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Ohio prosecutors 'indict' Punxsutawney Phil over early spring forecast, seek death penalty
CINCINNATI Famed groundhog Punxsutawney Phil might want to go back into hibernation.
Authorities in still-frigid Ohio have issued an "indictment" of the furry rodent, who predicted an early spring when he didn't see his shadow after emerging from his western Pennsylvania lair on Feb. 2.
"Punxsutawney Phil did purposely, and with prior calculation and design, cause the people to believe that spring would come early," Mike Gmoser, the prosecutor in southwestern Ohio's Butler County, wrote in an official-looking indictment.
Gmoser wrote that Punxsutawney Phil is charged with misrepresentation of spring, which constitutes a felony "against the peace and dignity of the state of Ohio."
The penalty Phil faces? Gmoser says tongue firmly in cheek is death.
Punxsutawney Phil does not have a listed phone number
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/03/2...rly-spring-forecast-seek-death/#ixzz2OMbi5Hgo
CINCINNATI Famed groundhog Punxsutawney Phil might want to go back into hibernation.
Authorities in still-frigid Ohio have issued an "indictment" of the furry rodent, who predicted an early spring when he didn't see his shadow after emerging from his western Pennsylvania lair on Feb. 2.
"Punxsutawney Phil did purposely, and with prior calculation and design, cause the people to believe that spring would come early," Mike Gmoser, the prosecutor in southwestern Ohio's Butler County, wrote in an official-looking indictment.
Gmoser wrote that Punxsutawney Phil is charged with misrepresentation of spring, which constitutes a felony "against the peace and dignity of the state of Ohio."
The penalty Phil faces? Gmoser says tongue firmly in cheek is death.
Punxsutawney Phil does not have a listed phone number
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/03/2...rly-spring-forecast-seek-death/#ixzz2OMbi5Hgo