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August 14, 2005
Criminals do stupid things all the time, but what happened during a bank robbery in Columbus, Mississippi might take the top prize for the week. Terrell Green, 26, of Jackson, Mississippi was charged robbing the local Trustmark Bank.
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July 25, 2005
Four Boy Scout leaders were killed in a freak electrocution accident, late Monday afternoon, during the opening ceremony of the Boy Scouts of America's annual Jamboree. One other leader and a contract worker were injured and are listed in stable condition at a local hospital.
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May 28, 2005
Customs agents inspecting a shipment of plantains thought some of the green bananas seemed unusually hard and cut them open, finding more than 750 pounds of cocaine stuffed inside what turned out to be phony fruit. Smugglers molded the plantains out of glass fiber, filled them with cocaine and painted them to look like the real fruit, a large, green member of the banana family popular in the Caribbean and Latin America.
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May 23, 2005
In January, Larry Green was hit by a car as he returned home from a grocery store. When he was examined at the scene, paramedics and a medical examiner declared him dead and his body was taken to a morgue. Two hours after the accident, the same medical examiner discovered Green was in fact still alive. Green was hospitalized for two months after suffering a severe head injury, a broken leg, and several other injuries.
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May 3, 2005
An Australian woman has invented a 3-step toilet training system for cats called the "Litter-Kwitter. " Jo Lapidge successfully taught her family's Burmese cat, Doogal, to use the toilet. The Litter-Kwitter starts with a red toilet seat-shaped disc filled with cat litter and sitting on the floor next to the toilet, like a normal tray. Next the red disc is placed on the toilet so the cat can get used to jumping up onto the seat.
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