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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. grossed individuals out this 12 months with a narrative a few parasite that ate a part of his mind. Now, he is again with one other loopy concept: about leaving a useless bear cub in New York’s Central Park.
The unbiased US presidential candidate, conspiracy theorist and anti-vaccination activist posted a three-minute video on social media on Sunday through which he apparently tried to reference highway killings and covert operations in a New Yorker journal report. unusual story earlier than escaping.
In what seems to be a post-dinner chat with sitcom actress Roseanne Barr and others, Kennedy recounts the legendary story:
Kennedy mentioned he was on a falconry journey with buddies in New York state in 2014 when a truck in entrance of him struck and killed a six-month-old black bear.
The scion of America’s most well-known political household rushed to salvage the physique for meat, inserting it within the again seat of his automobile.
“You are able to do that in New York state,” Kennedy, 70, mentioned in a gravelly voice. “You possibly can put a bear tag on a roadkill bear.”
However Falcon was late for the sphere journey, so he could not transport the physique again house to Westchester County.
The identical goes for the dinner he attended that night time in New York, the place Kennedy realized he needed to go on to the airport to catch his flight.
“The bear was in my automotive and I did not wish to go away it within the automotive as a result of that may be dangerous,” he mentioned.
After Kennedy and firm brainstormed, they took the physique to the long-lasting Central Park and positioned it underneath an outdated bicycle in Kennedy’s automotive.
Kennedy mentioned the plan was to make it seem like a bicycle owner killed the animal, an admission that prompted laughter from individuals within the movie.
“In fact, I wasn’t consuming, however the individuals I used to be consuming with thought it was a good suggestion,” he mentioned.
“And I believed, , it is a little little bit of a redneck in me on the time,” added the son of the late Robert F. Kennedy.
When the animal’s physique was ultimately found, it turned huge information.
“I used to be like, ‘Oh my God, what have I executed?'” Kennedy mentioned, including: “I used to be nervous as a result of that bike had my footprints throughout it.”
The story sat dormant for a decade, he mentioned, till a fact-checker from The New Yorker known as to confirm it in a characteristic on Kennedy. This work has not but been printed.
“It may be a foul story,” Kennedy predicted with amusing.
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