The southern Wyoming coal mining town of Hanna gained some dubious national attention as part of website spoof about implanted radio frequency identification chips. Hanna Town Clerk Vivian Gonzales says her office started receiving calls early Monday from people asking whether a local ordinance really required its government-assisted citizens to be implanted with identification chips. The callers' anxiety stemmed from an article on a website called National Report, which claimed Hanna was part of a federal health care pilot program, and that the town mayor was the first recipient of a chip. Gonzales says that dozens of calls came in from citizens, pastors and doctors asking if it was true. The National Report publication offers a disclaimer that all its news articles are fiction.
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