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World’s Dumbest College Student Trapped “On Vacation” In Afghanistan

Let me make this abundantly clear-in case this story doesn’t do it for you-just because you’re in college does not mean you are not 100% an idiot!  Meet Miles Routledge…

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Let me make this abundantly clear-in case this story doesn't do it for you-just because you're in college does not mean you are not 100% an idiot!  Meet Miles Routledge (or as he calls himself on social media "Lord Miles).  Miles is a 21-year-old university student in the UK who decided that the best way to spend his summer vacation dollar was to take a week-long trip to Afghanistan.  Then, as the Taliban took over the country, this genius got stuck.

“No more flights in Kabul, I’m stuck in Afghanistan. Bit of a pickle. I was under the impression that the country wouldn’t fall for another month, so I thought it was going to be fine. I thought maybe the worst case would be food poisoning. I hate lying around on a beach so I wanted to do something a little bit different. After graduating I’ll have a full-time job and maybe a family so won’t have the opportunity to do things like this again. I thought [Afghanistan] looked quite nice, the food seemed amazing and it was dirt cheap.”  OMG...if you're this guy's parents, when he gets home, YOU'RE gonna kill him, right?  And I say when he gets home as "Lord Miles" has been evacuated by British troops and has landed in Dubai.

Charlie Nance is the Afternoon Drive co-host (along with his wife) of "The Charlie and Debbie Show" at WSOC, Country 1037 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The couple have been with the radio station since 2006. Charlie has won the prestigious CMA (Country Music Association) Award for Radio Personality of the Year and has been a finalist for the Country Radio Hall of Fame four times. Prior to his time in Charlotte, Charlie (along with Debbie) spent more than a decade hosting successful morning radio shows in Greenville, SC; Augusta, Ga; and Birmingham, Al. As a content creator for Country 1037, Charlie writes about dream lottery windfalls, sports, restaurants and bars, and travel experiences in North and South Carolina.