Apparently John Hammer’s Rhino column on the arrest of an elderly couple for taking a picture in a Greensboro city park was satire, although the ordinance itself is real.
The latest online version of Hammer’s column adds the disclaimer “A Greensboro Fairy Tale.” The online version I read earlier did not have that disclaimer, nor does the version in the print edition. And for based on the comments beneath the column, apparently I was not the only one who didn’t get the joke.
Chalk it up to a world where the line between truth and fiction is blurred pretty much on a daily basis.
