Ski Resort Offers Asylum to Punxsutawney Phil After Police Issue Arrest Warrant
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Photo by Jeff Swensen/Getty Images(GILFORD, N.H.) — A New Hampshire ski resort is offering asylum to Punxsutawney Phil after police in the state issued an arrest warrant for the groundhog, accusing him of failing to disclose that six more weeks of winter would bring “mountains of snow.”
The Gunstock Mountain Resort said Saturday on Facebook that it would welcome Punxatawney Phil to its slopes.
“We are concerned with the sensationalist attack on one of America’s true winter heroes,” a spokesperson for Gunstock said, according to a statement released by the resort.
“Gunstock is prepared to work with the Belknap County Sherriff’s office to provide safe passage to our county owned winter playground,” the statement said.
On Tuesday, the Merrimack, New Hampshire Police Department wrote on Facebook it had an “arrest warrant” for Punxsutawney Phil, adding that the groundhog should be considered armed and dangerous after he “told several people that Winter would last 6 more weeks, however he failed to disclose that it would consist of mountains of snow!”
The Gunstock Mountain Resort has not returned ABC News’ request for comment.
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