Good week, Bad week

Good week for:

Getting the most out of your one phone call, after the release of an Android app called “I’m Getting Arrested,” which lets users press a single icon to notify friends and family that they’re being hauled off to jail.

Vengeance, after Florida state Rep. Brad Drake proposed that the state’s executions be conducted by electrocution and firing squad instead of lethal injection. Drake said that killers should know they will die violently, rather than by “going to sleep.”

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Holding it in, after Evergreen Park High School in Illinois announced that students would be allowed to leave class to go to the bathroom only three times per semester. Students who need to pee more often will have to make up class time after school.

Bad week for:

Sportsmanship, after Chollapat Itthi-Aree of Thailand accused his opponent at the World Scrabble Championship of hiding a missing G tile and demanded that he be strip-searched. Officials denied the demand, and his opponent won the game by one point.

Tradition, after Ireland ended the 350-year-old practice of requiring judges to wear British-style white wigs in court. The decision will save the cash-strapped government about $3,000 a wig.

Getting lost on purpose, after a family in Danvers, Mass., had to call 911 when they couldn’t find their way out of a seven-acre corn maze. “I’m really scared. It’s really dark, and we’ve got a 3-week-old baby with us,” said the mom who made the call. “We thought this would be fun.”