Good week, Bad week

Good week for:

The 1 percent, after three asset managers from Greenwich, Conn., won a $254 million Powerball lottery jackpot. The three men immediately formed a trust to manage their winnings.

The French, after Congress lifted a five-year ban on slaughtering horses for meat in the U.S. A study found that live horses were simply being exported to slaughterhouses abroad, where horse meat is considered a delicacy.

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Haiku, after New York City began using the 17-syllable, Japanese verse form to deliver safety warnings to distracted pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers. One example: A sudden car door/ Cyclist’s story rewritten/ Fractured narrative.

Bad week for:

Nick Novak, the San Diego Chargers’ kicker, after a TV camera caught him urinating on the sidelines while preparing to kick a critical field goal. Novak missed the field goal, and his team lost.

Trying to save a few bucks, after a Texas man who was locked out of his house tried to enter via the chimney, to save the expense of calling a locksmith. “Even if you would fit down the chimney flue, I can’t see anybody getting past the damper assembly,” said a fire marshal, after firefighters hauled the man out.

Never growing up, after Angelo Mosca and Joe Kapp, two 73-year-old former Canadian Football League players, got into a fistfight on stage during a promotional event. They have a feud going back to 1963. “What do you want me to do—turn the other cheek?” asked Kapp, after knocking Mosca off the stage.