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The sightless, after a Canadian publisher launched a pornographic magazine aimed at blind people, with explicit Braille text and raised pictures of naked men and women. “The blind have been left out in a culture saturated with sexual images,” said book author Lisa Murphy.

Beating the system, after a Florida woman beat a ticket for running a red light when her husband, using a stopwatch, found that the yellow light at the intersection lasted an average of only 3.8 seconds—not the required 4.5 seconds.

Revenge, after 17-year-old Vinnie Huntington of Durham, Maine, sat down to a steak carved from a bull that had gored him on his family’s farm. “I’m going to enjoy it, too,” he said.

Bad week for:

Arteries, after KFC began selling a meal consisting of bacon, cheese, and mayonnaise sandwiched between two deep-fried chicken breasts. A public-health activist called the sandwich “potentially lethal.”

Chutzpah, after surveillance cameras captured clear pictures of a man wearing a bright blue yarmulke as he robbed a bank in Darien, Conn.

Mayor Noel Atkins of Worthing, England, who along with his wife fell asleep only a few minutes into a musical performance by a class of 11-year-olds, causing the kids to burst into tears. The mayor blamed a cold medication for making him and his wife sleepy.