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May 22, 2019

Why You Shouldn’t Attempt A Backflip At Your Graduation Ceremony [Video]

Graduation ceremonies often feature people looking to grab 15 minutes in the limelight. This guy has managed that for all the wrong reasons.

Yet more proof that having a tertiary education doesn’t necessarily mean you’re going to make solid life choices.

In what was probably a desperate attempt to go viral and enjoy his 15 minutes of fame, a graduating member of Texas’ El Paso Community College class attempted to exhibit his athletic prowess during the capping ceremony.

Spoiler alert – that didn’t exactly go according to plan, and now that 15 minutes of fame is more like 15 minutes of shame.

Wait for it, wait for it, and there it is:

We just hope that the young man’s neck is OK, because he didn’t nail that landing.

Should have learnt his lesson from Robert Jeffrey Blank back in 2014, whose attempt ended similarly:

[source:mashable]