As a “great believer that politicians are human beings and they need to have holidays,” known politician and probable human being David Cameron vacations at Cornwall’s Polzeath Beach with his wife each year, with varying degrees of success. The British Prime Minister and his wife returned again last weekend and inadvertently bodyboarded through a spill of untreated human sewage. A cruel, cruel summer.

The Times reports the sewage was pumped into the water in an overflow after heavy rain Sunday. The Camerons spent about an hour in it on Monday and Tuesday.

Surfers Against Sewage, an organization that exists because of situations exactly like this one, says chillaxing in diluted fecal matter could cause “anything from a small health risk such as skin, eye, ear, or throat infections to much more serious conditions such as E.coli or hepatitis, which can be present within raw sewage.”

But Cameron has taken many, many holidays, and it’s hard to say whether this was the worst of them. Last year, he was stung by a jellyfish and was heard yelping, “ouch, ouch, ouch.” Hmm. Is that worse than swimming in shit?”

Suffice it to say, it’s been a hard life for this man, full of tennis, wine, karaoke, snooker, and accidentally frolicking in poop. One can scarcely imagine.

[Photo of David and Samantha Cameron enjoying a coffee while possibly damp with diluted human fecal mater via Getty Images]