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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Sawed the Head Off a Whale and Drove It Home, Daughter Says

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Submitted ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨silence7@slrpnk.net⁩ to ⁨nyt_gift_articles@sopuli.xyz⁩

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/27/us/politics/rfk-jr-whale-head.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GE4.wKs4.c6nBgJOJYvTl&smid=em-share

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  • Donjuanme@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That would be very very illegal. And weird. But holy shit illegal. (Was part of the Marine mammal education resource program over a decade ago)

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Mr. Kennedy, he wrote, may have violated not only the Marine Mammal Protection Act (1972) and the Endangered Species Act (1973) — two seminal marine conservation laws — but also the Lacey Act of 1900, a conservation law signed by President William McKinley that prohibits the transportation of illegally gathered wildlife, dead or alive, across state lines.

      Wow, yeah, I wasn’t expecting it to be that illegal!

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    • silence7@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah. If he still has the skull, there’s the potential for prosecution.

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      • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        He is probably trying to ditch it. Has anyone checked the ponds in Central Park?

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If I had a nickel for every time RFK Jr. tried to take dead wildlife home with him, I’d have apparently a lot more than two nickels, and that’s really fuckin’ weird.

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    • Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There was a time when I was astounded that he managed to get brainworms and wondered how it was even possible.

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  • fox2263@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Perfectly normal thing to do. Not weird at all

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  • distantsounds@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Who doesn’t bring a chainsaw with them to the beach?

    That article is packed with gems

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  • Spitzspot@lemmings.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s damn weird.

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  • fubarx@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Come on. Who hasn’t done that on a weekend trip to the beach?

    [ I hope I don’t have to put /s on that. But, yeah, just in case. ]

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  • dumbass@leminal.space ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Does this family not know how to shut the fuck up, why do they keep freely, at their own will, tell these stories?

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    • silence7@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      His family wants to keep him far away from any ability go exercise power

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    • smeenz@lemmy.nz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Because they don’t want him to win

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  • slickgoat@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I read the story, and yeah, it checks out that’s exactly what he’d do.

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  • PeachMan@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Who cares, he dropped out. Stop giving this weirdo space in your brain.

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    • silence7@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He’s co-chair of the Trump transition and likely to be appointed to ve secretary of health and human services if Trump wins

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      • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        This timeline gets weirder and weirder every day.

        I’m sure I took a wrong coloured pill at some point in my life.

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      • drolex@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Smh he should be appointed secretary of transporting dead carcasses of endangered species, he has a special ability for this. Think of all the jobs this could create. Wasted talent in my opinion

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