Internet idiot Aaron Worthing got taken in by this article at The Daily Currant (a satirical web news outlet):

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was denied a second slice of pizza today at an Italian eatery in Brooklyn.

The owners of Collegno's Pizzeria say they refused to serve him more than one piece to protest Bloomberg's proposed soda ban,which would limit the portions of soda sold in the city.

Bloomberg was having an informal working lunch with city comptroller John Liu at the time and was enraged by the embarrassing prohibition. The owners would not relent, however, and the pair were forced to decamp to another restaurant to finish their meal.

Witnesses say the situation unfolded when as the two were looking over budget documents, they realized they needed more food than originally ordered.

"Hey, could I get another pepperoni over here?" Bloomberg asked owner Antonio Benito.

"I'm sorry sir," he replied, "we can't do that. You've reached your personal slice limit."

Stop and Tisk

Mayor Bloomberg, not accustomed to being challenged, assumed that the owner was joking.

"OK, that's funny," he remarked, "because of the soda thing … No come on. I'm not kidding. I haven't eaten all morning, just send over another pepperoni."

"I'm sorry sir. We're serious," Benito insisted. "We've decided that eating more than one piece isn't healthy for you, and so we're forbidding you from doing it."

"Look jackass," Bloomberg retorted, his anger boiling, "I fucking skipped breakfast this morning just so I could eat four slices of your pizza. Don't be a schmuck, just get back to the kitchen and bring out some fucking pizza, okay."

"I'm sorry sir, there's nothing I can do," the owner repeated. "Maybe you could go to several restaurants and get one slice at each. At least that way you're walking. You know, burning calories."

Witnesses say a fuming Bloomberg and a bemused Liu did indeed walk down the street to a rival pizzeria , ordered another slice and finished their meeting.

New York's so-called "soda ban" would have limited the size of sweetened beverages served in restaurants to 16 oz (0.5 liters). The plan, backed by Mayor Bloomberg, is currently being held up by a U.S. district court.

Bloomberg has been the mayor of New York City since 2002. Theretofore he was the CEO of Bloomberg LP, the world's leading financial data firm. His personal fortune is estimated at around $27 billion.

Once he was aware of his stupid error, Worthing amended his post, adding:

Update: Alas, the article is not true. It is satire.  Which makes pretty much everything I wrote below wrong.  Can I plead that nothing in the article suggested it was satire?  Seriously, look at it, do you see any part of it that was implausible? 

What a snork.

First of all, satire isn't usually labelled as such.  As in, "HERE COMES SATIRE… BE FOREWARNED!"  It kind of kills the joke.

Secondly, YES there was plenty in the article that was implausible.

For one thing, does Aaron really think the Mayor of New York takes informal meetings in a pizza place??

In Brooklyn??

And doesn't the verbatim quotes (the exactness and amount of them) suggest that the article is fake?  What witness remembers that much with that much precision.

And Aaron condemned the Mayor's swearing?  Yes, even that was a tip-off that the article was fake.

And finally, all Aaron had to do was glance over at some of the other headlines from the Daily Currant, sitting in the right hand column:

He didn't bother to think, because partisan hacks don't.  They just want to make their point, and ding their victim.  Truth?  Facts?  Honesty?  Those are irrelevant.

All hail the "journalist" Aaron Walker.