To be honest, I should make this a weekly feature of The Fives. The amount of fascinating nonlocal video that goes up on www.rapidcityjournal.com that readers never see because it isn't on the home page is significant.

Even when you click on the "view all" button below the primary video, it can be hard to sift through most of it if you don't know what your looking for. But there are certainly some hidden gems among the stream of daily AP videos that come in each day.

Much of it is the leading stories of the day. Politics, banking disasters, the big games and other topics of high interest are there, but in some ways, they are simply taking up space.

I mean, nothing against AP Top Stories - a rundown of the big events of the past day or so - but would you rather watch that and become a better informed, more intelligent person or would you rather see raw video from a Spanish bull fight or a police chase gone awry.

Oh, you may say the former in the company of friends and colleagues, but I've seen the Web stats.

Luckily, there is a world where the two meet, and it is generally on the www.rapidcityjournal video page. I mean, I would likely pay good money to see a bunch of monks battle it out over the location where it is believed Jesus was buried and then rose from the dead long before I would even consider paying to watch Kimbo Slice. And on the Journal video page, it's for free.

Anyway, here is my five favorite videos of the past week that, although not generally considered "top news," it certainly does a fine job of drawing in readers.

1. Monks brawl at Christian holy site in Jerusalem

Israeli police rushed into one of Christianity's holiest churches Sunday and arrested two clergyman after an argument between monks erupted into a brawl next to the site of Jesus' tomb.

As advertised, my favorite video of the week by far is this one that featured feuding sects at the site where Jesus was buried. And mind you, it wasn't just the PG-13 for violence tag that makes it one of the best offerings of the past few days. (Although, I must admit, the battle-scarred monk who gives a blow by blow account of how he obtained his facial laceration is intriguing and well worth watching).

Perhaps the most interesting part of this news video is the extended explanation of the history of the holy site and how a variety of religious sects refuse to work with one another to protect and make safe the holy shrine. Heck, they can't even agree on where to put a much needed fire exit.

Something tells me that Jesus would have some stiff words for them all.

2. Teen compacted in garbage truck

A Milwaukee teen survived after he was accidentally dumped into the back of a recycling truck and compacted.

First thing, how can you not watch or read something that has that headline? I mean, beyond the morbid attraction on whether to find out what happened to the kid, well … you gotta find out what happened to the kid.

Some of you may remember a few years back when Rapid City nearly had its own version of the story when a trash collector picked up one of these bins but stopped short of compacting a person who had been sleeping in the bin. But in this case, the teen was compacted several times.

The video itself may not have any dramatic shots, but the interview with the police officer who labeled the Milwaukee teen "very, very, very lucky" to have survived is well worth watching. I believe he probably should have added a few very's to accurately reflect the situation.

3. Couple Killed Over College Football Game

Witnesses said a man and his former wife were shot to death over an argument about the Alabama Louisiana State University football game, though a spokesman for the slain man's family disputes that.

I believe after this video went out, the folks at the Alabama Department of Tourism probably broke down and cried.

A lot.

A college football rivalry between neighbors in Alabama turned fatal when a man named Michael Williams (no relation) shot and killed two people over an argument after Saturday's thrilling overtime game between LSU and Alabama.

Once again, law enforcement plays a starring role in this video, with Conecuh County Sheriff Edwin Booker offering up in no uncertain terms that he wasn't surprised that a college football game led to the shooting deaths of two people. At least he offers up that he "thinks there's more to it than a football game," but it is beyond comprehension that a college sports rivalry led to something so tragic.

As far as how it makes Alabama look, I don't know if the footage of a superimposed image of Hank Williams Jr. over a Confederate flag in a window of his trailer home is better or worse than beer bottles littering the suspect's lawn.

4. Migrants turn to cannibalism to survive

A group of migrants from the Dominican Republic who were drifting out to sea resorted to cannibalism in order to survive, according to one of the survivors who was rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard.

OK, I might have ranked this one a bit higher, but I realize that a lot of you are probably eating breakfast or catching up and reading this just before lunch, so I tried to get it a bit lower on the page.

These kind of tales of the extent people will go to survive in dire circumstances are difficult to fathom but are engrossing. Lost on a wooden boat adrift at sea for weeks, the survivors of a Haitian boat trip say they had to eat others who had succumbed to dehydration for survival as they feared their own deaths from hunger and dehydration themselves.

Obviously a horrific ordeal for those that lived, it is probably made even more difficult to deal with is that they were rescued last Saturday, only one day after they began eating the dead.

5. Raw video: Volcano erupts in Ecuador

Lava was rising anew in the crater of Ecuador's Reventador volcano on Monday, a day after bursts of ash forced temporary closure of the capital's airport.

Not much of a story here, but ever since I was a young boy and had an uncle that lived in Hawaii for a time, I've been fascinated by volcanoes and their majestic beauty and violent force.

This one isn't in Hawaii, but being a landlocked South Dakotan, you could have told me it was and I would have believed you.