Young man claws at the mask but is unable to take it off
He can be heard whimpering but his companions just laugh at him
Frustratingly the video ends before we find out what happened
Young man claws at the mask but is unable to take it off
He can be heard whimpering but his companions just laugh at him
Frustratingly the video ends before we find out what happened
There's plaster in your eyes, nose and mouth and you're struggling to breath.
It's the stuff of nightmares, right?
For one man in America this became a horrible reality after an art class activity went wrong and his plaster face mask became stuck.
He can be seen with his hands clasped to the mask, trying to remove it as others give him advice.
'Stretch your face into different facial expressions,' one lady says but he can be heard whimpering quietly behind the white plaster.
His companions chortle at the moaning but one imagines it's far from a laughing matter for the poor man.
To add to the humor of course is that the mask makes him seem like a figure from a Greek tragedy. He appears completely expressionless but no doubt is writhing with frustration underneath.
From the noises he is making one presumes he is trying to prise the mask off but to an external viewer it simply seems he is pressing his hands to his face as a 'shocked' theatrical character would.
'You've almost got it,' a girl encourages, but another man is more realistic: 'Pull hard! It's not even moving dude.'
'It's like pulling a band aid,' the first lady soothes as she moves forward to help him, 'Pull your skin away from the mask.'
But no matter what technique the man tries the mask will not budge.
He claws at the top, the bottom and the side - all to no avail.
The woman too attempts to pull the mask off but can be heard saying, 'Oh no I broke it' as the video comes to an end.
Frustratingly we are never shown the final result of the saga and whether the mask eventually came off, but creative Facebook users have come up with their own suggestions.
Endings include: 'There is a rumor he is still stuck under that mask'; 'His skin came off with the mask'; 'That's the end. He now eats through a straw' and 'He was offered a two million dollar contract from Vogue and a time slot on mtv for his own reality show'.
Many have also pointed out that the man should have applied Vaseline under the mask to avoid this predicament.