I'm going to go ahead and say this never happened. The explanation in the article makes 0 sense. I can't find any reports of this besides the 1988 article where

I'm going to go ahead and say this never happened. The explanation in the article makes 0 sense. I can't find any reports of this besides the 1988 article where this story is relayed like something that happened to your friends cousin in Middle School. I think the claim is sufficiently bizarre to require more proof then that.