this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2024
198 points (96.3% liked)

News

23305 readers
3692 users here now

Welcome to the News community!

Rules:

1. Be civil


Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.


2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.


Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.


3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.


Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.


4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.


Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.


5. Only recent news is allowed.


Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.


6. All posts must be news articles.


No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.


7. No duplicate posts.


If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.


8. Misinformation is prohibited.


Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.


9. No link shorteners.


The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.


10. Don't copy entire article in your post body


For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

It wasn’t just the dead bear.

Days after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. admitted to taking a bear carcass from the side of the road and placing it in Central Park as a prank a decade ago, he said that has been picking up roadkill his “whole life” and once had a “freezer full of it” at home.

The comment came as the independent presidential candidate was leaving an upstate New York courtroom Wednesday where he had testified in a lawsuit seeking to exclude him from the state’s ballot in November.

The trial has focused on whether Kennedy improperly listed a residence in the New York City suburb of Katonah as his home address on his nominating petitions, when he has actually been living in the Los Angeles area since 2014.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 18 points 2 months ago (3 children)

TBH it's not that weird to keep roadkill. That's a thing that happens in more rural areas; a deer gets hit, game warden gets called, and then the person that hit the deer takes it home, field dresses, and butchers it. I personally know a few people that have done this, because it feels really wasteful to kill a deer and then just leave it to rot and be picked apart by crows and vultures.

Given that bears tend to have very high rates of parasitic infections though, I don't think I'd do this with bear at all.

[–] ZapBeebz_@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Depends on the roadkill, honestly. Deer as roadkill, especially if you're the one who hit it (or saw it hit) isn't too bad, because it's already an animal normally eaten, and is reasonably fresh.

Now a raccoon that's been on the side of the road for god knows how long...that's a different story.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes, I should have specified that you need to see it hit, or come across it very, very shortly afterwards.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Tug at the fur. If it stays in, you're good. If it comes out, then it's been there too long.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

🤮

If I didn't see it get hit, or personally put it out of it's misery after being hit, I ain't risking it.

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

He used to keep roadkill in the fridge to feed his pet hawk. It wasn't even his fridge, it belonged to friends who would let him crash there. They'd ask why not just buy chickens for the hawk to eat, but rfk is a fucking weirdo and thought that keeping roadkill in his friend's fridge was a better feeding option for his hawk

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

The hawk likes the taste of roadkill/carrion better. My partner is trying to get in to falconry and has done an uncomfortable amount of research on the topic.

[–] cheers_queers@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

i was raised by people like this. the correct answer is that he saved a buck or two.

[–] Soulg@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah I'm confused about why this is such a big story. Dumping the bear in central park is kinda fucked up, sure, but even then is it really that huge of a story lol

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

I think that dumping a bear--in a densely populated area!--is a bigger story, but that one is more because there wasn't any attempt made AFAIK to notify relevant authorities. You aren't supposed to just pick up road-kill animals without permission, since that could easily lead to poaching. And bear, in many states, tend to have much more tightly restricted hunting, since there are far fewer of them than deer.

(I see black bears on a near daily basis where I live, but I'm in rural Appalachia.)