Activists say Kennedy could’ve committed felony violation for allegedly driving with whale skull strapped to car roof

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.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    144·
    23 days 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.”

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      56·
      23 days 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.caEnglish
        37·
        23 days ago

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

    • N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      36·
      23 days 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.zipEnglish
        7·
        23 days ago

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

    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
      4·
      22 days 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·
      22 days ago

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