Take a break and spare a thought for this truly awful hoverboard stuntman

Ouch.

SOMETIMES THINGS SEEM like a good idea until your head is planted in the concrete and everyone around you is laughing.

It’s kind of hard to figure out exactly what trick this guy was planning, but it definitely wasn’t this.

It starts to go wrong pretty soon into the trick and ends in a pretty spectacular blaze of failure.

There’s a few different versions of the clip flying around on Youtube so it’s difficult to know where it came from but it’s started to go viral in the last 24 hours.

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