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January 9, 2006
Topics cow, train, police, chase, metal, chicken, led, cars, gun, black, game, bank, animal and water
After a six hour chase that included dodging cars, a game of chicken with a train, and a dip in the icy Missouri River, an escaped cow was recaptured with three tranquilizer darts. The black, 1,200-pound heifer jumped a gate at a slaughterhouse at around 5 a. m. Thursday.
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January 8, 2006
A Canadian man was upset when his bank began outsourcing some of its credit card processing to the United States. So, he got revenge by making dozens of tiny online payments a day, effectively jamming the bank's computers, reports Reuters
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January 8, 2006
A $20 bill mysteriously printed on top of an ordinary fruit sticker sold Friday for $25,300, an auction company official said. The flawed note bears a red, green and yellow Del Monte sticker next to Andrew Jackson's portrait. The buyer at the Orlando, Fla. , auction did not want to be identified. The 1996 bill originated at a U. S. Treasury Department printing facility in Fort Worth, Texas, but how the fruit tag found its way onto the paper of the greenback is unknown.
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January 6, 2006
A Canadian man was upset when his bank began outsourcing some of its credit card processing to the United States. So, he got revenge by making dozens of tiny online payments a day, effectively jamming the bank's computers, reports Reuters
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January 6, 2006
Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity. Arlie Bichlmeier decide to decorate his car with a personalized license plate that read, "FINDME," which is exactly what cops did about 90 minutes after he tried to rob the local Security National Bank on Wednesday.
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