in the morning On October 6, 2014, New York City residents were left baffled. A six-month-old black bear cub was found dead in Central Park. There were no more wild bears roaming Manhattan, and despite investigators’ efforts to determine who had dumped the bear in the park, the case quickly disappeared.
Nearly ten years later, the culprit came out: presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who decided to preemptively publish a magazine article revealing this bizarre story.
On Sunday, Kennedy posted a video of himself speaking to Roseanne Barr, in which he described seeing a woman hit a lion cub with her car while driving it to a falconry in the Hudson Valley. “Looking forward to seeing how you handle this, @NewYorker,” Kennedy captioned the video, referencing the popular magazine in his post.
In the video, Kennedy describes a bizarre series of events. “I was going to skin the bear — and it was in pretty good shape — and I was going to put the meat in my freezer,” Kennedy tells Barr. He put the bear in his trunk, had a great day of hunting, and had a late dinner — when Kennedy realized he was late for his flight.
“I couldn't get home, I had to go to the airport, and the bear was in my car, and I didn't want to leave the bear in my car because that would have been bad.”
So instead of acting like a normal person and reporting the dead bear to wildlife authorities, or maybe just throwing it in the nearest dumpster he could find, or some other less crazy series of actions, Kennedy decided to try to stage the cubs' deaths so that it looked like an accident in Central Park.
“I said, ‘Let’s go put the bear in Central Park, and we’ll make it look like it got hit by a bike,’” Kennedy tells Barr, who laughs at the anecdote. “We thought it would be funny for whoever found it or something.”
on monday, The New Yorker The Daily Telegraph published its story, which included not only the story but also a photo of Kennedy standing next to the dead bear cub in the trunk of his car. The cub had a visible wound near its shoulder, and Kennedy was putting his finger in the cub's bloody mouth and pretending to be bitten. When someone asked him, “Is that true?”, Kennedy replied, “No, no… The New Yorker Commenting on the incident, Kennedy joked: “Maybe that's where I got my brain worm.”
The abandonment of cubs was not the only strange tale discovered by the zoologist. The New Yorker. The magazine spoke to the former rolling stone administration Editor Will Dana, who recounted an incident in which Kennedy visited our magazine office “carrying a bucket of a small, injured bird.”
“Then we had our meeting, we did what we had to do, and all of a sudden he said, ‘I have to go. Can you have one of your interns take the bird to the vet?’” Dana recalled. While Kennedy claimed Dana’s story was “a lie,” rolling stone Editor-in-Chief Sean Woods corroborated Dana's story, saying, “The fact-checking of this information is correct.”
Kennedy is running against former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris as a third-party independent candidate, and he has enough scandals to his name in all three campaigns.
Last month, Kennedy did not deny an allegation that he assaulted a woman who worked as a nanny in his and his ex-wife's home in 1998. “I'm not a church boy. I don't run that way. I was a very loud young man,” he said in response to the allegation, which was reported by The New York Times. Vanity Fair.
The same Vanity Fair The report included a 2010 photo of Kennedy eating the roasted carcass of what appeared to be a dog. The candidate claimed the animal was actually a goat, and added that he would never practice cannibalism — and no one asked him about it.
