Quote from: JimboToronto on November 24, 2024, 04:48:55 PM

Quote from: Lucius on November 24, 2024, 04:10:17 PM

... the one who got worms in his brain and because of that killed a bear and left it in Central Park NY next to an old bicycle thinking that people would think that the bear was really killed by some crazy cyclist...

Maybe the bear was the crazy cyclist trying to make his escape.

Isn't there a zoo in Central Park?

There's actually one right there, but according to the story, the bear ended up in the park in a different way. Although the bear unfortunately ended tragically, I definitely like your version of the story better

Quote from: https://www.npr.org/2024/08/05/nx-s1-5063939/rfk-jr-central-park-bear-bicycle

Kennedy, an animal lover and former environmental lawyer, says he was driving upstate early one morning to take a group of people falconing in the Hudson Valley when a driver in front of him fatally hit a bear cub.

“So I pulled over and I picked up the bear and put him in the back of my van, because I was gonna skin the bear,” he explains matter-of-factly. “It was in very good condition and I was gonna put the meat in my refrigerator.”

Kennedy added that it is legal in New York State to get a bear tag to take home a roadkill bear. Such a tag must be written up by a law enforcement officer.

The bear never made it back to his Westchester home, however.

Kennedy says he got waylaid by a busy day of falconry, and then had to rush back to New York City for a dinner at Peter Luger Steak House, which ran late.

“I had to go to the airport, and the bear was in my car, and I didn’t want to leave the bear in the car because that would have been bad,” Kennedy continues.

Then, as he put it, “the little bit of the redneck in me” had an idea.

Kennedy just happened to have an old bike in his car, which he said someone had asked him to get rid of. He recalled that the city “had just put in the bike lanes” after a number of serious accidents, and decided to stage the bear in Central Park as if it had been hit by a bike.

“I wasn’t drinking, of course, but people were drinking with me who thought this was a good idea,” Kennedy said. “So we went and did that and we thought it would be amusing for whoever found it, or something.”