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Thar She Blows! RFK, Jr. Decapitated Whale Tale Leads To Mt. Kisco
A bizarre story from the former POTUS candidate's daughter has "resurfaced" and is migrating Westchester into the national conversation.
MOUNT KISCO, NY — New York City lays claim to the park where the former presidential candidate left a bear carcass for tourists to find, but it turns out, just a few miles to the north, Mount Kisco is home to an even "bigger" tale of RFK, Jr. transporting a dead animal away from its expected resting place.
In 2012, Kick Kennedy shared a whale of a tale in "Town & Country" magazine. Now, the Daily Beast reports that the story of the famous Kennedy strapping the head of a whale to the top of the family car and taking it to his Westchester home is once again going viral, thanks in part to the independent presidential candidate's decision to leave the race and back the Republican candidate.
According to his daughter, in 1994, Kennedy learned that a dead whale had washed up on a beach in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. According to Kick Kennedy, her dad took a chainsaw and his then-6-year-old daughter to the beach where he cut the whale’s head off, strapped it to the roof of the car, and made the long drive back to Mount Kisco.
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"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," Kick told Town & Country. "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."
The story first resurfaced over the weekend after Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed former-President Donald Trump, according to Newsweek.
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There is no indication in the accounts where the ultimate disposition of the whale skull was. It could be that someday an archeologist will make a find in landlocked Mount Kisco that makes finding a bear cub in Central Park seem like child's play.
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