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Webbo

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Red-faced BBC news man gets so high next to stack of burning drugs he can't finish his report - and warns viewers 'Don't inhale!'
 
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An embarrassed BBC reporter struggled to finish his broadcast as he got high after getting too close to a stack of burning drugs.
Quentin Sommerville, the corporation's Middle East correspondent, posted a link to the video on his YouTube page today as a 'Christmas present' to his Twitter followers.
The video, which he called 'Don't inhale', shows the reporter stood next to a huge pile of heroin, opium and hashish, but as he tries to begin his report he can't help but giggle.
He starts the report - filmed at some point in the last 12 months in the Middle East - by saying: ‘Burning behind me is eight and a half tonnes of heroin, opium, hashish and other narcotics.’
The reporter attempts to start his next line but lets out a tiny giggle, setting the cameraman off and both burst out laughing.

He then urges the cameraman to 'come on' and try another take, but this time he struggles to get out the whole sentence, managing just 'burning behind me'. 

And the longer they stand there the harder it becomes as they both fall into fits of a laughter.

'Ssh, quick, we just need one more,' he tells the cameraman but this time his mouth just turns downwards and he can't even get the word out.

 

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2883792/Red-faced-BBC-reporter-Quentin-Sommerville-gets-high-reporting-stack-burning-drugs-warns-viewers-Don-t-inhale.html



 
lavrentis

lavrentis

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Why is it amusing? RT are one of the few media sources that report on this sort of thing.

 

They are protesting about the BBC and RT is recording it as if they have no agenda.

 

I very much doubt there are peado's at the BBC. The TV license debate is a real one though

FoxesAreBlue

FoxesAreBlue

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I already posted that somewhere.Don't think I got a rep though.

Ah apologies if you did Ken, I hadn't seen it.

I use the mobile FT skin so unfortunately I never know if/when I get repped ether!

Webbo

Webbo

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After last weeks revelation that Phil Neville had to ring his wife to ask how to make a cup of instant coffee;

 

As Becks prepared fresh vegetable for a pasta dish, he asked Neville where he'd find a wooden spoon. After a couple of minutes of opening and closing drawers, Neville eventually settled on one cupboard. "It'll be in this one," he said confidently, before opening the door and, to his embarrassment, discovering he had a dishwasher!

Moments later, as they debated if it was effeminate for a footballer to be able to cook, Neville suddenly pointed at the cooker and exclaimed: "Look out Becks, it's on fire."

"Huh?," said Beckham, clearly perplexed, before adding: "That's only the potatoes boiling."

"No, no," insisted Neville. "It's on fire. Look, there. Underneath the pot. What's that?"

"That's the gas flame," Beckham retorted with incredulity.

 

http://www.independent.ie/sport/becks-shows-value-of-nature-over-nurture-26101224.html

Trav Le Bleu

Trav Le Bleu

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-30681476

 

 

Space hopper man caught on dual carriageway

 

Police pulled over a man riding a space hopper through a Dundee underpass in the early hours of New Year's Day.

 

The man was seen trying to bounce his way through the dual carriageway Marketgait underpass, which has no pedestrian footpath, at about 03:00.

 

One witness said the man "looked very drunk" as he was chased down the tunnel by officers.

 

Police Scotland confirmed that the man had been spoken to, but no formal action was taken.

 

Witness Jamie Shankland told BBC Scotland's Newsdrive programme it was a surreal sight.

 

He said: "It was like a scene from the movie The Hangover."

 

Mr Shankland said he stopped his car because a police car was blocking the lane and there was a "commotion".

 

"As I pulled out past the police car I noticed there was a big red balloon on the road," he said.

 

"It wasn't until I passed and saw the two horns on top of it that I noticed it was a space hopper.

 

"I can only assume that the gentleman was space hoppering for some time because there is no path there."

 

Mr Shankland said the man was being questioned by police when he saw him.

 

"You could tell from the sheepish look on his face that he knew he was doing something wrong but he did not know what it was," he said.

 

"He looked very drunk to be honest."

 

Mr Shankland added: "He was coming towards the oncoming cars, he wasn't bouncing away from them, so it could have been a worse story to tell."

