BBC Reporter Gets Instantly High While Reporting on 8.5 Tons of Burning Narcotics

‘Burning behind me is eight-and-a-half tons of heroin, opium, hashish and other narcotics ...’

BBC's Quentin Sommerville laughs uncontrollably as he attempts to report on burning drugs (The Telegraph)

He has braved gunfire to report from some of the world’s most treacherous regions. But now the BBC’s Quentin Sommerville has revealed how he fell victim to an unexpected hazard: a pile of burning narcotics.

In a video posted online on Monday, entitled “Don’t Inhale”, the BBC’s Middle East Correspondent appears to be getting high on the burning drugs as he tries and repeatedly fails to deliver his lines to camera before collapsing into laughter.

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