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ehrnst

(32,640 posts) Mon Mar 25, 2013, 09:16 AM Mar 2013

Punxsutawney Phil Indicted!

An Ohio prosecutor is "indicting" Punxsutawney Phil for lying about an early spring. He faces the death penalty. But a "Phree Phil" movement has started, and Phil has retained a lawyer for his defense. (Yes, this is a real story.)

http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2013/03/22/prosecutor-chucks-book-at-groundhog-for-bad-prediction/?mod=e2fb

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Punxsutawney Phil Indicted! (Original Post) ehrnst Mar 2013 OP

Death-penalty for lying? This is outrageous! Put him in a cage instead! DetlefK Mar 2013 #1

He committed fraud! He deserves to be in jail!! lastlib Mar 2013 #2

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)

1. Death-penalty for lying? This is outrageous! Put him in a cage instead!

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Mon Mar 25, 2013, 09:23 AM

Mar 2013

lastlib

(23,251 posts)

2. He committed fraud! He deserves to be in jail!!

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Mon Mar 25, 2013, 09:34 AM

Mar 2013

Don't let that cute face fool you! He's a dirty, conniving con artist who would bite your hand in a second for mere peanuts! Let him spend the rest of his life in a steel cage--I don't call for the death penalty in his case, because if you fried him, he'd just ooze grease for a month and slide off.

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