BBC Correspondent Gets Contact High While Reporting Next to Burning Heroin—Watch the Funny Clip!

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BBC's Middle East correspondent Quentin Sommerville got more than he bargained for when he signed up for this assignment.

While reporting on a huge drug bust in Afghanistan, Sommerville found himself giggling like a little school girl—but not because anything he was reporting on was particularly funny. Nope, Quentin was (as he later admitted) high! He accidentally got a contact high while doing his standup because he was standing next to a burning pile of heroin, opium and hash.

Yikes!

Although he was obviously in a dangerous setting, Sommervile's bursts of laughter show that no reporters were harmed during the making of this video (LOL).

"Burning behind me is eight-and-a-half tons of heroin, opium, hashish and other narcotics," Sommervillle begins to say, before falling into a fit of giggles. "Burning behind me…" he begins a second take before again collapsing into laughter.

On Monday, Sommerville tweeted and then deleted a link to the video, with the line, "Dear tweeps, it's been a year of bullets & bloodshed. You've earned a xmas laugh, at my expense."

The BBC later told the U.K. Telegraph that, "The video of Quentin corpsing [slang for collapsing into laughter], 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."

Thanks for the corpsing, Quentin.