LOL. (The sidebar blurb was particularly hilarious.)

The Onion's satire was reported by two newspapers as real news.

broken link....

It's working for me.

Nope- the top link is broken. Checked it twice.

It was 2006. Maybe it's just gone.

In this case, it's sort of understandable. The Onion is really good at writing the craziest stuff in a journalistic style and the subject matter is merely implausible rather than flat-out absurd. Certainly not as bad as when a Chinese paper ran an Onion story about Congress demanding a new Capitol with a retractible dome or they would move to another city (being a parody of news stories about sports teams threatening to move if they didn't get a new stadium on the city's dime).