Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once lived with an emu that regularly attacked his wife (now he only has ravens as pets, which he feeds with leftover meat and calls out “Caw! Caw!” to)

No one can predict the future, but you probably won’t go broke if you bet that there will never be a stranger story about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. than the one where his brain was partially eaten by a worm that crawled in and died. That’s not to say there won’t be more weird stories, but they probably won’t top the brain-eating worm one. But they’ll definitely get up there.

A typical example: On Wednesday, The New York Times reported that the presidential candidate (1) had previously lived with an emu and that (2) the emu had been so aggressive toward his wife that she had to carry a shovel for protection.

Yes, in an interview with the newspaper, Kennedy revealed that Cheryl Hines is “fine” with his wild ravens (more on that later) in contrast to what she thought of Toby the emu, who “moved to Malibu with Mr. Kennedy in 2014 and took up residence in the backyard.” Why did Hines dislike Toby? Probably because he “started violently attacking her,” and not just once or twice, but so frequently that she “started carrying a shovel for self-defense whenever she went outside.” When she spoke to reporters about the ordeal Rebecca Davis O’Brien, The actress said she would ask herself every morning, “Is today going to be the day I wake up and kill an emu in my backyard?” Luckily for Hines, Toby is no longer there (he was killed by a mountain lion).

At this point you are certainly not I wondered if Toby was the only emu that had ever lived in Kennedy’s house (because the idea of ​​having lived with more than one emu would be crazy). But there was indeed another Emu, whose name is not known, but whose existence we know because the Just notes in passing that “one of Mr. Kennedy’s dogs, Ronan, now 13 years old and suffering from severe arthritis, had killed several pets in his prime, including another emu and a tortoise.”

Be that as it may, Hines now lives in relative safety, but she also lives with a man who, as he Just, has “a few ravens as pets”.

The ravens are relatively harmless, Ms. Hines says, even “cute.” But when Kennedy is on the campaign trail, they can be a little needy. Lately, Ms. Hines has looked up and seen them peering down at her impatiently from the skylight in her bathroom. “Like, ‘When is he coming back?'”

As she was telling this, Mr. Kennedy grabbed the bag of leftover meat – “cheap steak,” he said – from the refrigerator and went into the back yard. He raised his head and shouted, “Caw! Caw!”

The Ravens made their debut on Kennedy’s X-Account last week: