Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Admits He Dumped a Dead Bear Cub in Central Park, Made It Look Like It Was Hit by a Bicycle

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is sharing another strange story.

The 70-year-old independent presidential candidate admitted to dumping a dead bear cub in Central Park in New York City, and then making it look like the bear had been hit by a bicycle.

The admission comes almost a decade after the story first made headlines.

On Sunday (August 4), the shared a video on social media showing him sharing the story with Roseanne Barr.

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Back in October of 2014, the story first got media attention with then-New York Times reporter Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of former President John F. Kennedy.

Kennedy said he and some friends dumped the bear cub, and he had decided to share the story now because the New Yorker will be including the incident in a forthcoming article.

Kennedy explained he’d been “taking a group of people falconing” in Goshen in the Hudson Valley when a woman in the van in front of him hit and killed a young bear.

“So I pulled over and I picked up the bear and put him in the back of my van because I was going to skin the bear, and it was very good condition,” he recalled.

“I was going to put the meat in my refrigerator,” he added.

He then went hawking with the bear in his car, before heading back to the city for a dinner. Dinner apparently went late, so he didn’t have time to stop at his home in Westchester County before heading to the airport.

Since there were “series of bicycle accidents in New York” at the time, he decided to make it look like the bear had been hit by a bike.

“I wasn’t drinking, of course, but people were drinking with me who thought this was a good idea. And I said I had an old bike in my car that somebody asked me to get rid of,” he said.

“I said, ‘Let’s go put the bear in Central Park, and we’ll make it look like he got hit by a bike,’” Kennedy continued, adding: “Everybody thought, ‘That’s a great idea!’ ”

“We thought it would be amusing for whoever found it, or something,” he said.

“The next day it was on every television station. I was like, ‘Oh my God, what did I do?’ ”

“I was worried because my prints were all over that bike … Luckily, the story died down after a while,” Kennedy said.

“It’s gonna be a bad story,” he added while talking about the New Yorker‘s proposed article.

A day later, the news outlet published a piece titled “What Does Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Actually Want?”, which included details about the bear incident.

Reporter Clare Malone wrote that Kennedy had been approached for comment on a picture showing him putting his fingers inside the bear’s mouth, he responded: “Maybe that’s where I got my brain worm,” seemingly referencing a New York Times report stating doctors suspected a worm had eaten part of his brain. Get more details about that.

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