Wednesday, April 27, 2011

April Fools Comes Late to the Sloop?

It appears that the flyers circulating around the South Loop (specifically in the printers row area) are an elaborate prank. Alderman Fioretti just tweeted:

The flyers recently passed around in Printers Row and the South Loop regarding a proposed fossil fuel power plant are completely false.

Although we don't know who is behind this or what their motivation was, it did generate a chuckle from us (once it was exposed).

It appears that there was also a lengthy discussion on this topic on Yelp.

We also just were sent two pictures of "protesters" at the "proposed site":
This is probably one of the weirdest/funniest/interesting posts we've done on Sloopin. Is this simply a prank? Is this a PR stunt to bring awareness to fossil fuels? Is this insignificant?

Whatever it is, we've enjoyed it.

(Hat tip: JR!)