In an sudden flip of occasions, the Bennifer breakup has led to the invention of what seems to be one other weird story of Robert F. Kennedy Jr and a lifeless animal.
Following a tabloid report that Kennedy’s daughter Kathleen Alexandra “Kick” Kennedy has been noticed spending time with actor Ben Affleck amid his divorce from Jennifer Lopez, it seems the web collectively Googled the under-the-radar member of the Kennedy clan over the weekend.
What they discovered was a 2012 profile of the 36-year-old in City & Nation by which she shared an anecdote about her father which the author characterised for instance of his “eccentric environmentalism.”
The story goes that someday within the mid-Nineteen Nineties, a six-year-old Kick joined her dad as he retrieved the pinnacle of a lifeless whale from a seaside close to the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port.
Kennedy — who on Friday suspended his long-shot presidential marketing campaign and threw his help behind Donald Trump — decapitated the whale with a chainsaw, Kick stated.
He then secured its head to the roof of the household minivan with bungee cords, Kick added.
What Kennedy apparently supposed to do with the whale’s head was not specified, however the article did notice he “likes to check animal skulls and skeletons.”
Per Kick’s retelling, the household got here right into a little bit of an issue as soon as they bought on the street for the five-hour drive again to their house in New York.
“Each time we accelerated on the freeway, whale juice would pour into the home windows of the automotive, and it was the rankest factor on the planet,” Kick stated.
She recalled that to take care of the leaking whale juice, “all of us had plastic baggage over our heads with mouth holes minimize out.”
“Individuals on the freeway had been giving us the finger,” she added.
“However that was simply regular day-to-day stuff for us,” Kick, named after her great-aunt Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy Cavendish, stated of her childhood.
A consultant for Kennedy didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark despatched by Enterprise Insider.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been linked to quite a few weird headlines.
Earlier this month, the 70-year-old got here clear about taking a lifeless bear cub from the street and planting it in Central Park in 2014, which led to native information protection.
Forward of his involvement within the bear story being reported, Kennedy instructed comic Roseanne Barr in a video posted X that he supposed to pores and skin the animal and retailer the meat in his fridge. Nevertheless, on the encouragement of his associates he went forward with the prank as an alternative.
He left the lifeless bear on prime of a motorbike together with the street. Per The New Yorker, “an individual with data of the occasion stated that Kennedy thought it could be humorous to make it look as if the animal had been killed by an errant bike owner.”
A photograph of Kennedy pretending to grimace along with his hand within the lifeless eight-month-old bear cub’s bloody mouth was shared by the publication and immediately went viral.
Per the state report detailing the necropsy the Division of Environmental Conservation carried out on the bear cub, obtained by BI, Kennedy could have been touching the bear’s leaked mind tissue.
Kennedy joked that sticking his hand within the bear’s mouth might have been how he bought his mind worm.
Nevertheless, he testified in regards to the parasite in his skull in a deposition two years earlier than the bear was killed, in line with The New York Instances.
Days after the bear story got here out, Kennedy instructed reporters that the bear wasn’t the one lifeless animal he’d taken from the street.
“I have been choosing up roadkill my entire life,” Kennedy instructed reporters, per NBC. “I’ve a freezer filled with it. A thousand cubic-foot freezer.”
A spokesperson clarified to the Related Press that the freezer was solely 21 cubic ft.
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