News coverage from 2014, when the dead baby bear was found

Really amazing what brain worms cause people to do sometimes

92 points

He said that, on the fateful day, he was far from Central Park — on his way to a “falconing” excursion in Goshen, N.Y. — when he witnessed a woman in a van fatally strike the bear. He said he scooped up the dead bear and put it in his own van, planning to later skin it and eat it.

Wtf??

Hours passed, Kennedy said, and he ran out of time to take the bear home before catching a flight. As he told Barr, he and some people he was with — he said the others had been drinking — came up with a plan: abandon the bear and an old bike, which happened to be in Kennedy’s van, in the park, taking advantage of the fact that there has been a rash of bicycle accidents recently in New York.

Wtf… why? Is that what rich people do to pass the time? I could imagine a bunch of drunk college frat dudes doing this, but he was 60 years old when this happened!

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47 points

Say what you want about Kennedy, like how he is responsible for a bunch of deaths in Samoa because of his anti vax nonsense, how he is a sex addict and has been a serial abuser to his wives, or how he’s a fucking lunatic, the dude has a solid sense of humor.

He also loves falconing. He once threatened a cop by telling him he had a falcon under his coat and he’d trained it to kill cops, then he shoved the falcon in the cops face.

He would have one of his brothers lie down behind a car and hit it to make a noise, then shout ‘oh God you’ve killed another Kennedy!’. This was shortly after his father was assassinated.

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18 points

Hello fellow behind the bastards enjoyer

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11 points

Ah a man of culture

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7 points

Cop: What’s under your jacket, son?

RFK Jr: It’s a hawk, and he’s trained to kill cops!

👮‍♂️🦅

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He would have one of his brothers lie down behind a car and hit it to make a noise, then shout ‘oh God you’ve killed another Kennedy!’. This was shortly after his father was assassinated.

Goddamn, you’re right about his sense of humor, that’s funny (and dark) as fuck.

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I suggest watching the Behind the Bastards on this guy. He’s weirdly obsessed with death, dead animals, eating bush meat (how he got legitimate brain worms) and rancid rotten meat. Probably all stemming from the death of his dad and his constant abuse of psychedelics and opioids.

Edit: while he was a kid btw, still fucked up, but I’m guessing being part of the Kennedy family isn’t the best. If I remember from the BTB episode, he took acid a bunch

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7 points

Check out the Behind the Bastards episodes about him. Dude spent his teens on acid falconing and shooting rats in a farm death pit.

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3 points

What’s wrong with eating it though? Better than wasting it

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Eating undercooked animals is how you get brain worms.

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12 points

Can’t get 'em twice!

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7 points

I think something like 80% of bear meat contains trichinosis.

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0 points

I’m surprised I didn’t know that, some people definitely eat it in my hick-ass hometown

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74 points

He said he scooped up the dead bear and put it in his own van, planning to later skin it and eat it.

Brain worm origin story?

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It’s as reasonable a hypothesis as any other at this point

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58 points

How many of us can say we never ran out of time to take a dead bear home to skin it and looked around desperately for a place in Manhattan to dump the carcass? If anything, this makes him more relatable.

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14 points

Very presidential.

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50 points

“He said he scooped up the dead bear and put it in his own van, planning to later skin it and eat it.”

Fun fact:

https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/06/outbreak-of-trichinellosis-in-3-states-linked-to-bear-meat-consumption/

Suddenly the brain worm story makes a lot more sense. That happens when you eat undercooked roadkill.

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26 points

It gets better. You should listen to the Behind the Bastards episode on him.

Homie just loves eating rotten meat.

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19 points

I’ve heard of calling politicians vultures but this is ridiculous.

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6 points

train by day joe rogan podcast by night

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46 points

Republicans stop being weird for like 5 minutes.

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Oh god another word im gonna have to remove from my lexicon

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Except he’s a democrat. Democrats aren’t immune to weirdo conservatives

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65 points

He didn’t run in the Democratic primary because while Democrats can be weird, Democratic voters, including the rest of the Kennedy family, tend to reject this kind of weird.

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37 points

Because this isn’t weird. This is just completely fucking insane.

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22 points

He’s as much a Democrat as my cat is a Democrat.

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12 points

My cat is weird. Do you think she might be a republican?

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8 points

Democat

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16 points

He’s not a republican or a democrat.

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12 points

The Republicans can have him. They love this brain worm kind of stuff. Right up their alley.

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6 points

That’s true, but only as of like a year ago. He was a Democrat for like 50 years. Doesn’t make this (or him) any less reprehensible and bat-shit crazy. I, for one, am glad he changed to an independent party affiliation.

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6 points

Which is why he wants a spot in Trump’s cabinet in exchange for an endorsement?

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