The ‘Ol “Pretend to Execute the Mayor to Increase Tourism” Trick

Ari Kohen highlights, er, this:

The mayor of the southwest North Dakota tourist town of Medora is seeking permission for a hanging, and he is sticking his neck out by volunteering to be the one to go to the gallows.” In perhaps the greatest individual story in Associated Press history, a North Dakota mayor wants to convince us that he’s not crazy when he wants to hold a fake hanging for tourists

I don’t… Um… What? Really?

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