When watching a trapeze or circus act, you know somewhere in the back of your head that there’s a chance that someone could fall.

Thankfully, falls like these are rare, as circus performers generally do a decent amount of training before they attempt a stunt. However, that doesn’t mean that things always go according to plan, as this trapeze artist’s failure shows.

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