Robert Kennedy Jr., the unbiased presidential candidate, stated in a video posted to X immediately that he was the one that positioned a lifeless bear cub in Central Park, making it appear like it was concerned in an accident with a bicycle.
He relayed the bizarre story apparently in an effort to get forward of a New Yorker piece on the incident.
Within the video, Kennedy is chatting with Roseanne Barr, in a kitchen space.
Kennedy stated 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 behind my van, as a result of I used to be going to pores and skin the bear, and it was in superb situation,” Kennedy informed Barr. He stated he was going to place the meat in his fridge.
After spending the day hawking, Kennedy stated 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 spotted I couldn’t go dwelling, I needed to go to the airport,” he stated. “And the bear was in my automobile, and I didn’t need to depart the bear in my automobile, as a result of that will have been dangerous.”
He stated that he and his pals on the dinner determined to take the bear to Central Park “and we are going to make it appear like he acquired hit by a motorcycle.”
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 subsequent day it was on each tv station. It was the entrance web page of each paper,” Kennedy stated.
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 girl was strolling her canine in Central Park when she seen the lifeless bear cub, which was mendacity beneath some bushes, partially hid by an deserted bicycle. The Police Division’s Animal Cruelty Investigation Squad started trying 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 automobile.
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 town to the park.
That stated, the story had remained a public thriller till Kennedy’s revelation.
His marketing campaign has had its share of different uncommon revelations. In Might, The New York Instances reported that Kennedy had stated in a deposition {that a} worm acquired into his mind and ate a portion of it. Kennedy informed the Instances that he had recovered from the reminiscence loss and fogginess brought on by the parasite.
