Transportation
Which U.S. City Had the Best April Fool's Prank?
Etsy acquired the city of Portland; Boulder's electric company cut off service for residents who voted against it; Philadelphia unveiled a pedestrian lane for distracted texters.
It's hard to call a winner this year among the handful of U.S. cities that deployed novel, well-crafted pranks on April 1.
We can begin by eliminating this fake school shooting in Roseville, California, the result of a phone call from a "30-year-old autistic man from Virginia." Haw haw, someone just wound up on the no-fly list!