[Omah]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/21519129

Television presenter Ben Fogle has spoken of his anger after someone spiked his drink in a pub with an unknown drug.

He says it happened last Friday while he and his family were seeing friends.

The adventurer says he was putting his children to bed after drinking at a pub in Gloucestershire when he "flipped".

He tweeted: "Whoever spiked my drink with mind altering drugs and put me in A&E with a psychotic fit. Did you think of the damage you would cause?"

Ben Fogle, 39, says he tried to jump out of a window and had to be restrained by his wife.

The Countryfile presenter first became famous on the BBC reality show Castaway in 2000.

He has since travelled to many countries presenting programmes including a documentary on Princes William and Harry on their first joint royal tour in Africa in 2010.

Ben Fogle filmed On Thin Ice in 2009 for the BBC He says he has never taken recreational drugs and felt like he was having an "out of body experience".

Ben Fogle's wife Marina and the couple's friends say they managed to lock him in a room while they waited for an ambulance to arrive.

He was then taken to hospital, sedated and kept in overnight.

The presenter has described how he spent days afterwards worrying that he was "going crazy".

He says test results have since come back showing that there was no neurological cause and that doctors believe the incident was due to LSD or a similar drug.

I empathise with his distress - it happened to me once and, like his behaviour, mine scared those around me - luckily, depite "playing" with traffic and pavements, I made it home safely and slept off the effects, although the following day (afternoon) I awoke on the bedroom floor, naked, shivering, confused and covered in cuts and bruises from head to toe - it took days to piece together some remnants of what had happened and what I'd got up to while "under the influence".

[Suze]

That must have been awful, Omah. It must be so easy to do to others though, especially in a crowded enviroment.

[bbfan1991]

How awful. I hope he is OK.

[Omah]

Originally Posted by Suze

That must have been awful, Omah. It must be so easy to do to others though, especially in a crowded enviroment.

Yeah, I spotted nothing but noticed that after just 3 pints I was quite unsteady (not usual for me) as I left the pub to go to a party - too late!

By the time I got to the party (a short walk), I was "outta my head" .....

[AnnieK]

Spiking people's drinks always bugged me- what do the people who do it get out of it? Whywould they buy drugs and put them in someone else's drink? How stupid are people? If you want to buy drugs and take them fine but what kick do you get? what if the person has a serious adverse reaction, needs hospitalising and the hospital have no clue what they have taken?? Crazy fools....

[Suze]

Originally Posted by anniek76

Spiking people's drinks always bugged me- what do the people who do it get out of it? Whywould they buy drugs and put them in someone else's drink? How stupid are people? If you want to buy drugs and take them fine but what kick do you get? what if the person has a serious adverse reaction, needs hospitalising and the hospital have no clue what they have taken?? Crazy fools....

I do wonder if it is not so much a buyer than a pusher a lot of the time, after all they must hang out in certain places, and can probably afford to use some of their merchandise if they see it as a way to get some addicted to stuff. I am probably wrong in that assumption though, as I know extremelly little about drugs and their effects apart from what I read now and then. I suppose also some stupid idiots might harbour a grudge against someone, and decide that spiking their drink is a way to get back at them without actually having to lay a finger on them. It is just a bl**dy stupid thing to do to anyone in the first place though.

[MTVN]

One of my friends had it happen to him quite recently and had a similar experience, apparently it happens a lot more than people often think. It's strange people would do it to him while having a couple of drinks at a country pub in Gloucestershire though

Originally Posted by Omah

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I empathise with his distress - it happened to me once and, like his behaviour, mine scared those around me - luckily, depite "playing" with traffic and pavements, I made it home safely and slept off the effects, although the following day (afternoon) I awoke on the bedroom floor, naked, shivering, confused and covered in cuts and bruises from head to toe - it took days to piece together some remnants of what had happened and what I'd got up to while "under the influence".

I know we have our differences, but that can't have been nice.