RFK, Jr. admits to leaving dead bear cub in Central Park

August 5, 2024 Brooklyn Eagle Staff

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MANHATTAN — PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on Sunday admitted to abandoning a dead bear cub in Central Park in 2014, in a bizarre incident that baffled New Yorkers at the time, reports CBS. Kennedy appears to have come clean about his role in the mystery in an effort to pre-empt a New Yorker story about the situation that was set to be published on Monday. According to a video posted by himself on X, Kennedy came across the corpse of a bear cub as roadkill while on a falconry trip upstate and had taken the body with the intention of skinning and eating it, but due to a dinner in the city that ran late, he was unable to return with the bear to his home in time to refrigerate it before having to catch a flight. Kennedy, along with other friends at the dinner, decided the best solution would be to place the cub, along with an old bicycle Kennedy had in his car, on a bike path in Central Park and stage the scene to look like a bike accident.

“I wasn’t drinking, of course, but people were drinking with me who thought this was a good idea,” Kennedy said, adding that when the media picked up on the story, he became afraid his name would be linked to it.

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