France has, as we all know, strange laws but then that's because they're French. Or the other way round. The last president of France, Jacques Chirac, whom Christopher Hitchens called "the rat that soared" and he was being kind, was crooked enough to have been an ACORN member.

Since Chirac's retirement he has been keeping company with his wife and their pet poodle, Sumo, and that really is the dog's name, and said canine has been taking pills for depression. The pill-popping poodle.

It seems that Sumo has bitten President Chirac severely enough that he was rushed to a French hospital, to be treated for the bite of a poodle on Prozac.

You can't make this up.