RFK Jr. decapitated a dead whale and drove it home for 5 hours: daughter

What they found was a 2012 profile of the 36-year-old in Town & Country, in which she shared an anecdote about her father that the writer characterized as an example of his “eccentric environmentalism.”

The story goes that in the mid-1990s, a six-year-old, Kick, joined her father as he retrieved the head of a dead whale from a beach near the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Harbor.

Kennedy — who on Friday suspended his long-running presidential campaign and threw his support behind Donald Trump — decapitated the whale with a hacksaw, Kick said.

He then secured her head to the roof of the family’s minivan with bungee cords, Kick added.

What Kennedy apparently intended to do with the whale head was not specified, but the article noted that he “likes to study animal skulls and skeletons.”

After Kick’s retelling, the family ran into a bit of trouble once they hit the road for the five-hour drive back to their home in New York.

“Every time we accelerated on the freeway, whale juice poured into the car windows and it was the best thing on the planet,” Kick said.

She recalled that to cope with the leaking whale juice, “we all had plastic bags over our heads with holes cut out”.

“People on the highway were giving us the finger,” she added.

“But that was just normal everyday stuff for us,” Kick, named for her great-aunt Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy Cavendish, said of her childhood.

A representative for Kennedy did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been linked to numerous bizarre titles.

Earlier this month, the 70-year-old took a dead bear cub from the road and planted it in Central Park in 2014, prompting local news coverage.

Before his involvement in the bear story was reported, Kennedy told comedian Roseanne Barr in a video posted to X that he planned to skin the animal and refrigerate the meat. However, at the encouragement of his friends, he continued with the prank.

He left the dead bear on top of a bicycle by the side of the road. According to The New Yorker, “a person familiar with the event said Kennedy thought it would be funny to make it look like the animal had been killed by a wandering bicyclist.”

A photo of Kennedy pretending to grimace with his hand in the bloodied mouth of the eight-month-old dead bear cub was shared by the publication and instantly went viral.

According to the state report detailing the Department of Environmental Conservation’s necropsy on the bear cub, obtained by BI, Kennedy may have touched the bear’s leaked brain tissue.

Kennedy joked that putting his hand in the bear’s mouth may have been how he got the worm on his brain.

However, he testified about the parasite in his skull in a deposition two years before the bear was killed, according to The New York Times.

Days after the bear story broke, Kennedy told reporters that the bear wasn’t the only dead animal he picked up off the road.

“All my life I’ve had roadkill,” Kennedy told reporters, per NBC. “I have a freezer full of it. A thousand cubic foot freezer.”

A spokesperson clarified to The Associated Press that the freezer was only 21 cubic feet.