Punxsutawney Phil charged with fraud for early spring forecast

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Punxsutawney Phil charged with fraud for early spring forecast

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/punxsutawney-phil-charged-fraud-early-spring-forecast-220127495.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/BFITVU5UKe5.ceYGljlFPw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-03-22T220127Z_1_CBRE92L1P6J00_RTROPTP_2_GROUNDHOG-DAY.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Groundhog co-handler Ron Ploucha holds Punxsutawney Phil as the Groundhog Club's Bob Roberts reads the famous groundhog's annual weather prediction on Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney" align="left" title="Groundhog co-handler Ron Ploucha holds Punxsutawney Phil as the Groundhog Club's Bob Roberts reads the famous groundhog's annual weather prediction on Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney" border="0" /></a>By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - With a snow storm expected to batter the Plains, Midwest and East Coast this weekend, a spring-deprived Ohio prosecutor is taking out his frustration with the long winter on a famous prognosticating groundhog. &quot;I decided it was about time we indicted Punxsutawney Phil for fraud,&quot; said Mike Gmoser, prosecutor in Ohio's Butler County, in an interview Friday. When he emerged from his burrow in Gobbler's Knob, Pennsylvania, Phil did not see his shadow, leading to a forecast of an early spring. Gmoser's mock indictment contends that the forecast was fraudulent. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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