Robert F Kennedy Jr doesn’t seem to care about the Kennedy curse as he grabbed two snakes from the floor of his holiday resort.
His wife Cheryl can be heard shouting ‘Honey let them go, oh my god, Bobby please’ as theUS health secretary wrestles with two black racer snakes.
He dangles the pair of angry snakes in the air to the camera before one of them lands a bite on his hand on the rooftop of the Palm Beach mansion of Mehmet Oz.
A voice that sounds like ‘Dr Oz’, the celebrity medic now serving as administrator for Medicaid, questions whether the snakes were having sex.
He captioned the post on X: ‘Cheryl cheerleads the removal of a pair of Black Racers from Dr Oz’s patio.’
Southern black racers are the most common species of snake in Florida, but are harmless to humans.
Fans of the clip posted on X that RFK Jr should start a ‘Bear Grylls’ style nature show to showcase his bravery.
And it’s not the first time RFK Jr had an eccentric animal moment.
He confessed to hitting and killing a small bear with his van in upstate New York.
He originally intended to skin it and eat the meat, but after a day of falcon hunting, he and his friends dropped the carcass in Central Park to try and stage the scene to look like a tragic cycling accident.
Kennedy’s daughter, Kick Kennedy, also recounted watching her father saw the head off a dead beached whale on a Massachusetts beach and bungee-corded it to the roof of the family minivan. She said the ‘whale juice’ ran down the car windows as they drove.
What is the rumoured ‘Kennedy Curse’?
Not that RFK Jr cares but the ‘Kennedy curse’ has long been blamed for the unexplained and often premature deaths which occur in the Kennedy family.
Assassinations, multiple plane crashes, and a lobotomy have caused strife in the political dynasty.
It arguably first began when the eldest Kennedy brother, Joseph, died in 1944 while serving in the Navy. He died in a plane crash at the age of 29.
Kathleen Kennedy, another sibling, died in France on a plane in 1948, just four years after her eldest brother perished.
Perhaps the most well-known Kennedy death was John F. Kennedy.
When he was serving as President of the United States, he went on a motorcade through the city of Dallas, Texas, in 1963, when he was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald at the age of 46.
John’s younger brother, Robert F Kennedy, was killed in 1968 while running for President at the age of 42.
One tragedy not widely spoken about in the family was that of Rosemary Kennedy, who underwent an experimental lobotomy in 1941 to address her ‘intellectual disabilities’.
The outcome left her unable to speak or walk, meaning she was institutionalised until her death decades later.
The bad fortune didn’t stop after the first generation of Kennedys suffered.
The son of Robert F. Kennedy, David, died of a drug overdose at the age of 28 in 1984. Another one of their sons, Michael, died in a skiing accident in 1997.
John F. Kennedy’s son, JFK Jr, died in 1999 while flying a plane with his wife, Carolyn Bessette, and her sister, Lauren, onboard.
In 2012, Robert F Kennedy’s wife, whom he was separated from at the time, took her own life amid a custody battle.
In 2019, another Kennedy granddaughter, Saoirse Kennedy Hill, was found dead from an accidental overdose in Massachusetts.
Then, in 2020, Robert F Kennedy’s granddaughter, Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean and her son, Gideon, went missing while canoeing. Their bodies were retrieved days later.
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