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Chunk The Groundhog is the most adorable garden bandit

Put your gardens on lockdown, people!
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Andy Moser
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Chunk The Groundhog is the most adorable garden bandit
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You can't even be mad.

Chunk The Groundhog is a garden thief and a budding internet celebrity. When a person noticed their garden veggies were being stolen, they set up a camera to catch the culprit. Of course, it was none other than Chunk.

The groundhog's tactics are less refined and more I'm-going-to-steal-this-food-and-turn-to-the-security-camera-and-eat-it-right-in-your-damn-face-because-I-can. Chunk, as it turns out, is a badass — a crook in a coat of soft, brown fur.

This time it's a cucumber, but Chunk isn't picky. The bandit has been caught stealing red tomatoes, green tomatoes, and straight-up trespassing to say "what's up," as if just to remind us that as long as smooth criminal tomato-chompin' Chunk is around, none of our veggies are safe.

For more Chunk thievery, you can check out Chunk's very own YouTube channel: Chunk The Groundhog.

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Andy Moser

Andy is a fellow on Mashable's Culture team. He graduated with a B.S. from the University of North Florida in 2018 and moved to New York to pursue journalism in culture and entertainment. He can (and will) talk for too long about Star Wars and movies in general. His fear of stinging insects and 80+ degree weather will keep him inside forever. He wishes he were shorter.


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