Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted a video to his X/Twitter account on Sunday during which he admitted to discarding a useless bear cub in New York Metropolis’s Central Park a decade in the past.
The video, which seems to have been launched forward of an upcoming New Yorker article, exhibits Kennedy telling Roseanne Barr the story of his morning encounter with the bear whereas driving to Goshen, New York, to go falconry. The video lasts a bit over three minutes, and Barr and Kennedy seem like discussing the story over breakfast within the spacious kitchen.
“A lady in a van in entrance of me hit a bear and killed it – a cub,” Kennedy recalled. “So, I pulled over and 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 actually good situation and I used to be going to place the meat within the freezer. You You are able to do this in New York State and you may get a bear tag for a roadkill bear.
However the Falcon’s day took longer than anticipated, and as an alternative of returning residence to Westchester, Kennedy went straight to New York Metropolis for dinner at Peter Luger’s Steakhouse. After dinner he needed to catch a flight, however the flight was additionally delayed.
“The bear was in my automotive and I did not wish to depart it within the automotive as a result of that might be unhealthy,” he stated. “So, then I believed, you realize, it is a little little bit of a redneck in me on the time. There was a collection of motorbike accidents in New York. That they had simply put in bike lanes, so a number of individuals have been being killed day by day, and a few have been critically injured. Information The world stories on this day by day.
Kennedy stated he had an concept involving “an outdated bicycle I had in my automotive that somebody requested me to eliminate.”
“I stated, ‘Let’s go put the bear in Central Park and we’ll make it seem like it was hit by a bicycle,'” Kennedy stated within the video. He insisted he was not ingesting on the time, however the individuals he was with have been ingesting and thought it was a “good concept”.
“The subsequent day, it was like each TV station was on it. It was the entrance web page of each newspaper, and I turned on the TV and noticed a mile of yellow tape, 20 police vehicles, helicopters flying over it. I used to be like , ‘Oh my God, what did I do? After which they noticed some man on TV sporting a Tyvek swimsuit and sporting gloves holding up the bike and so they stated they have been going to take it to Albany to get fingerprinted,'” he stated. “I used to be apprehensive as a result of that bike had my footprints throughout it.”
Kennedy famous that “the story died down after some time” till The New Yorker just lately contacted him to confirm particulars in regards to the bear incident.
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Kennedy’s choice to launch his video dialog with Barr will even draw consideration. Barr, an outspoken, blue-collar comic who starred within the hit sitcom “Roseanne” within the Nineteen Eighties and Nineteen Nineties, has been on the fringes of leisure lately. In 2018, Barr made her comeback on ABC’s “Roseanne” however was criticized for racist feedback she made on Twitter about former Obama White Home adviser Valerie Jarrett. The comeback was interrupted.
