New Records Reveal the Mess RFK Jr. Left When He Dumped a Dead Bear in Central Park

"Kennedy claims that he put the bear in his van with a plan to "skin the bear" and "put the meat in my refrigerator" because she was in "very good condition." "And you can do that in New York State, you can get a bear tag for a roadkill bear," Kennedy adds. He and his friends had a wonderful time falconing, Kennedy says, and the day grew late."

""I wasn't drinking, of course, but people were drinking with me who thought this was a good idea," Kennedy says, insisting for the second time that he was absolutely not breaking any laws that day. "I had an old bike in my car that somebody had asked me to get rid of. I said, 'Let's go put the bear in Central Park and we'll make it look like he got hit by a bike.' It'd be fun, funny for people.""

Kennedy took a group falconing in Goshen, New York, when a woman in a van hit and killed a bear. He put the bear in his van with a plan to skin it and store the meat in his refrigerator because the animal appeared to be in very good condition. He noted New York allows a bear tag for roadkill. After falconing, he delayed returning home and brought the bear toward Brooklyn. Running late for an airport trip, he and companions who had been drinking decided to place the bear in Central Park to make it look like a bicycle accident.

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