Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he left a dead bear in Cen­tral Park as a prank

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Inde­pen­dent pres­i­den­tial can­di­date Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once retrieved a bear that was killed by a motorist and left it in New York’s Cen­tral Park with a bicy­cle on top, spark­ing a mys­tery that con­sumed the city a decade ago.
Kennedy describes the inci­dent in a video that was post­ed to social media Sun­day, adding it will be includ­ed in a forth­com­ing New York­er arti­cle that he expects to be dam­ag­ing.
It’s the lat­est bizarre inci­dent in Kennedy’s quixot­ic cam­paign that has divid­ed his famous fam­i­ly and left Repub­li­cans and Democ­rats alike con­cerned about his poten­tial impact on the pres­i­den­tial con­test. Kennedy has acknowl­edged a par­a­site that lodged in his brain and died. He denied eat­ing a dog after a friend shared a pho­to with Van­i­ty Fair mag­a­zine show­ing Kennedy dra­mat­i­cal­ly prepar­ing to take a bite of a charred anim …