Inspired by the show Jackass, a group of drunken men clearly ignored its ‘don’t try this at home’ warning when they decided to chug live pet fish along with their beer.

But their inebriated homage ended in the ED when they graduated from goldfish to a bronze catfish, which didn’t take kindly to being one man’s nightcap.

The 28-year-old, who had also taken MDMA, swallowed the fish from the home aquarium with his alcoholic beverage, according to the journal Acta Oto-Laryngologica Case Reports.

Reacting, well, like a fish out of water and instead in a man’s throat, the creature defensively erected and locked the spines of its pectoral fins, firmly lodging itself in his hypopharynx.