Presidential hopeful, brainworm survivor and lifeless bear relocator Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is a bizarre man. His marketing campaign has remained form of within the highlight due to his identify and due to the unusual shit he does and says. Properly, after this week’s lifeless bear in Central Park incident, we’ve acquired a brand new bizarre RFK Jr. proven fact that could be very becoming: the person collects roadkill.
Kennedy instructed reporters that he had been selecting up roadkill his “complete life” and at one level he had a “freezer filled with it” at his home, in keeping with the Related Press. God, I like this man. The feedback from the unbiased presidential candidate got here following a listening to in an upstate New York courtroom the place he had testified in a lawsuit searching for to exclude him from the state’s poll in November.
In a social media video posted earlier this week, Kennedy instructed comic and right-wing weirdo Roseanne Barr that he deliberate to pores and skin the bear, which was in “superb situation,” in keeping with the AP. He went on to say, “I used to be going to place the meat in my fridge.” Nonetheless, he didn’t say what the hell he was going to do with it. Properly, on August 7 reporters requested him if he picked up different roadkill, and far to my delight, he has.
“I’ve been selecting up roadkill my complete life,” Kennedy instructed the group. I had a freezer filled with it.”
He even boasted that the bridge was over “a thousand cubic ft,” in keeping with The Each day Beast, however that turned out to be hyperbole (thank Christ).
That being mentioned, a spokesperson for the Kennedy marketing campaign confirmed to the AP that he wasn’t joking in regards to the existence of a roadkill fridge.
She mentioned that’s how Kennedy — a falconer who trains ravens — feeds his birds. She added that he not has the 21 cubic foot (0.59 cubic meter) fridge, which had been in New York’s Westchester County suburbs.
Quite a lot of this strangeness has overshadowed why Kennedy was in courtroom within the first place. Mainly, New York needs him off the poll as a result of he allegedly lied on his nominating petitions, saying the New York Metropolis suburb of Katonah was his major residence. Essentially, he has lived within the Los Angeles space since 2014, the AP studies. Oops.
Roadkill is a horrible reality of life wherever autos and nature meet (which implies, just about all over the place.) As many as a million animals are killed in highway strikes yearly, however getting flattened isn’t the worst factor that may occur to an animal attributable to our dependancy to automobiles, As Bloomberg explains:
There’s the truth that highway noise is driving songbirds away from essential migratory stopover areas. There’s what scientists have known as the “transferring fence” of site visitors, this impermeable wall of autos that stops animals like elk and pronghorn from migrating throughout the American West and reaching their winter vary. There’s the truth that highway salts, which we dump on highways in portions that beggars perception, are turning freshwater ecosystems brackish. Half the lakes within the Midwest are experiencing long-term salinization, which is an ominous phrase.
