Kicker: Not a toy

NICK EICHER, HOST: Remember that scene in Toy Story where the mean kid played the claw machine game and went rooting around among the squeaky toys?

SOUND: [SCENE FROM TOY STORY]

He spotted a Buzz Lightyear and a Woody and was beside himself with delight.

Now that’s the movies, not real life. But sometimes it does imitate art.

This real story is situated about 60 miles south of famous Punxatawney Pennsylvania. Employees at Meadows Family Fun Mini Golf spotted, what else? A live groundhog. There he was stuck among the prizes in the claw machine inside the arcade.

SOUND: [SCENE FROM GROUNDHOG DAY]

Not Phil the groundhog. Just the groundhog. They called the game warden … and the company that has the key to the claw machine … rescued the groundhog, and released him into the wild.

A much happier ending than the ordeal that awaited Buzz and Woody … if you know what I mean.

It’s The World and Everything in It.

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