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Showing some leg, after male train workers in Sweden circumvented a ban on wearing shorts by donning skirts instead. Males can wear garments allowed in the women’s dress code, a spokesman said, because “to say anything else would be discrimination.”

Catching the big one, after a 300-pound, 8-foot-long mako shark jumped into a small fishing boat off the Jersey Shore, and then chewed up two brooms, speakers, and other items while two fishermen cowered in the back. “This thing is going to eat us,” Tom Rostron said he had thought before finally subduing his catch.

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Beginner’s luck, after Wesley Carrington of the U.K. discovered a haul of Roman coins worth $156,000 buried in the woods just 20 minutes after buying his first metal detector.

Bad week for:

Naps, after a German bank employee dozed off on his keyboard’s “2” and turned a transfer of 64.2 euros into a transfer of 222,222,222.22 euros—$293 million. The error was later rectified.

Egyptian actresses, after a TV channel in Cairo filmed a men-only soap opera, to avoid showing any mixing of the sexes during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. “We’re making art and drama without angering God,” said director Wagdy El-Araby.

Drinking on the job, after an alleged burglar’s decision to knock back a couple of beers during a break-in led to his arrest. Moses Wilson, 29, was allegedly stealing copper piping from an upstate New York home when he drank some beer he found in the basement. Police later traced DNA left on the cans to Wilson.