Paul Ryan Says Woodchucks ’Ate’ His SUV -- And He’s Not Alone

How much of a truck can a woodchuck chuck? Speaker Paul Ryan came close to finding out when a family of the critters infested his SUV while it was sitting in storage this past winter. “My car was eaten by animals,” Ryan told the Economic Club of Washington, D.C., on Thursday. “It’s just dead.” Ryan was discussing his upcoming retirement from Congress, and talking about how he hasn’t been allowed to drive since becoming Speaker of the House in 2015. He said he’d been storing his Chevrolet Suburban at his mother’s Madison, Wis.-area home and that it wouldn’t start when she went to check on it after returning from at trip to FloridWhen he brought it to the dealership, the mechanics told him that woodchucks had been gnawing at the wires.