It wasn’t just the dead bear.
Days after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. admitted to taking a bear carcass from the side of the road and placing it in Central Park as a prank a decade ago, he said that has been picking up roadkill his “whole life” and once had a “freezer full of it” at home.
The comment came as the independent presidential candidate was leaving an upstate New York courtroom Wednesday where he had testified in a lawsuit seeking to exclude him from the state’s ballot in November.
The trial has focused on whether Kennedy improperly listed a residence in the New York City suburb of Katonah as his home address on his nominating petitions, when he has actually been living in the Los Angeles area since 2014.
That’s probably how he got the brain worm in the first place, actually.
Forget chicken and egg, worm and roadkill dilemma just dropped.
Behind the Bastards has a really good three-parter on him that they just released. He has a real love for falconry and a history of being around rotting meat.
4 parter, in case you missed the last one
https://player.fm/series/behind-the-bastards/part-four-the-rfk-jr-episodes
Can’t imagine how this guy got brain worms
He is lousy with them.
Brain worms or not, he could probably still kick Trump’s ass in a debate.
He could definitely kick Trump’s ass physically, but i’m not sure there’d be a winner in a debate between those two idiots and liars.
Now… I…. Kinda want to see that.
No. No.
I really want to see that. Call it a morbid curiosity as to how fucked a debate can get.
RFK Jr would win a few percentage points, and Trump would lose a few, and perhaps with it, the election.
They should definitely debate…
A decently prepared middle-schooler could kick his ass in a debate lol, not sure that’s something to brag about.
TBH it’s not that weird to keep roadkill. That’s a thing that happens in more rural areas; a deer gets hit, game warden gets called, and then the person that hit the deer takes it home, field dresses, and butchers it. I personally know a few people that have done this, because it feels really wasteful to kill a deer and then just leave it to rot and be picked apart by crows and vultures.
Given that bears tend to have very high rates of parasitic infections though, I don’t think I’d do this with bear at all.
Depends on the roadkill, honestly. Deer as roadkill, especially if you’re the one who hit it (or saw it hit) isn’t too bad, because it’s already an animal normally eaten, and is reasonably fresh.
Now a raccoon that’s been on the side of the road for god knows how long…that’s a different story.
Yes, I should have specified that you need to see it hit, or come across it very, very shortly afterwards.
Tug at the fur. If it stays in, you’re good. If it comes out, then it’s been there too long.
🤮
If I didn’t see it get hit, or personally put it out of it’s misery after being hit, I ain’t risking it.
He used to keep roadkill in the fridge to feed his pet hawk. It wasn’t even his fridge, it belonged to friends who would let him crash there. They’d ask why not just buy chickens for the hawk to eat, but rfk is a fucking weirdo and thought that keeping roadkill in his friend’s fridge was a better feeding option for his hawk
The hawk likes the taste of roadkill/carrion better. My partner is trying to get in to falconry and has done an uncomfortable amount of research on the topic.
i was raised by people like this. the correct answer is that he saved a buck or two.
Yeah I’m confused about why this is such a big story. Dumping the bear in central park is kinda fucked up, sure, but even then is it really that huge of a story lol
I think that dumping a bear–in a densely populated area!–is a bigger story, but that one is more because there wasn’t any attempt made AFAIK to notify relevant authorities. You aren’t supposed to just pick up road-kill animals without permission, since that could easily lead to poaching. And bear, in many states, tend to have much more tightly restricted hunting, since there are far fewer of them than deer.
(I see black bears on a near daily basis where I live, but I’m in rural Appalachia.)
Oh, taking a dead beat roadkill prize wasn’t even the best bit of this extremely juicy story.
When he encountered the dead bear cub, he and his rich hipsters friends were on their way to go “falconing”.
Yes… falconing.
Bonus points. When the story broke of a dead bear being discovered in Central Park ten years ago, his niece who was a journalist for the NY Times wrote the piece - not knowing that her own uncle was responsible for a dead bear being in NYC Central Park!
Can the story get any better
He’s been into falconry since he was a young boy to be fair. Everyone should listen to Behind the Bastards new podcast about him. First couple episodes I was like yeah, he’s fucked up from his family, sympathetic, loves hallucinogenic and other drugs, I kinda like this guy.
Third episode- ehhh I dunno…
Final episode- holy shit he’s an actual baby murdering psychopath
Not sure if I’ve listened to Episode 4 yet, but Robert Evans talked about how this guy used to go hang out in a pit full of rotting cow and sheep carcasses and would keep rotting roadkill in his friend’s refrigerators to feed his falcon. He definitely has some weird obsession with rotting corpses.
That he’s been rich and out of touch since he was young isn’t in any way a counter to him being rich and out of touch now.
And whatever else he does, he’s a lying anti-vaxxer with enough influence that that’s not just a personal oddity and instead something that gets other people sick and/or killed.
Yeah he’s terrible. I’m not defending him. Seriously check out that podcast. Before I listened I was like he’s a moron vaccine denying rich old man. Now I actually hate the guy.
He’s been into falconry since he was a young boy to be fair.
To be fair?
Would your family have been able to afford to be into falconry as a young boy? Mine sure wouldn’t and we weren’t exactly poor.
This is the epitome of being rich and out of touch.
I wouldn’t want all the riches in the world if the trade off was to be born in that fucked up family.
Seriously. People treat them like royalty when most of them are just typical old money assholes.
I mean he seems to be deeply broken…
However, threatening a police officer with a falcon is pretty cool.
Fuck yeah. I believe the quote was “I have a hawk that’s trained to kill cops” then approaching the officer and whipping out the bird from beneath his cloak.
Oh, well that certainly excuses taking it with you back to New York, going to a steakhouse, forgetting about the bear carcass, realizing you will be late to the airport, then driving to Midtown, which is nowhere near any of New York’s airports, dropping the bear carcass off and putting a bike next to it to make it look like the bike somehow killed a baby bear.
Except no it doesn’t in any way.
The brain worms did a lot of damage.
Yeah… Conservatives aren’t weird at all…
This guy’s Ratatouille kitchen helper is a dead badger with a crushed face.
RFK Jr cannibalism scandal is due within a month
Well, thank god they weren’t vaccinated at least. /s
I feel like this guy was living in squalor for awhile with Charlie and Frank
What’s his end goal here? Is any publicity better than none? That’s repulsive.
How can we be sure that this roadkill in his freezer was all animal? And not maybe … someome.
free range meat.
I kinda respect that.
So did the brain worms.
