Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is caught in another dead animal story that is somehow weirder than him dumping a dead bear cub in Central Park.
In a profile for Town & Country magazine in 2012, Kennedy’s daughter, Kick Kennedy, recalled how her father once decapitated a dead whale and brought it home.
Kick told the magazine that when she was 6-years-old, her father heard that a dead whale had washed up on a beach in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, and rushed out to the scene with a chainsaw which he used to cut the animal’s head off.
He then secured it to the roof of his minivan with bungee cords, for a five-hour drive back to the family’s home in Mount Kisco, New York.
“Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet,” Kick told the magazine. “We all had plastic bags over our heads with mouth holes cut out, and people on the highway were giving us the finger, but that was just normal day-to-day stuff for us.”
Earlier this month Kennedy admitted to dumping a dead bear cub in Central Park in 2014 as a ‘prank’ and made it appear as if the bear was hit by a cyclist.
He explained to Roseanne Barr that a motorist had hit and killed the bear and he wanted to put the meat in his refrigerator. Kennedy explained that he was busy that day and didn’t have time to properly store the bear, so he and his friends instead dropped it in Central Park.
The resurfaced whale story comes after Kennedy announced he is dropping out of the presidential race and endorsed Donald Trump. The move earned strong rebuke from his siblings.
“We want an America filled with hope and bound together by a shared vision of a brighter future, a future defined by individual freedom, economic promise and national pride. We believe in Harris and Walz,” Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Courtney Kennedy, Kerry Kennedy, Chris Kennedy and Rory Kennedy said in a joint statement.
“Our brother Bobby’s decision to endorse Trump today is a betrayal of the values that our father and our family hold most dear. It is a sad ending to a sad story,” they added.
