— In July, the Utah Supreme Court ordered a new trial for Erik Low, now 40, ruling that a jury should have considered the possibility of a lesser crime than manslaughter in the 2003 shooting death of a man who had just 15 seconds earlier during a fight given Low what was described as a violent wedgie.

— In June, a 20-year-old window cleaner on Australia’s Gold Coast survived a nine-story plunge, suffering only a broken arm and, from falling on his harness, a super wedgie.

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