Evil Is Itinerant on Nostr: TIL that Bill De Blasio, as mayor of NYC, dropped their local groundhog, Staten ...
TIL that Bill De Blasio, as mayor of NYC, dropped their local groundhog, Staten Island Chuck, during their local Groundhog Day celebrations in 2014, which killed Staten Island Chuck. The Staten Island Zoo covered it up and announced that Staten Island Chuck died the following September. I wish I were making this up. Snopes toes the party line on this, but I'm sorry, if you drop a groundhog and it subsequently dies several days later of internal injuries, you don't get to claim you had nothing to do with it. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bill-de-blasio-murder-groundhog/
Not only that, but "Staten Island Chuck" was just whatever groundhog seemed least likely to bite the mayor that day, after Bloomberg got bitten, so in this case, "Staten Island Chuck" was actually a groundhog named Charlotte.
The facts are that Staten Island Chuck was a groundhog named Charlotte, Bill De Blasio dropped her on her head, she died seven days later of internal injuries, and the zoo didn't announce this until September of that year. Connect the dots.
Not only that, but "Staten Island Chuck" was just whatever groundhog seemed least likely to bite the mayor that day, after Bloomberg got bitten, so in this case, "Staten Island Chuck" was actually a groundhog named Charlotte.
The facts are that Staten Island Chuck was a groundhog named Charlotte, Bill De Blasio dropped her on her head, she died seven days later of internal injuries, and the zoo didn't announce this until September of that year. Connect the dots.