2009-04-02
06:57:50
The small northeastern Minnesota town of Ely used April 1st to announce a bid for the 2016 summer Olympics.
The community, just south of here, set up a website and a video on YouTube as part of its submission. The only hitch was that it was all just a joke.
Last year's hoax of Canada trying to buy Ely was such a marketing success that officials decided to do another this year
