Dang... you got me again.
This one got me too... But I submit that sometimes these stories from that site are more of a hoax than satire. Shouldn’t satire should be humorous in some way? This reads like a perfectly believable news story that just happens not not be strictly true. The chuckle you experince when you realize you have been had is a “pranked” chuckle, not a satire chuckle.