Sorry for their family’s loss but a soccer ball on open, choppy water should be an obvious write-off especially when taking a kid and a canoe (!?) out on it.
Seeing the name again reminded me of KKT’s run for governor. We were visiting MD for a few days and picking up the Baltimore Sun in the morning. Even then I thought I was inured to media bias but their cymbal-clanging, cartwheeling displays of ‘Vote for Kathleen’ in every so-called news article were appalling. It was less a newspaper and more a 100-page campaign flyer.
Even more insane was that we were in town at the time of the Beltway Sniper (Muslims of course) who was still at large. As we refueled our vehicle I wondered aloud ‘Why are we standing out in the open like this?’
FTA ‘“The cove is protected, with much calmer wind and water than in the greater Chesapeake,” he wrote in a Facebook post. “They got into a canoe, intending simply to retrieve the ball, and somehow got pushed by wind or tide into the open bay.”
According to the Coast Guard, there were two- to three-foot waves and 29-mile-per-hour winds in the bay when the mother and son disappeared off Shady Side, about a 30-minute drive south of Annapolis.
I remember that sniper too...working and living in Kensington, MD at the time. Also when the 9/11 terrorists bombed the Pentagon; we could see the smoke from our office windows.
Terrible experiences!
Yet she still lost to a Republican (Bob Ehrlich) in one of the most liberal infested states in the country.
I gather the sporting good stores are probably closed and it wouldn’t be a priority delivery for Amazon so procuring another in a timely fashion might have been difficult and look mom it’s right there, we can grab it easy!
What an absurdly random way to die.
“Sorry for their family’s loss but a soccer ball on open, choppy water”...
If the ball is moving AWAY from shore THAT ought to tell you something right there.
I have KKT to thank for my often used username.
"I pledge to you today that I will dedicate myself to make sure that every Marylander reaches her or his indispensable destiny," Townsend said, ad-libbing from handwritten notes. "I will do this . . . by making sure our citizens have the tools they need to make their dreams come true." May 6, 2002