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The right to display your boxers, after a British judge ruled that a local law banning the wearing of trousers below one’s waist violates young men’s human rights. “It’s like they’re trying to change the way I dress,” said Ellis Drummond, 18, who came to court in low-riding sweatpants and black-and-white boxers.

Separating idiots from their money, after some Icelanders began collecting ash spewing from the Eyjafjallajökull volcano and hawking it online. A 5.6-ounce jar of ash sells for around $110.

Duane Jackson, the Times Square handbag vendor who first called attention to a terrorist car bomb. His sales are up 30 percent. “People come by because they’ve seen me on the news,” he said, “and they want to buy something to thank me.”

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Sheep, after the Florida Legislature failed to pass a proposed law banning bestiality, despite pleas from prosecutors and animal-rights activists. Legislators avoid voting on the issue, said Rep. Mary Brandenburg of Palm Beach, because “it is yucky.”

Getting the most for your money, after a roller coaster in a British theme park malfunctioned, leaving a train full of passengers suspended 50 feet off the ground, upside down, for 20 minutes.

Being safe rather than sorry, after a bomb squad in Lake Mary, Fla., detonated a suspicious cardboard box found outside a church, and then discovered it contained $2,500 in cash. Authorities said they would replace the money, which apparently was meant to be a donation to the church.