Grounds for execution?: Punxsutawney Phil ‘indicted’ for lying about early spring
The calendar says it’s spring, but winter is holding its grip on us, putting much of North America in a cranky mood.
It’s so bad that Punxsutawney Phil, the groundhog who predicted an early spring, has been indicted for misrepresenting the arrival of spring.
As winter keeps spring at bay, a prosecutor in Ohio has filed a criminal “indictment” against the groundhog, who, he said, “lied” about his prediction that warmer weather would arrive early.
On the first day of spring on Wednesday, there was more than a foot of snow in many parts of the Northeastern U.S.
Prosecuting Attorney Michael Gmoser of Butler County told CNN the groundhog purposely misled the nation.
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/03/22/grounds_for_execution_punxsutawney_phil_indicted_for_lying_about_early_spring.html
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'Waterboard a mallard'? Why would anyone want to do that?
Preferably something that begins with "And first we make the Roux"
Oh, you said Groundhog... not ground hog. My bad. 
http://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2013/01/celebrate_ground_hog_day_with.html
No, in our little slice of heaven, ground hog takes on a whole other meaning. Down here prefer to have our hog in the form of sausage. And given the choice I’d rather stay at home with a mess of sausage gravy and some biscuits than standing around a tree somewhere waiting for a beast to stick his head out.
on a technicality...
He didn't lie.
He just wasn't real specific about where the early spring was going to be.
Somewhere in the world, spring is already here.
Free Phil! Free Phil!
