YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 10, ARMENPRESS. A U.S. soldier who was going through with a bet to slap a camel on its backside left his comrades in hysterical laughter after he received a hard kick in the side from the animal.

“Armenpress” reports, referring to dailymail.co.uk, that the video shows the soldier, who appears to be named Frank and is in Afghanistan, standing near a Taliban camel before working up enough courage to try and touch it.

Without even getting to as much as stroke the animal, the soldier receives a quick, hard reminder of who is actually boss.

The soldier attempts once to try and touch the camel and on his second attempt receives the blow in his side before falling to the ground as laughter is heard in the background.

'Not as cool as I thought', the soldier says as he kneels over in pain before walking away as his comrades continue laughing.

The video was posted to LiveLeak on Monday and has since been viewed more 87,000 times.