Thankfully, that horrible article I blogged about below DID turn out to be a hoax, but people aren't taking it lightly. Because the site requires a free registration, I'll just point out that the owners of the Wrigley Mansion where this decadent feast supposedly took place, have received a flood of angry phone calls and emails.
I'm just relieved that no matter how elaborate and disgusting the story was - it's a fake. It's also stretching it quite a bit to call it "satire".
Hawkins says the e-mails were alarming enough to file a police report. But for now, the concern is how the fake story is hurting business.
"When you end up getting concerns and phone calls like that and business is not returning ... then we call you," Hawkins said.
I did speak to the reporter who wrote the article and to the editor for the New Times. They both told me the same thing on the telephone, "Look, we are an alternative news paper and we're here to entertain people."
And according to legal experts, satire is covered under the first amendment.
I'm all for satire, but hurting someone's livelihood is extreme.