Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s copping to a viral thriller that after had New Yorkers baffled … admitting he dumped a dull bear carcass into Central Park and tossed a motorcycle on excessive of it as a joke.

The unbiased candidate for president posted a video to his official X account Sunday describing the incident seemingly to get ahead of a story shortly to be revealed by The New Yorker.

Within the bizarre video, RFK Jr. is sitting in a consuming room explaining he as quickly as went to Goshen, New York on a falconing journey and whereas driving there he claims a girl in entrance of him hit and killed a bear cub.

Kennedy, not one to waste good bear meat, says he grabbed the cub and tossed it in his automotive — an movement he says is allowed beneath New York state regulation.

After a day of falconing, which went later than anticipated, Kennedy says he drove to dinner in NYC with buddies as an alternative of heading home to Westchester to refrigerate the bear.

The dinner moreover went prolonged … and RFK Jr. had a flight to catch — nonetheless, he didn’t want to go away the bear inside his automotive.

As another of calling anyone to come back again select up the automotive with the bear in it, he and his dinner companions thought it could be humorous to take the bear and put it in Central Park with an outdated bicycle on excessive of it.

On the time, RFK Jr. outlined, a group of pedestrians had been hit and killed by bicyclists throughout the park … and he and his — admittedly drunken — companions thought whoever found the bear would uncover it amusing.

After all, they didn’t — and, authorities, along with the NYPD’s Animal Cruelty Investigation Squad, rushed to Central Park to investigate … lastly though the investigation misplaced steam, and Kennedy says no one ever contacted him until the New Yorker researchers put two and two collectively.

Value noting … Kennedy’s response all through this video’s pretty nonchalant — even though many on-line are completely shocked by this saga.