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.
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.”
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.
All his life he has spent an unusual amount of time around animal corpses. Dead animals are kind of his thing.
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.
I’m sorry, I couldn’t help myself…
That… sounds real.
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.
what the fuck
Remember folks, there are delusional centrists who love this guy and think he speaks for the working man.
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.
whale juice would pour into the windows of the car
Why…
Why wouldn’t you roll up the windows?
Straps go through the windows?
Lol how would you open the doors
You climb in and out through the window. Hardships have to be endured for a whale skull.
I must have ambergris
Jesus Christ, this guy is legitimately fucking unwell. Like, what the fuck?
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.
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.
I know the meme is Ted Cruz being the Zodiac killer, but are we sure it isn’t actually RFK Jr?
Wrong coast. But considering the family said that he likes to “study” things like whale skulls, I wouldn’t exactly be shocked if he had a human skull or two in his collection.
He likes to play among rotting carcasses… behind the bastards had a really interesting podcast about him.
Tried to give the show a listen. Couldn’t get passed the terrible jokes and laughing and turned it off in less than 5 minutes. Any recommendations on a more serious show like Behind the Bastards?
RFK Jr: “This is a cool story, right? People will think I’m cool?”
Brain Worm: “Yes! Yes! And tell them about the bear!”
Beautiful. If Kirsty Noem taught us anything, it’s that charming stories about animals are all the rage.
Cards against humanity-ass title
It was already tough being in a world where it’s hard to see the difference between the onion articles and actual news. Now we’re on a completely new level where news can be the result of playing CAH. It’s kinda funny until you stop to think how terrible it is.
Little know fact. A worm crawled into his skull and ate a piece of his brain. The brain then died, and that’s RFK JR.
I heard his brain was so poisoned that the worm just died and was rotting in there.
Who is piloting that shit show of a man then? Perhaps a bear shed it skin for a laugh and slipped into his man suit?
It wouldn’t be Lemmy if we didn’t make fun of mentally disabled people 🥰🥰🥰
I’d have less of a problem with mentally disabled people if they would stop running for president.
Any person with down syndrome would be more competent and have significantly more empathy than several former US presidents I can think of.
Trump: “People are calling us weird! Quick, bring on someone that is weirder than me and Vance!”
Staffers: “Turn on the RFK signal!”
The worst part IMO is using a chainsaw on a necrotizing, possibly rotten whale carcass. Chainsaws do not cut soft objects - like tissues - so much as they shred the hell out of them. That means a lot of splattered, fish-stench horror and fluids. And he probably didn’t wear so much as a smock for protection.
Okay, but if it was already dead, and he didn’t kill it, what’s the big deal?
“Mr Kennedy’s apparent transport of the marine mammal skull from Massachusetts to New York, and therefore across state lines, also represented a felony violation of the Lacey Act, one of the earliest wildlife conservation laws enacted by [the] United States in 1900,” he wrote, adding that it was also illegal to possess part of any animal protected by the endangered species act.
Oh.
I think the purpose of that language is to prevent
peoplehunters claiming they just happened to find it dead.I hate when actions that cause no harm are made illegal, just because actions that do cause harm are harder to investigate.
Yep! Everyone on lemmy acting like this guy harpooned the thing himself. Technically illegal? Sure. But not the sort of thing that’s usually prosecuted unless some sort of public attention is drawn.
Just to be clear though… whether the things he is doing are technically illegal or not… they’re batshit insane. This privileged socialite just running around the US bagging himself any carcasses that aren’t nailed down, transporting them large distances, and sometimes dumping them in places…
Lucky for him nobody has drawn public attention to it.
Maybe I was lied to in boy scouts but I was told that law even prevents you from keeping a feather naturally dropped by a bald eagle. So cutting the head off an endangered animal would definitely be a no no.
All feathers are illegal, but they will most certainly throw the book at you for Eagle feathers. The animal rescues have to transport dead bald eagles to the federal government where they get DNA tested and cataloged and feathers are only distributed to Native Americans who have gone through a permit process. A first time offense is a $100k fine and a year in prison.
Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act
Handling and Distribution of Bald and Golden Eagles and Parts
This is exactly as mentioned in other comments, to prevent the “it was already dead when I got here” excuse.
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Are we sure John McAfee didn’t fake his death and change his name to RFK? Cause this is some weird-ass John McAfee shit.
Can we not use John McAfee and shit on the same sentence anymore? IYKYK
I don’t know, and honestly I’m a little afraid to look it up…
I say we make him americas next prime minister
Man, Kennedys end up with a shocking number of dead things in their cars.
A truly mind blowing amount.
They’re drowning in it.
Ever read a comment that’s so damned clever you bail out the internet, knowing you won’t find another lightning in a bottle post any time soon?
I don’t . . . What . . . How is . . .
Imma go lay down.
TLDR; he ate a racoon.
In his defence, he thought it was human meat.
Lots of people eat racoons, that’s far from the being this guys problem.
So the unspoken bit about RFK Jr. is that he’s a tweaker, right?
I mean, the details are all in the context of politically entitled progeny, but the underlying vibe I get from the stories about him is very reminiscent of the tweakers I’ve known over the years.
Watch the Behind the Bastards on him, he at least used to be really into drugs even got one of his brothers addicted.
Edit: Pretty sure it was the brother that died from a drug overdose.
