This is why you should never try and balance on a compost bin

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Sam Haysom
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This is why you should never try and balance on a compost bin
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When you're trying to reach high up places in your garden, it's a good idea to use something solid and secure. A step ladder, ideally. Maybe a chair.

Not a compost bin.

"I was standing on it to clean the roof," explains the glum-faced man in the video, before desperately trying to work out how he's going to extricate himself from his plastic green prison.

His family, meanwhile, are laughing too hard to be of much help.


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Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.


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