Good week, Bad week

Good week for:

Memorabilia collectors, after a Craigslist seller offered a giant steel slab formed in the shape of Iowa and engraved with the words, “Romney: Believe in America.” Anyone who will haul away the 300-pound campaign prop, the seller said, can have it for free.

Going to confession, after the pastor of St. Aloysius Church in Springfield, Ill., called 911, saying that he was stuck in a pair of handcuffs he’d been “playing with.” When police arrived, they say, they also found Father Tom Donovan wearing a gag.

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Finding the right bar, after a Minneapolis man who’d been shot six times stumbled into a bar that happened to be packed with off-duty nurses. Six medics used bar towels to apply pressure to the bullet wounds, saving the man’s life. “I love you guys,’’ he said.

Bad week for:

Dave Schneider, a rock-band guitarist, who was forced by airline staffers to check his $10,000 vintage Gibson guitar into baggage before a flight. After the plane landed, Schneider watched as the guitar got caught in the baggage machine and was crushed.

Internet addictions, after a 15-year-old California girl evaded her family’s 10 p.m. Internet curfew by allegedly drugging her parents with sleeping-pill-laced milkshakes. After her folks woke up with horrific hangovers, they called the police and she was arrested.

Air rage, after a drunken airline passenger went on a violent rampage and was duct-taped to his seat to shut him up. Of the passenger, Gudmundur Arthorsson, 46, a relative said, “Gudmundur likes to drink, but his behavior has the family scratching their heads.”