 

ozleicester

ozleicester

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On the day that all most were outraged about an attack on free speech... The aussie conservatives take it up a notch.

 

Queensland man arrested after waving next to LNP campaigners in 'I’m with stupid' T-shirt

 

....She said the police response, which reportedly involved three patrol cars and a paddy wagon, was “totally over the top”.

 

 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/08/queensland-man-arrested-waving-lnp-campaigners-im-with-stupid-t-shirt

Rincewind

Rincewind

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Not sure where to put this. It's a letter written by an OAP in America to her bank and he thought it funny enough to have it published.

Don't think it's a picture (too big) so won't copy and paste. Basically She paid someone by cheque and within moments cleared it just before money went into her account meaning she occurred bank charges.(is that enough explanation)

 

http://www.tickld.com/x/woman-sends-bank-angry-letter-after-they-bounced-her-check-this-is-gold

ramboacdc

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Derek Nash, Alex's father: "It was a proper invoice"

A five-year-old boy has been billed for failing to attend a friend's birthday party - resulting in legal action.

Alex Nash, from Cornwall, was invited to the party just before Christmas.

An invoice for £15.95 was sent by his schoolfriend's mother Julie Lawrence, who said Alex's non-attendance left her out of pocket and his parents had her details to tell her he was not going.

Alex's father Derek said he had been told he would be taken to the small claims court for refusing to pay.

'Understand she's upset'

Alex's parents, from Torpoint, had accepted an invitation to the party at a dry ski slope in Plymouth, Devon, just before Christmas.

However, they realised their son was double-booked and due to spend time with his grandparents, which he did.

His parents said they had no contact information for Ms Lawrence at that time.

They found the invoice in a brown envelope in his schoolbag last week.

_80357706_10a21fd3-8c71-43ba-a6aa-9b38e1The invoice lists a "Party No Show" fee

Mr Nash said: "It was a proper invoice with full official details and even her bank details on it.

"I can understand that she's upset about losing money. The money isn't the issue, it's the way she went about trying to get the money from me.

"She didn't treat me like a human being, she treated me like a child and that I should do what she says."

In a short statement, Ms Lawrence said: "All details were on the party invite. They had every detail needed to contact me."

Mr Nash said he had been told he was being taken to the small claims court because he was refusing to pay.

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The unwritten rules of children's parties?
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  • Birthday boy/girl must be given preference for starting activity. Small guests pushing past should be restrained by attending adults
  • Party bags or gifts for each attending child - the children will always remember "that party" when they didn't get one
  • If you don't RSVP don't think you can just turn up. And if you do, don't expect a party bag (see above)
  • Avoid party talk around the parents of the uninvited
  • Host child MUST win at least one round of pass the parcel. Sweets within each layer for everyone else
  • Children must be given 15 minutes at the buffet before adults are allowed to hoover up the cocktail sausages
Jordan

Jordan

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Not sure where to put this. It's a letter written by an OAP in America to her bank and he thought it funny enough to have it published.

Don't think it's a picture (too big) so won't copy and paste. Basically She paid someone by cheque and within moments cleared it just before money went into her account meaning she occurred bank charges.(is that enough explanation)

http://www.tickld.com/x/woman-sends-bank-angry-letter-after-they-bounced-her-check-this-is-gold

I call BS.

1) Knowing the site that hosts your link, and the lack of sources on the page, I can make a reasonable assumption that the letter is a parody, a fake, or a stupid chain email that was copied and pasted.

2) If the customer really write that letter, really did receive her pension via direct deposit, and the DD was scheduled for the same day the payee negotiated the check, the funds would have been made available before she even woke up that morning. There is no way a bank would have been open at a time when the payee could have gone in and negotiated the check before a pension direct deposit credited the maker's account.

3) At the end of a business day, American banks re-tabulate a customer's pending transactions to post credits before debits. So, even if the deposit were to have been made after the check had been negotiated, but made before the bank "cuts over" to the next business day, the pending transactions would then be re-arranged so that it would be as if the deposit were made first. Any overdraft protection transfers or fees, if used, would be reversed, and the customer would not be charged an overdraft fee.

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