SALEM -- A Salem woman’s fall at work is spreading quickly on the Internet, despite her angst over the whole experience.

Online, some people are calling it the funniest video they’ve ever seen.

But Jessica Smith said it was anything but funny to her.

She was at her office when the surveillance camera caught her on tape tripping and falling, which resulted in a badly sprained ankle.

Then, she sent the video to her stepdad and from there, the video went global on the World Wide Web, without her even knowing it.

“When I first found it, it was right literally on the second spot on this [most popular video] page," she told KGW.

Smith said the fall was extremely painful but online, it’s being called “the funniest video of the year” and it’s already been seen by more than 500,000 people.

“I didn't even know it was there until hundreds of thousands of people had already seen it by then," she said. "It just goes to show, one little thing of sending it to someone you think you can trust, it's free game for anybody, I guess."

Smith has contacted every Web site that she knows is hosting the video and asked them to take it down. But for the most part, she’s had little response.

Now she’s using the video herself to help others learn from her mistake.

“No matter how much we want people to be good and kindhearted, in this day and age it doesn't happen,” she said.

Smith doesn’t have a copyright on the material, so she has very little power over where it ends up. Once the video was e-mailed to those who posted it, it became their property and the Web sites are under no legal obligation to remove it.