Internet Melts Down Over RFK Admitting To Dumping Dead Bear In Central Park

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In a stranger than fiction twist, independent presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. has confessed to being the culprit who left a dead bear cub in Central Park a decade ago and social media users lost their minds.

The incident dates back to October 2014 when a dog walker stumbled upon a dead bear in New York City’s famed Central Park and alerted a Central Park Conservancy worker, who then called the police.

An investigation by the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) determined that a vehicle had run over the six-month-old bear, causing its death.

However, the mystery of how the bear ended up in the park remained unsolved until RFK Jr. made his bizarre confession on Sunday.

As if it couldn’t get weirder, Kennedy made the admission in a video he made with canceled conservative comedian Roseanne Barr in what appears to be one of their homes.

Kennedy, 70, admitted to Barr that he was present when the bear met its end and took responsibility for placing it in Central Park.

The presidential hopeful had been driving to Southern New York to take a group out falconing, when he saw the animal get struck.

“A woman in the van in front of me hit a bear and killed it, a young bear,” he recalled. “I pulled over, picked up the bear, and put it in the back of my van.”

Kennedy said that he planned to skin the bear as it was “in excellent condition,” and put the meat in his refrigerator.

“You can do that in New York state,” he noted. “You can get a bear tag for roadkill bear.”

After loading up the bear into his vehicle, Kennedy went on his falconing trip with the carcass in the back.

He said that his group had been catching a lot of game and continued to hunt late into the day.

At that point, he drove straight to New York City for a dinner reservation at Peter Luger Steakhouse, rather than heading home to Westchester, NY.

After a lengthy dinner, Kennedy said he had to go directly to the airport rather than returning home, but had a beary large problem.

“The bear was in my car, and I didn’t want to leave it there because that would have been bad,” Kennedy said likely referring to the smell of the rotting animal.

He admitted that was a “little bit of the redneck” in him, which led to the convoluted plan of dumping the bear cub in the park.

Kennedy told Barr that at the time, a spate of bicycle accidents in the city made headlines, after resulting in multiple fatalities and serious injuries.

He also mentioned having an old bike in his car that someone had asked him to dispose of.

“I said let’s go put the bear in Central Park, and we’ll make it look like it got hit by a bike,” Kennedy said, laughing with Barr. “Everyone thought that was a great idea.”

While he clarified that he had not been drinking when he concocted the plan, others involved had.

He recalled waking up the next day to find that every major news outlet in the city was covering the dead bear.

“I turned on the TV and it was like, mile of yellow tape, and there were 20 cop cars. Helicopters were flying over,” he said. “I thought, ‘Oh my god, what did I do?'”

Kennedy was scared that he would be identified by leaving his fingerprints on the bike he left at the scene, but got lucky when the news cycle moved on and the story “stayed dead for a decade.”

It seems Kennedy decided to reveal his involvement because The New Yorker is about to resurrect the tale of the bear cub left in the park, and somehow found out he was behind it.

Kennedy got in front of their story by posting the video on social media himself and tagging The New Yorker with the caption, “Looking forward to seeing how you spin this one.”

“It’s going to be a bad article,” Kennedy noted in the footage.

The internet lost their collective minds over the former Democrat’s bizarre tale.

“You don’t get weirder than RFK Jr. talking to Roseanne about dumping a bear in Central Park in an attempt to get ahead of a story about it,” one X user wrote. “We have his version, I’ll be interested to hear the real story. This man is a maniac.”

“For the longest time it was a Manhattan parlor game to try and come up with a weird enough story to explain how a dead bear cub ended up in Central Park,” someone commented. “But no one guessed RFK jr. had to drive to JFK but the dead bear in his van needed to be dropped off first.”

“What RFK Jr did here is unforgivable,” another teed up. “I mean, who in their right mind would hang out with Roseanne Barr.”

“Am I the only one that thinks the weirdest part of the new RFK Jr story is he was gonna eat the road kill bear?” one person questioned.

“I’m more surprised that this story was about a dead bear, and not a dead prostitute,” somebody quipped.

A photo of Kennedy posing with the bear’s carcass and making it look like it was biting him was released by the New Yorker on Monday.

In response to the image, he simply commented: “Maybe that’s where I got my brain worm,” in reference to the parasite he contracted decades ago.

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