<p>AP Photo/Keith Srakocic/file Punxsutawney Phil, the weather predicting groundhog, crawls off the shoulder of handler Ben Hughes during the 2011 Groundhog Day festivities in Punxsutawney, Pa. The central Pennsylvania groundhog is set to make his annual weather prediction on Thursday just before 7:30 a.m. EST.</p>
February 2, 2012
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February 2, 2012 8:15 p.m.
Bites, escapes: Groundhogs gone wild
Rodents often misbehave on their big day
NEW YORK - They've bitten their handlers, refused to budge from their beds and lost their shadow-casting jobs to potbellied pigs. And it turns out, not all groundhogs are really that good at predicting the weather.