I contacted the reporter. according to him, the story is true.

At 08:41 PM 10/30/00 -0500, Beth Benoit wrote:
Ever influenced by my skepticism (and probably too much time spent reading The Straight Dope and checking out the Urban Legend website [www.snopes.com]) I did some searching and finally find the Tulsa World (Tulsa's daily newspaper) website, and alas, found the story in the archives, verbatim.  So I guess that at least in Tulsa, they believe it's true...

Here's the website if anyone is as obsessed as I:

http://search.tulsaworld.com/archivesearch/default.asp?WCI=DisplayStory&ID=001027_Ne_a17paren
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