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His independent White House campaign has fizzled, but the flow of bizarre stories of Robert F Kennedy Jr’s unorthodox handling of the carcasses of wild mammals has experienced no similar suspension.

An environmental group is calling for a federal investigation into the former presidential candidate for an episode in which he allegedly severed the head of a washed-up whale with a chainsaw – and drove home with it strapped to his car’s roof.

The episode has parallels with another extraordinary tale reported earlier in August in which Kennedy confessed to dumping a dead bear cub in New York’s Central Park and attempted to make it look like the animal was killed by a bicyclist.

The latest grisly revelation, about the whale head, is not particularly new – it stems from a 2012 interview Kennedy’s daughter Kick gave to Town & Country magazine, in which she talks about a visit to other family members of the political dynasty in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, more than two decades prior.

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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 148 points 2 years ago

His daughter:

“Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet. We all had plastic bags over our heads with mouth holes cut out, and people on the highway were giving us the finger, but that was just normal day to day stuff for us.”

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 60 points 2 years ago

Note that he intentionally took his kids to watch him saw the head off and put it on the car and take it home. Because he apparently liked to "study" such things. Weird as fuck.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 39 points 2 years ago

All his life he has spent an unusual amount of time around animal corpses. Dead animals are kind of his thing.

[-] littlewonder@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I learned this from the Behind the Bastards podcast's recent RFL Jr. series. It came up so much it was an ongoing callback joke lol.

[-] Riccosuave@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm sorry, I couldn't help myself...

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 46 points 2 years ago

That... sounds real.

[-] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 2 years ago

Just a not weird family drive through the country. Seriously though, I'm betting the Harris campaign is sitting on several more of these stories that will roll out over the next couple months.

I'm also wondering where his collection is right now. If he's being investigated for a federal crime, there may be a search warrant in the works.

[-] IamSparticles@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 years ago

Look, guys... he already admitted that he's not a choir boy. So just drop it, already. Sheesh. /s

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago

whale juice would pour into the windows of the car

Why...

Why wouldn't you roll up the windows?

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 45 points 2 years ago

Straps go through the windows?

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

Lol how would you open the doors

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You climb in and out through the window. Hardships have to be endured for a whale skull.

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

Jesus Christ, this guy is legitimately fucking unwell. Like, what the fuck?

[-] tacosplease@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

There's not always the little strip of metal across the top of the door. Some cars just let the glass press against a foam rubber seal when the door is shut. Infiniti G35 windows were like that.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You can still close the windows on the straps, assuming they're flat straps.

I've personally seen too many people try strapping things to their car through open windows because they didn't plan on how they would get into their cars. It's far too likely that mr. brain worms simply strapped the doors shut and crawled in through the windows.

[-] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 years ago

You remove the straps then open the doors.

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

And then the load shifts on the roof, and you get in. How will you tighten the straps?

Why not just run the straps around with the doors open

[-] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago

Generally there are more than two windows....

But I never said any of this was a good idea, just answering how you can do it. Some car doors won't close with a strap in there (my old Chrysler Lebaron for example, $800 of "Its technically driveable"), so me and a friend went in through the windows.

I had town car, all four doors would close just fine, but the station wagon only the front doors would close (so backseat meant crawling through the trunk, aka the fifth seat).

You do what you gotta do

[-] Dhar@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 years ago

Normal Kennedy day. They only roll the windows up when things get weird.

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago

Based on what I'm hearing about the guy, I wouldn't be surprised if the windows and/or AC were broken and they just left it like that.

[-] p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago
[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

people on the highway were giving us the finger, but that was just normal day to day stuff for us.

Right, so when they're not driving around with whale heads, he's just a reckless driver. Must run in the family.

[-] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Remember folks, there are delusional centrists who love this guy and think he speaks for the working man.

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