor Padgett could be heard screaming from his possibly porcelain prison as several partygoers crowded around to help. “God d—nit!”



While one of his buddies suggested that stripping down could help him slip from the confines of the urn, Padgett was having none of it.


“My sweater off? I already took my belt off and that didn’t do s—t!” he yelled in reply.



Though the video ended as it began, in a flurry of chaos and (probably drunken) panic, it appears Padgett was ultimately able to escape from the vessel with some DIY tools and a bit of old-fashioned elbow grease.



“My view is obscured by the gathering crowd but I can hear the tinkering of a hammer and makeshift screwdriver chisel, mixed with the frustrated, panicked grunts of the captive,” @CasualThursday, a self-described “freelance party reporter” wrote in one of their several live tweets of the incident.


“There’s a cracking sound and the crowd cheers,” they continued. “He is free! The urn has been shattered and our hero emerges unscathed. Our long national nightmare is over.”



While @CasualThursday speculated that the ultimately busted urn may have been worth anywhere from $300-$500 dollars, the three-figure cost was quickly repaid … in clout, memories and a story Padgett will probably never be able to live down.