• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Oh FFS, has no one here ever seen a corpse?! He cut the head off a dead animal he found. Call it weird, fair enough. I wouldn’t pass up a free whale skull to hang at camp. “Found this on the beach and cleaned it myself!” The only charge possible is transporting across state lines, and while illegal, ain’t really a big deal.

    If I keep a feather off a dead songbird, same thing, prosecutable offense, but no DA is going after me without evidence I killed for it, and probably not then unless I was a serial bird murderer. This is exactly why we give prosecutors leeway in these sorts of things.

    Bullshit controversies like this tell me y’all don’t get outside your suburbs.

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      2 months ago

      How do you feel about the fact that he heard about the dead whale, put his kids in the car with him, drove to the island in a different state where the whale was, had his kids watch he sawed its head off, put it on the roof of his car, and then made his kids wear tarps over their bodies with breathing holes cut out so that they wouldn’t get the “whale juice” that was flowing into the car all over them?

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        Is this actually real? If so the brain worm thing is not even a joke anymore, they must have done some serious neurological damage because that’s messed up.

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          100% real.

          Kick’s taste for the extreme was fed by her dad’s eccentric environmentalism. Exhibit A: When she was six, word got out that a dead whale had washed up on Squaw Island in Hyannis Port. Bobby — who likes to study animal skulls and skeletons — ran down to the beach with a chainsaw, cut off the whale’s head, and then bungee-corded it to the roof of the family minivan for the five-hour haul back to Mount Kisco, New York. “Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet,” Kick recalls. “We all had plastic bags over our heads with mouth holes cut out, and people on the highway were giving us the finger, but that was just normal day-to-day stuff for us.”

          https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a924/kick-kennedy-interview/

          (Her nickname is Kick because she was named after a relative, Kathleen Kennedy, who was also nicknamed Kick.)