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Oh, taking a dead beat roadkill prize wasn't even the best bit of this extremely juicy story.
When he encountered the dead bear cub, he and his rich hipsters friends were on their way to go "falconing".
Yes... falconing.
Bonus points. When the story broke of a dead bear being discovered in Central Park ten years ago, his niece who was a journalist for the NY Times wrote the piece - not knowing that her own uncle was responsible for a dead bear being in NYC Central Park!
Can the story get any better
He's been into falconry since he was a young boy to be fair. Everyone should listen to Behind the Bastards new podcast about him. First couple episodes I was like yeah, he's fucked up from his family, sympathetic, loves hallucinogenic and other drugs, I kinda like this guy.
Third episode- ehhh I dunno...
Final episode- holy shit he's an actual baby murdering psychopath
That he's been rich and out of touch since he was young isn't in any way a counter to him being rich and out of touch now.
And whatever else he does, he's a lying anti-vaxxer with enough influence that that's not just a personal oddity and instead something that gets other people sick and/or killed.
Yeah he's terrible. I'm not defending him. Seriously check out that podcast. Before I listened I was like he's a moron vaccine denying rich old man. Now I actually hate the guy.
I mean he seems to be deeply broken...
However, threatening a police officer with a falcon is pretty cool.
Fuck yeah. I believe the quote was "I have a hawk that's trained to kill cops" then approaching the officer and whipping out the bird from beneath his cloak.
To be fair?
Would your family have been able to afford to be into falconry as a young boy? Mine sure wouldn't and we weren't exactly poor.
This is the epitome of being rich and out of touch.
I wouldn't want all the riches in the world if the trade off was to be born in that fucked up family.
Seriously. People treat them like royalty when most of them are just typical old money assholes.
Not sure if I've listened to Episode 4 yet, but Robert Evans talked about how this guy used to go hang out in a pit full of rotting cow and sheep carcasses and would keep rotting roadkill in his friend's refrigerators to feed his falcon. He definitely has some weird obsession with rotting corpses.
Oooo. Something to look forward to. I'm still on the second episode.