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2024-08-06 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. admits he left dead bear in New York’s Central Park in 2014 prank

[IsraelTimes] US presidential hopeful says a woman had hit the animal with her car; he’d intended to skin and eat it, but instead dumped carcass with bike on top to make it look like an accident

Independent US presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he once retrieved a bear that was killed by a motorist and left it in New York’s Central Park with a bicycle on top, sparking a mystery that consumed the city a decade ago.

Kennedy describes the incident in a video that was posted to social media Sunday, adding it will be included in a forthcoming New Yorker article that he expects to be damaging.

Boys will be boys. I mean, c’mon, guys — he was only 60 when it happened!

It’s the latest bizarre incident in Kennedy’s quixotic campaign that has divided his famous family and left Republicans and Democrats

...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
alike concerned about his potential impact on the presidential contest.

Kennedy has acknowledged a parasite that lodged in his brain and died. He denied eating a dog after a friend shared a photo with Vanity Fair magazine showing Kennedy dramatically preparing to take a bite of a charred animal; Kennedy said it was a goat.

In the video, Kennedy recounts the story to actress Roseanne Barr. He says he was heading to a falconry excursion with friends when a woman driving ahead of him hit and killed the young bear with her vehicle.

He says he put it in his own vehicle, intending to skin it and eat the meat, but the day got away from him.

Eventually, he says, he was in Manhattan and needed to get the bear carcass out of his vehicle. His friends, fueled by alcohol, concocted the Central Park plan as a prank, he said, adding he was not drunk himself.

At the time, bicycle accidents were getting significant media attention, so Kennedy and his friends thought it would be funny to make it look like the bear was hit by a bicycle.

Two women walking their dogs found the dead bear and alerted authorities, touching off a mystery that captivated the city for a few days. Bears are not among the park’s known wildlife population.
Just junkies and feral youts
The bike was dusted for prints and the animal sent to Albany for a necropsy, which determined the bear was likely hit by a vehicle and was not a victim of animal cruelty.

But how the bear ended up in Central Park remained a mystery.

"I was worried because my prints were all over that bike," Kennedy tells Barr in the video.

His Wikipedia page makes for fascinating reading, despite the heavy judgementalism of the editors.

Posted by trailing wife 2024-08-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 Ah????

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-08-06 02:51|| 2024-08-06 02:51|| Front Page Top

#2
Think Black Bear Cub size & weight 1-year is 50-80 lbs. RFK claims he picked it up, loaded it then transported it, what 100 miles, to Central Park unloaded it unseen, and staged it with a Bike?

As the AP stated in its story, then? "The cub’s head was on top of the back bicycle wheel."

Question: Was the head cut off and place on the bike before or after he gathered his road kill?

Also think of the taxpayer costs and lost local business revenues, to clean up and investigate the prank by a 60-year man claiming to be able to lead a nation.

Sorry.
We need maturity in the White House.

Posted by NN2N1 2024-08-06 06:28|| 2024-08-06 06:28|| Front Page Top

#3 There are a lot of reasons for folks not liking him too much, NN2N1.

This incident is just a manifestation for a few of them.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2024-08-06 06:46|| 2024-08-06 06:46|| Front Page Top

#4 This is like the Kristi Noem dog story.
Why would you think anyone needed to know this?

Posted by ed in texas 2024-08-06 08:11|| 2024-08-06 08:11|| Front Page Top

#5 Just a boyish prank.

About what I'd expect from a hereditary presidential candidate.

Posted by Fred 2024-08-06 09:46|| 2024-08-06 09:46|| Front Page Top

#6 Sadly, the men of that family appear to have always had a few issues.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-08-06 09:51|| 2024-08-06 09:51|| Front Page Top

#7 Apparently the story is coming out and he wants to get ahead of it.
Asserting his right to bear bears, or something.

Posted by Ululating Platypus 2024-08-06 10:02|| 2024-08-06 10:02|| Front Page Top

#8 Does our overly-hysterical Aussie know?

Posted by Frank G 2024-08-06 10:05|| 2024-08-06 10:05|| Front Page Top

#9 Dead Animals and Pranks, seems a lil out-of-touch with the regular Joe.

Posted by mossomo 2024-08-06 12:40|| 2024-08-06 12:40|| Front Page Top

#10 Who would have expected a grizzly tale like that from him? I surely hope that he now considers it a Kodiak moment. In any case there is now trouble bruin for him. I just can't bear to read a thing like this written by a cub reporter.

Posted by Canuckistan sniper 2024-08-06 13:41|| 2024-08-06 13:41|| Front Page Top

#11 Falconry? More like Old Crow.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-08-06 15:51|| 2024-08-06 15:51|| Front Page Top

#12 Mama bear is watching him from the afterlife and considering his karma...

Posted by 3dc 2024-08-06 17:44|| 2024-08-06 17:44|| Front Page Top

#13 Did this conscienceless bastard even consider the possible consequences for an innocent young bear of color falsely accused of causing the "accident," brutally coerced into confessing, and unjustly imprisoned, losing the best years of its promising criminal career while receiving mere millions in compensation? Somehow I doubt it.

Posted by Pancho Poodle8452 2024-08-06 18:58|| 2024-08-06 18:58|| Front Page Top

#14 Maybe it’s worm that ate part of his brain

Posted by Beavis 2024-08-06 20:37|| 2024-08-06 20:37|| Front Page Top

#15 C’mon, keep with the fambly tradition: stuff the stiff in an Olds and dump the car in a lake…..

Posted by USN, Ret. 2024-08-06 20:52|| 2024-08-06 20:52|| Front Page Top

#16 In a Buick? Upside down and submerged in the lake?

Just curious.

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2024-08-06 20:56|| 2024-08-06 20:56|| Front Page Top

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