Robert Kennedy Jr. Says He Was Behind The Placement Of A Useless Bear Cub In Central Park
Robert Kennedy Jr., the impartial presidential candidate, mentioned in a video posted to X right now that he was the one who positioned a lifeless bear cub in Central Park, making it appear like it was concerned in an accident with a bicycle.
He relayed the weird story apparently in an effort to get forward of a New Yorker piece on the incident.
Within the video, Kennedy is talking to Roseanne Barr, in a kitchen space.
Kennedy mentioned that he had been within the Hudson Valley space, early one morning, when a girl in a van in entrance of him hit a bear and killed it.
Roseanne Barr and Robert Kennedy
“So I pulled over and I picked up the bear and put him at the back of my van, as a result of I used to be going to pores and skin the bear, and it was in superb situation,” Kennedy instructed Barr. He mentioned he was going to place the meat in his fridge.
After spending the day hawking, Kennedy mentioned that as an alternative of going again to his dwelling in Westchester he needed to get to a dinner in New York Metropolis.
“On the finish of the dinner, it went late, and I noticed I couldn’t go dwelling, I needed to go to the airport,” he mentioned. “And the bear was in my automotive, and I didn’t need to go away the bear in my automotive, as a result of that might have been unhealthy.”
He mentioned that he and his buddies on the dinner determined to take the bear to Central Park “and we’ll make it appear like he obtained hit by a motorbike.”
They thought that whoever discovered the bear would discover it amusing, however as an alternative it created a little bit of a media sensation. “The following day it was on each tv station. It was the entrance web page of each paper,” Kennedy mentioned.
In 2014, The New York Instances reported on the invention of a lifeless bear cub, “The preliminary particulars of the case have been clear: A lady was strolling her canine in Central Park when she observed the lifeless bear cub, which was mendacity underneath some bushes, partially hid by an deserted bicycle. The Police Division’s Animal Cruelty Investigation Squad started wanting into the bear’s demise, and the cub was taken to Albany for evaluation by the conservation division’s wildlife well being unit.” Authorities decided that the bear had been hit by a automotive.
The Instances added, “However so many questions stay unanswered: How did the bear find yourself in Central Park? Was there foul play concerned? Did she die within the park, or was she dumped there?”
Within the story, consultants surmised that it was the latter, commenting that it might be extremely uncommon for a bear to journey by means of town to the park.
That mentioned, the story had remained a public thriller till Kennedy’s revelation.
His marketing campaign has had its share of different uncommon revelations. In Could, The New York Instances reported that Kennedy had mentioned in a deposition {that a} worm obtained into his mind and ate a portion of it. Kennedy instructed the Instances that he had recovered from the reminiscence loss and fogginess attributable to the parasite.
