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He had a bear-y unique experience.
Independent Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy appeared to fess up to being one of the culprits who dumped a dead bear cub in Central Park a decade ago — after abandoning a plan to skin it.
Seemingly trying to preempt a forthcoming story from the New Yorker magazine, Kennedy, 70, bizarrely recounted in a video posted to social media how some of his buddies were drinking and thought it would be a good idea to dump the dead bear off in the park and “make it look like he got hit by a bike.”
The Kennedy scion insisted that he wasn’t drinking when he opted to put an “old bike in his car” — that someone asked him to throw away — next to the deceased animal.
There had been a spate of local biking accidents that were making headlines at the time.
“Everybody thought that’s a great idea. So we went and did that and thought it would be amusing for whoever found it,” Kennedy recounted in a video posted on X that featured sitcom actress Roseanne Barr.
A media frenzy quickly ensued in 2014 after a woman discovered the dead bear under some bushes concealed in part by a bike.
The bear was described in reports at the time as a cub, though Kennedy simply called it “a young bear.”
“I turned on the TV and there was like a mile of yellow tape, and there were 20 cop cars. There were like helicopters flying over it. And I was like ‘Oh, my God, what did I do?’” he said.
“I was worried because my [finger]prints were all over that bike. Luckily the story died after a while.”
Locals were puzzled by the sudden appearance of the dead bear at the time and many people were horrified.
Kennedy claimed in the video that he stumbled upon the dead bear while trekking through New York state for a falconing trip in Goshen, New York.
During his ride up there in the wee hours of the morning, Kennedy claims that a woman in front of her hit a bear with her vehicle and killed it.
“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 very good condition and I was going to put the meat in my refrigerator,” he recalled.
The environmental lawyer explained that he planned to obtain a bear tag for a road kill bear and put the meat in his refrigerator later. But the falconing trip ran late…
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