If you’re like me, “stowaway groundhog” wasn’t on your bingo card today. Nevertheless, here we are, with a custard shop in Pennsylvania reporting a runaway rodent residing in a stuffed animal arcade claw machine.
An intrepid varmint dubbed Colonel Custard — so named for the frozen custard shop and mini-golf outlet where he was discovered — was found stowed away with a passel of stuffed animals prizes in an arcade game two weeks ago. Players were maneuvering a mechanical claw to pluck toys from the glass game case when they suddenly realized a real live groundhog was blinking back at them.
The newly named colonel was found in Hollidaysburg, a good hour’s drive from Pennsylvania’s far more famous groundhog town, Punxsutawney, home to the weather-predicting groundhog Phil.
The marmot has, as the saying goes, gone viral:
