Robert F. Kennedy Jr. explains how he secretly dumped a dead bear cub in Central Park — He tells Roseanne Barr that he left the animal with an old bike to make it look like a bicyclist had killed the young creature

[’Twas a prank](https://www.thewrap.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr-dead-bear-cub-central-park/):

*In a bizarre story shared by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on social media, he explained how he took a dead bear cub and dumped it in Central Park as a prank aimed at getting people to believe a bicycle had hit it and caused the animal’s death.*

*He said that he was sharing the 2014 story because the New Yorker’s fact-checkers called him and indicated they were doing a story on the event.*

*Sitting at a kitchen table, he laid the story out for actress and comedian Roseanne Barr, who he was hanging out with for some reason.*

*“I was taking a group of people falconing up in Goshen, New York, up in the Hudson Valley, and I was supposed to meet them there at like maybe 8 or 9,” Kennedy began.*

*“I was driving up maybe, you know, really early, like 7, and then a woman in a van in front of me hit a bear and killed it. 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,” Kennedy said. “And it was very good condition, and I was going to put the meat in my refrigerator. And you can do that in New York state — you can get a bear tag for a roadkill bear.”*

*“And so then we went hawking and I had the bear in my car. And then we had a really good day, and we went late. We were catching a lot of game, and the people really loved it, so we stayed late. And instead of going back to my home in Westchester, I had to go right to the city, because there was a dinner at Peter Luger’s Steak House.”*

 

*“And at the end of the dinner, it went late, and I realized I couldn’t go home — I had to go to the airport.” That’s when he had a realization: “And the bear was in my car, and I didn’t want to leave the bear in the car, because, well, that would have been bad.”*

*“So then I thought, you know, at that time — this was the little bit of the redneck in me. There’d been a series of bicycle accidents in New York, they had just put in the bike lanes,” Kennedy ominously continued. “And some people, a couple of people had gotten killed, and it was every day, and people had been badly injured. Every day, it was in the press.”*

*“And so I thought — I wasn’t drinking, of course, but people were drinking with me who thought this was a good idea,” he continued.*

*“And I said, I had an old bike in my car that somebody had asked me to get rid of, and I said, ‘Let’s go put the bear in the Central Park, and we’ll make it look like he got hit by a bike’ — it would be fun, funny for people.”*

*“So everybody thought, ‘That’s a great idea,’ so we went and did that,” Kennedy said, continuing his description of the kind of idea that people think is genius while they’re drunk.*

*“And we thought it would be amusing for whoever found it or something.”*

Can only imagine the other skeletons in his closet