The snooker world was shocked yesterday when Dutch referee Jan Verhaas, who had been in charge of the semi-final between Graeme Dott and Mark Selby suddenly screamed, "Why's that waiter holding a stick? Where am I? Who are all these people? Why's that green table covered in coloured balls? What am I doing?"
After the incident, Verhaas ran from The Crucible muttering unintelligible Dutch words and was last seen hitchhiking on the M1 with a sign that read 'AMSTERDAM OR ANYWHERE'.
Snooker fan Maisy Gorm, who had been avidly sleeping during the match said, "He looked shaken up, as if he'd seen a ghost or just come off a massive LSD trip."
Verhass, the first foreigner ever to be allowed into a snooker room is renowned for his calm but authoritative refereeing - once ejecting World Champion John Higgins from a match for saying, "Ka-Ching!" under his breath after unusually missing an easy pot.
The Sheffield police refused to comment for free, but it is thought that Verhaas, who was born in drug liberal Holland during the 1960's HAD actually come off of a massive LSD trip and believed he was sitting in an Amsterdam squat during the 1970's, listening to generic rock music, eating cheese and ham toasties and drinking Chocomel.
The genteel façade of the snooker world has recently been rocked with stories of drugs taking, bribery and pointlessness. Six time world champion Steve Davis was imprisoned in 2005 after admitting to having ginger hair during the 1980's and Aussie Quinten Hann was banned from the sport for 8 years after being found guilty of bringing the game into disrepute by coughing without putting his hand over his mouth.
Verhaas was replaced as referee by famed commentator John Virgo, who also has had a history of drug abuse, once drinking up to 5 cups of coffee in one day.
The match was eventually won by one of the players.
