Environmental group calls for investigation of RFK Jr. chainsawing whale head

The big picture: Kennedy cut off a whale's head with a chainsaw in or around 1994 after finding out that it washed up on Squaw Island in Hyannis Port, Mass., his daughter Kick Kennedy told Town & Country Magazine in 2012.

He bungee-corded it to the roof of the family's minivan and drove it to Mount Kisco, N.Y., she said.
"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 said in the interview.
"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."

The latest: Hartl said it is illegal to posses "any part of an animal" protected by the Marine Mammal Protection and Endangered Species acts.

Transporting the skull across state lines would amount to a felony violation of the 1900 Lacey Act, "which prohibits the transportation of any wildlife, dead or alive, that was reduced to possession in violation of any state, federal or international regulation or law," Hartl said.

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