In those pre-mass communication days without so much as even a radio or TV, much less the Internet, you had to make your own fun. And on that fateful August day in 410 CE, Al and his fellow Visigoth pals had themselves a stone gas! Nothing like putting the world’s capital to the sack to brighten your day. Incidentally, his teeth are dingy because real barbarians don’t care squat about proper dental hygiene.