What do you do when your mate drops his fat bike on an electric fence? Well, in the age of social media, you grab your phone, start recording and yell: “Go on Paul, get your bike off that electric fence…it’s only a little electric, you’re a welder!”

What follows is three minutes of comedy gold, as these weekend warriors attempt to recover their mountain bike from the juiced jaws of the farmer’s fence.

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OK, so I’m a little bit late to the game on this one; the video was originally uploaded to YouTube over two years ago but a friend showed it to me yesterday, after a game of garden table tennis, and it’s so funny, I had to post it.

Disclaimer: No fat bikes were harmed in the posting of this video.