Kick Kennedy described the event as "normal" in an interview with Town & Country all the way back in December 2012 – years before her father ran for office.
Everyone trying to say this is normal didn't read the article.
Kick recounted of the event, “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.”
She concluded, “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.”
My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent, I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard, really.
It was a dead whale (and presumably rather small for a whale, although the article doesn't specify). He wanted the skull for his anatomical collection. I think this is actually pretty cool, at least because there are biologists (as opposed to politicians) who would do this sort of thing and they're cool people.
He's not a biologist, he's a lawyer. And if cutting up a whale with a chainsaw is normal day-to-day stuff in his family... that's pretty fucking weird.