“I had to go to the airport, & the bear was in my car, & I didn’t want to leave the bear in the car because that would have been bad,” #RFKJr continues.

Then, as he put it, “the little bit of the redneck in me” had an idea.

RFKJr just happened to have an old bike in his car, … & decided to stage the #BearCub in #CentralPark as if it had been hit by a bike.

#insane #idiocracy#WTAF #weird#USpol

“I wasn’t drinking, of course, but people were drinking w/me who thought this was a good idea,” #RFKJr said. “So we went & did that & we thought it would be amusing for whoever found it, or something.” [the man is completely #insane]

The 6-month-old, 44-pound #BearCub made national news after a dog walker stumbled upon it …in a wide-open part of the park right near the path where thousands of people run & bike each day.
…

#idiocracy#WTAF #weird#CentralPark#USpol

#Law enforcement took the #BearCub to Albany for analysis & determined that it had been hit by a car, likely outside the park. They also confiscated the bicycle to test for fingerprints.

“I was worried because my prints were all over that bike,” #RFKJr says in the video….

But the mystery remained unsolved, & the story eventually faded away. Now, almost 10 yrs later, Kennedy said he was prompted to come clean ahead of an anticipated New Yorker exposé.

#insane #idiocracy#WTAF #weird#USpol

In more #WTAF #weird news:

#RFKJr confesses he left a dead bear cub in #CentralPark 10 yrs ago

A decade after the shocking discovery of a #BearCub carcass in Manhattan’s Central Park, the mystery of who dumped it there has finally been solved.

And the man taking responsibility is none other than presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

#insane #idiocracy#USpol
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/05/nx-s1-5063939/rfk-jr-central-park-bear-bicycle

The #ConspiracyTheorist-turned-third-party candidate’s campaign has weathered a series of increasingly improbable-sounding scandals in recent months, from Kennedy’s admission that a #worm ate part of his #brain to his denial of reports that he once ate barbecued dog (he said it was a goat).

#RFKJr unleashed this latest one himself, in a 3-min video posted to X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday.

#insane #idiocracy#WTAF #weird#CentralPark#BearCub#USpol

It shows him sitting at a kitchen table, telling an incredulous-looking Roseanne Barr (yes, the canceled comedian) about how the dead #BearCub ended up in his van upstate &, ultimately, on top of a bicycle beneath a bush in #NYC’s largest urban park.

#RFKJr… says he was driving upstate early one morning to take a group of people falconing… when a driver in front of him fatally hit a bear cub.

#insane #idiocracy#WTAF #weird#USpol

“So I pulled over & I picked up the bear & put him in the back of my van, because I was gonna skin the bear,” #RFKJr explains matter-of-factly. “It was in very good condition & I was gonna put the meat in my refrigerator.”

…The bear never made it back to his Westchester home, however.

Kennedy says he got waylaid by a busy day of falconry, & then had to rush back to NYC for a dinner… which ran late.

#insane #idiocracy#WTAF #weird#USpol