Good week, Bad week

Good week for:

Momo, a 6-pound Chihuahua who was selected by a Japanese prefecture as a police dog, after she passed a search-and-rescue test. Momo is the world’s first Chihuahua to serve as a police dog.

The entrepreneurial spirit, after 17-year-old Fei Lam, of Queens, N.Y., made more than $130,000 selling kits to convert black iPhone 4’s into white ones. He recognized that Apple fans were sick of waiting for Apple to release a white iPhone4.

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Bypassing TSA scanners, after a New Zealand aviation company said it was nearing release of a truly usable personal jetpack requiring minimal training and no pilot’s license. It’s expected to sell for about $100,000.

Bad week for:

Bristol Palin, who finished third in the finale of Dancing With the Stars. Before the final vote, Bristol had said that winning the competition “would be like a big middle finger to all the people out there that hate my mom and hate me.”

Travis Pittman, of Des Moines, Wash., who dropped his engagement ring into Puget Sound while proposing to his girlfriend on a pier. “I shudder to think that I may be engaged to a salmon,” said Pittman, whose fiancée accepted anyway.

Brian ‘Goat Man’ Hopper of Encino, Calif., who was stranded on a tiny desert island off the coast when his inflatable raft sprang a leak. Hopper spent five days there, subsisting on plants and vitamins, before he gave in and used his cell phone to call for help. “I was embarrassed,” he explained.