The reporter was so dumbfounded that he forgot how to spell in a few cases. It just goes to prove that when a human asks 'Why?', the human answers "Because we can."
Or because we're drunk. 'We' being drunk Britons, of course. If all I did was eat thorny plants when I was drunk, I think I'd be better off.
Wouldn't a diet of stinging nettles pretty much guarantee some really brutal infections due to all the irritation going on in the digestive tract?