Dispensary Corner

IN WHAT could be regarded as a practical demonstration of irony, a young boy has been injured during a motorbike fundraiser which aimed to help pay for his hospital bills.

The benefit saw scores of riders take to the streets of the town of Manhattan in Kansas, in order to raise money for Corbyn Jensen who has undergone multiple surgeries in recent months after suffering a burst appendix.

Jensen was riding pillion on a motorcycle driven by his stepfather, Robert Adams, when it was involved in a crash with a car.

The pair were taken to a local hospital and later transferred to a bigger facility in Kansas City, with the boy released a day later.

The fundraiser has now been expanded to also help pay the medical bills of the boy’s stepfather, who remains in hospital after needing surgery as a result of the accident.

THERE’S no doubt that smoking kills - but not necessarily quickly.

A 114-year-old South African man says he wants to quit, but can’t summon the willpower.

Fredie Blom from Cape Town was born in 1904, and still smokes two to three cigarettes a day that he rolls himself by wrapping tobacco in newspaper.

“The urge to smoke is so strong...sometimes I tell myself I’m going to stop but it’s just me lying to myself,” he told the BBC.

Blom turned 114 on 08 May, with some reports saying he’s now the world’s oldest man.

He’s been married for 48 years to wife Janetta, a relative spring chicken who is aged just 85.