A few years back, BBC reporter Quentin Sommerville found himself reporting on a massive pile of drugs burning in the Afghan desert. Unsurprisingly, he also found himself high as a kite as he inhaled the fumes of more than "8½ tons of heroin, opium, hashish and other narcotics."
And it's all on video. He tries to keep a straight face while delivering his report, but quickly starts giggling uncontrollably.
"Quick, quick we just need one more!" Sommerville says in the video as he tries to regain his composure. But it's no use -- before he can even say another word he is in a fit of laughter.
Sommerville posted the video titled "Don't Inhale" for his Twitter followers on Monday, saying "Dear tweeps, it's been a year of bullets & bloodshed. You've earned a xmas laugh, at my expense." He later deleted the tweet due to copyright issues. The Internet though, it never forgets, and copies of the video have since appeared online.
A BBC spokesperson told the The Telegraph the video of Quentin "corpsing" (broadcast slang for laughing on air) was never before seen.
"The video of Quentin corpsing, which has now been deleted, was posted in the spirit of a blooper. It was filmed four years ago - it hasn't been seen before and was never broadcast."
And what a blooper it is. Sommerville is will now go down in Internet history as the brave man who found a way to get high job, and will likely spawn all kinds of gifs and memes. As it should be.
And if you do ever find yourself standing next to a gigantic pile of burning narcotics in the Middle-East, take Sommerville's adivce:
Always be careful where you stand during an afghan drugs bust :) @sheeraf
— Quentin Sommerville (@sommervillebbc) December 23, 2014
