RFK Jr. admits to leaving the dead bear in Central Park

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. confessed recovering a bear carcass killed by a driver and leaving in New York’s Central Park with a bicycle on top 10 years ago in a bizarre new video he posted on X on Sunday.

The video, which was shared with the caption “Looking forward to seeing how you spin this one @NewYorker,” came before a critical profile of the independent presidential candidate published on Monday.

When telling the story to actress Roseanne Barr, RFK Jr. said he was driving in upstate New York on his way to a hunting trip when a woman driving in front of him hit a bear with her car, accidentally killing it. . “I stopped and picked up the bear and put it in the back of my van because I was going to skin the bear and… put the meat in my refrigerator,” he said.

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RFK Jr. said his hunting trip was delayed and he had dinner plans and needed to be at the airport that night. “The bear was in my car and I didn’t want to leave it in the car because that would be bad,” he added.

At that time, fatal bicycle accidents in New York City were receiving widespread media attention. RFK Jr.’s friends, who had been drinking, decided to leave the bear’s carcass with an old bicycle he had. “We thought it would be fun for whoever found it,” RFK Jr. said.

Two women walking their dogs discovered the bear the next day and alerted police. “To think that people would do something like this to an animal is very disturbing,” said one resident. told CBS news.

The carcass was sent to Albany for a necropsy, which stated that the animal was likely struck by a motor vehicle and was not a case of animal cruelty.

This is not the first unusual incident involving RFK Jr. during his long-shot presidential campaign. Earlier this year, he denied eating a dog after a friend showed him Vanity Fair a photo of him about to take a bite from a charred animal. RFK Jr. also revealed in May that he suffered memory loss more than a decade ago, potentially related to a parasite doctors found in his brain.