Where is the link to the article talking about it? Your text has very little information and it is not possible to confirm if this, in fact, occurred.

There have been other people who have tried something similar for a short period of time. It even has the case of a forum member who traveled for a long period exchanging BTC for p2p. I believe that as entertainment is something relatively interesting. But it's still far from viable. BTC is only accepted as an experiment in very specific stores.