37-year-old Ben Garnham from Cefn Forest in Wales took his family to the circus earlier this week and was picked out of the crowd to assist the clown in pulling off some tricks.

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Unfortunately, it didn’t really go to plan.

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What were they even going for there? A back flip? Seems simple enough. Good thing those other two people were there to ragdoll his body around afterwards though. Not like he could have had a severe neck injury or anything. That’s first-aid at the circus for you.

Nothing on the madness that goes down at Russian circuses though.