I did read it, it seemed an odd thing to do, but there isn't anything there that jumped out as being a joke... How do you know it's satire? It was on Google n

I did read it, it seemed an odd thing to do, but there isn't anything there that jumped out as being a joke... How do you know it's satire? It was on Google news so I assumed it to be true. Then again, the Onion is on Google news as well...