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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Tue Sep 17, 2024, 03:44 PM Tuesday

Federal agency investigating RFK Jr. after severed whale's head story resurfaces

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association is investigating Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after the resurfacing of a decades-old incident in which Kennedy allegedly drove a dead whale’s head across state lines, a representative for the agency told ABC News.

Kate Silverstein, a spokeswoman for NOAA Fisheries, told ABC News Monday that the agency was investigating Kennedy, confirming what the former independent presidential candidate told a crowd in Arizona over the weekend.

“I received a letter from the National Marine Fisheries Institute saying that they were investigating me for collecting a whale specimen 20 years ago,” Kennedy said at the event, where he was campaigning for former President Donald Trump, whom he endorsed after suspending his own campaign.

In a 2012 Town and Country article, Kennedy’s daughter, Kick Kennedy, told an anecdote about her father’s handling of a dead whale that washed up on a Massachusetts beach.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/federal-agency-investigating-rfk-jr-043100301.html

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Federal agency investigating RFK Jr. after severed whale's head story resurfaces (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Tuesday OP
"Collecting a whale specimen". LisaM Tuesday #1
A potential trump cabinet appointment carrying around whale heads? What's the big deal? Sounds normal to me! Wonder Why Tuesday #2
Let's see, zoonotic disease potential : botulism, Brucellosis, Mycobacterium spp, Toxoplasmosis... hlthe2b Tuesday #3
I know a fisherman who did that! Grins Tuesday #4

Wonder Why

(4,299 posts)
2. A potential trump cabinet appointment carrying around whale heads? What's the big deal? Sounds normal to me!
Tue Sep 17, 2024, 03:52 PM
Tuesday

At least for a trump administraction (sic). Clown Hall of Flame founding father; Dead Bear in Central Park joker; Worm in Brainer? Worst case is that he goes full nuts and the world gets wiped out.

Sheesh! Making a big deal of nothing.

hlthe2b

(104,971 posts)
3. Let's see, zoonotic disease potential : botulism, Brucellosis, Mycobacterium spp, Toxoplasmosis...
Tue Sep 17, 2024, 04:05 PM
Tuesday

and probably a dozen or so others. But, of course, he doesn't believe in infectious disease experts, vaccinologists, or any others with medical/scientific expertise. But he certainly could have infected his whole family with their plastic bag-covered faces inhaling body fluids...

GO AFTER HIM, NOAA!

Grins

(7,689 posts)
4. I know a fisherman who did that!
Tue Sep 17, 2024, 05:03 PM
Tuesday

Hauled up a huge whale bone. Tried to sell it on the web and got caught by the state and feds because it’s illegal to trade in whalebone.

A 5-figure fine and 6-months in county slammer was the result.

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