Groundhog bites US Mayor's ear during ceremony

LazyLion

King of de Jungle
Joined
Mar 17, 2005
Messages
107,602
Reaction score
10,245
Location
District 9
A mayor in Wisconsin has learned a valuable lesson about his city's weather-predicting groundhog: Don't get too close.

Jimmy, the official groundhog in Sun Prairie, bit the mayor's ear during a Groundhog Day celebration on Monday.

The groundhog's handler was holding the animal next to Mayor Jonathan Freund's face when it promptly bit down.

Freund flinched, but he went on with his declaration that Jimmy had predicted an early spring.

WISC-TV reports that the Groundhog Day celebration became even more precarious when Jimmy's handlers, Jerry and Maria Hahn, said the mayor had gotten it wrong and that there would be six more weeks of winter.

The city later issued a statement saying only the mayor can translate Jimmy's prediction.


Source : Sapa-AP /avb
Date : 03 Feb 2015 06:49
 
WISC-TV reports that the Groundhog Day celebration became even more precarious when Jimmy's handlers, Jerry and Maria Hahn, said the mayor had gotten it wrong and that there would be six more weeks of winter.

The city later issued a statement saying only the mayor can translate Jimmy's prediction.

It is their kulcha.
 
Lol, this sounds like something from the Simpsons with Quimby. You can't make this **** up.
 
Wisconsin? Serves them right for trying to copy Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania and their groundhog Phil.
 
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X