Good week, Bad week

Good week for:

Hope, after a study by CareerBuilder found that 69 percent of full-time workers regularly search for new jobs.

Seeing ghosts, after Gilberto Araujo of Alagoinhas, Brazil, showed up at his own funeral, causing several mourners to faint. His family had mistakenly identified a different body at the morgue as his. “I said, ‘Guys, I’m alive, pinch me,’” Araujo said.

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Signs from above, after a meteor struck the California home of Kent Webber, pastor of a Presbyterian church. “It’s like the heavens coming down,” said the pastor’s wife, Lisa. “How cool is that?”

Bad week for:

Ingratitude, after police in Syracuse, N.Y., arrested 28-year-old Arthur Bundrage when he returned to a bank he allegedly had just robbed. Bundrage wanted to complain that he wasn’t given the entire $20,000 he had demanded.

Taking the kids to the movies, after children and parents fled in shock when a British movie theater accidentally screened Paranormal Activity 4, a horror movie, instead of a kiddie flick. “It was only about two minutes’ worth of the film, but it was enough to scar them for life,” said parent Natasha Lewis.

The literal minded, after a caller named Donna complained to a North Dakota radio station about the placement of “deer crossing” signs on busy roads, saying that they should direct deer to cross in less traveled areas. After a few days of public mockery, Donna received a callback from the radio station. “I feel so stupid,” she said. “I had no clue that these signs are for us.”