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Good week for:

Technicalities, after a Romanian traffic officer pulled over a completely naked woman riding on the back of a motorcycle, and ticketed her for the only violation under his authority—failing to wear a helmet. Still naked, she and the driver then roared off.

Herman Melville, after Russian scientists launched an expedition to track down an all-white killer whale spotted and filmed off the country’s northern Pacific coast. It’s the first all-white orca ever seen.

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Jiroemon Kimura, the world’s oldest living man, after he celebrated his 115th birthday with four generations of his family at his home in Kyoto, Japan. “I’m delighted beyond words,” he said.

Bad week for:

Tempting fate, after a woman eating a massive “Double Bypass” burger at the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas suffered an apparent heart attack and was rushed to the hospital. Just three months ago, a man dining there also suffered a nonfatal coronary.

Kurt Aaron, a weatherman at a Scranton, Pa., TV station, after his live outdoor forecast was interrupted by a mama black bear and three cubs emerging from foliage 10 feet away. “I ran like I stole something, I’m not going to lie,” said Aaron.

Mockery, after Kazakhstan announced that Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat character had made the country a tourist mecca, despite his portrayal of the country as backward and anti-Semitic. After the film came out, said Foreign Minister Yerzhan Kazykhanov, “the number of visas issued by Kazakhstan grew tenfold.”