Trying to block a car’s exhaust pipe is never a good idea. Just ask this guy.

Filmed somewhere in Russia, the short clip shows the moment a man blocks the exhaust of an Alfa Romeo with a handful of rags.

He then gets his friend to rev the car and just as you’d expect, it doesn’t go well. After less than a second, dangerous smoke begins to hit the man in the face and shortly after, the built-up pressure becomes too much to hold back. The man’s face is then completely covered in a thick plume of soot, leaving him completely unrecognizable and surely wiping off a few years of his life.

Even after all we’ve seen, the lengths people are willing to go to achieve internet fame never ceases to amaze.

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