The mayor of Sun Prairie, Wisc., got a little too close to Jimmy the weather forecasting groundhog on the annual holiday. Sun Prairie, Wisconsin's "Jimmy The Groundhog" chomps down on Mayor Jonathan Freund's ear during Groundhog Day celebrations. Jimmy the groundhog bites mayor in Wisconsin ... Buckeye Chuck was declared the state's official Groundhog Day representative in 1979. Share this - ... broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Watch: Groundhog bites Wisconsin mayor's ear Jimmy, the official groundhog in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin has caused a stir by biting the mayor's ear during the city's official Groundhog Day … Jimmy the Groundhog doesn’t care about your frivolous attempts to divine weather patterns with his shadow. Freund was elected mayor last May, and Jimmy, a two-year-old groundhog, made his debut. The mayor's office only heard the news of the groundhog… Call it first time jitters for first-time Groundhog Day participants, Freund and Jimmy XI. Sun Prairie, Wisc., Mayor Jonathan Freund got more than he bargained for on Monday, when Jimmy the Groundhog bit his ear during the annual Groundhog Day celebrations. Wisconsin groundhog bites mayor in brutal, but ultimately futile, protest of ridiculous tradition. B ill de Blasio, mayor of New York City, standard-bearer of the New Left, and now… slayer of groundhogs?. ... Watch Groundhog Bite Mayor's Ear 00:24. Punxsutawney Phil, the weather prognosticating groundhog, takes a bite out of the gloved hand of handler Ron Ploucha during the 129th celebration of Groundhog Day on Gobbler's Knob in … Assemblyman Matthew Titone told the New York Post: 'I was told he died of old age, that he went to that big farm in the sky.' Groundhog Who Bit Mayor Banished From Wisconsin Town. The mayor met with “Jimmy” the groundhog on early Monday, – Groundhog Day – to see if the rodent, as per annual tradition, could see its own shadow and thus determine whether or not spring would come early to the southern Wisconsin town. The premise behind the Groundhog Day celebrations is actually a traditional weather prediction Staten Island's grumpy groundhog, Charles G. Hogg, predicted an early spring this morning, but not before taking a bite out of Mayor Bloomberg for forcing him into weather prognostication. Sun Prairie Mayor Jon Freund, left, leans in for Jimmy's prognostication just before being bitten on ear by the groundhog during the Groundhogs Day … CBS affiliate WISC-TV says the Groundhog Day celebration became even more precarious when Jimmy's handlers, Jerry and Maria Hahn, said the mayor had gotten it … During the Groundhog's Day ceremony in Staten Island yesterday, Charles G. Hogg bit the Mayor and ruined a very nice pair of leather gloves. Mayor Bloomberg has faced some tough opponents since taking office, but none have bitten him up until now. A decades-old Groundhog Day tradition in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, may be over after Jimmy the Groundhog was released back into the … The City of Sun Prairie now says Jimmy the Groundhog whispered his forecast to the mayor…which might also be the same moment he bit the mayor's ear. Sun Prairie, Wisconsin’s “Jimmy The Groundhog” chomps down on Mayor Jonathan Freund’s ear during Groundhog Day celebrations. — -- The groundhog that bit a former mayor's ear in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, is gone and likely won't return for next year's Groundhog Day, the town's new mayor said today.. The Mayor of Wisconsin sure learnt a lesson or two in keeping animals (yes that means even cute fuzzy wuzzy ones) at arms length.