During a Groundhog Day ceremony in 2014, the former New York mayor accidentally dropped a groundhog. A few days later, that animal died. However, a Staten Island Zoo spokesperson said that the Bill de Blasio incident and the groundhog's death were unre...
reported on Charlotte's fall they quoted a 14-year-old onlooker saying: “Next year they’ll need a net ... Look how tall he is. Can you imagine falling from that height?”
Some were also suspicious of Charlotte's death because the Staten Island Zoo did not make the news public until September 2014, more than seven months after the incident. Concerns of a Groundhog Day murder cover-up were heightened when it was revealed that aThe evidence may seem damning, but a spokesperson for the zoo said that de Blasio was not to blame for the groundhog's death.
Morris said it wasn't clear what caused Charlotte's death, but that the injury likely occurred the night before she died: "We don’t know how the animal suffered the injuries but we don’t think it was from the fall. We believe it happened sometime the night before she was found dead." Morris also tried to dispel rumors of a political cover-up, saying that the mayor's office was not notified about the groundhog's death at the time because"there was no reason to do it." Morris also clarified that the zoo frequently uses stand-ins for"Staten Island Chuck," picking"whichever groundhog is the least grouchy that day" to participate in the ceremony.
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