Just so you don’t think the elections all about Harris vs Dampnut, RFK the younger just had to remind of us of his existence with… THIS.
The decade-old question about how a dead six-month-old female black bear cub ended up in New York City’s iconic Central Park beneath an old bicycle has been answered. Independent presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. on Sunday confessed that he was behind the incident after a fact checker from the New Yorker called him to verify the story.
In a video he posted on X, Kennedy said he had come across the bear in the morning when he was going falconing; a woman in a van in front of him hit and killed the bear.
“So, I pulled over and I picked up the bear and put him in the back of my van because I was going to skin the bear, and it was in very good condition, and I was going to put the meat in my refrigerator,” Kennedy said. “And you can do that in New York state. You can get a bear tag for roadkill bear.”
But the falconing day went longer than expected, and he had to go straight to a dinner in the city at Peter Luger Steakhouse, he recounted. That, too, ran late, and Kennedy said he realized he had to go to the airport and would not be able to go home to Westchester first.
“And the bear was in my car, and I didn’t want to leave the bear in the car because that would have been bad,” he said. “So, then I thought you know at that time this was the little bit of the redneck me. There’d been a series of bicycle accidents in New York they had just put in the bike lanes and so a couple of people were getting killed and it was every day and people badly injured every day it was in the press.”
He said, “I wasn’t drinking, of course, but people were drinking with me who thought this was a good idea.”
Kennedy mentioned that in addition to the dead bear cub, he had “an old bike in my car that somebody asked me to get rid of.”
“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 recalled. What he did not expect was the media attention the stunt would attract.
To be honest I don’t recall this story from back in the day, but, well, it caused a fair bit of consternation at the time cos apparently bears aren’t something you normally find in Central Park NYC. Somehow he got away with this ludicrous plot—I mean, could a bicycle actually do fatal damage to a bear cub—until now, and I can’t imagine why he’s waited until now to admit it, nor what reaction he thought he would get. American presidential candidates, everyone: wouldn’t eat a human, but would’ve eaten a bear had he not been too busy playing with birds… Also, this was a couple of years after he was found with a brain worm that ate part of his brain and died (which tells you how good his brain evidently was), so I don’t know if he wasn’t drinking but I’m fairly sure he wasn’t thinking either…
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