Dispensary Corner

HOW to skirt the rules - around 30 schoolboys at Isca Academy in the southwestern English city of Exeter turned up at school wearing the girls’ uniform of short-sleeved white shirts, school ties plus gray & white plaid skirts in an effort to keep cool.

Britain’s 30°C ͚heatwave’ (which would hardly rate a weather mention in Australia), drove the boys to this desperate behaviour because shorts are not allowed at the school.

According to Yahoo! News, in the western French city of Nantes, male bus drivers reportedly also wore skirts this week to protest the ruling that they were not allowed to wear shorts.

AN AUCKLAND BASED drug-fiend dog has earned the dubious honour being the “strangest claim” for Southern Cross Pet Insurance over the last year, after overdosing (twice) on over-the counter medications.

The cocker spaniel-poodle cross ended up at the vet after scoffing a packet of Sudafed - then after recovering five days later (at a cost of NZ$585) was back again with an ibuprofen overdose.

Another case reported by the insurer saw a miniature schnaunjer hospitalised with “raisin toxicity” after winning a battle with another dog for a packet of hot cross buns - costing the company more than $1,000.