Posted on 10/16/2005 9:23:13 PM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
HYANNIS, Mass. Senator Edward Kennedy attempted to rescue six men who had become trapped by high tide on a jetty off Hyannisport yesterday. The Cape Cod Times reports that Kennedy eventually left the rescue to Hyannis firefighters.
The senator was walking his two dogs on the shore at 11:15 a-m when he spotted the men cut off from shore by the rising waters.
They had been fishing on a jetty that begins at the tip of the Kennedy compound. Tides rose over the patchy rocks, make it difficult to walk back to shore.
Kennedy and a friend tried to rescue the men in a 13-foot boat but rough waters forced them back.
A crew from the Hyannis Fire Department picked them up. The men, in their 20s, were not identified. They were brought to Cape Cod Hospital with mild hypothermia.
ROTF.......he coulda used a few Water Dogs back when he was hammered, and trying to nail Mary Jo Kopeckne.
Ted Kennedy could be used as a floatation device.
Hardly. His intentions were most likely only to martyr himself. Which tecnically would've been good for all of us.
Good for him. I applaud Senator Kennedy. Glad the two men were alright.
Ted Kennedy can walk?
It was early in the day (11:15am). He hadn't started, Yet...wait another 2 hours.
The senator was ordered not to procede further by the Hyannis Fire Department. He was not far from the jetty (video news footage), but the waters were still treacherous. With that kind of chop, getting the men onto the boat would have been extremely risky. The fire department most likely had equipment more appropriate for that kind of rescue.
Did he take the Oldsmobile?
The boat was a Boston Whaler. No shit ,the Boston whale in a Boston Whaler.Boston Whalers are purported to be unsinkable. The ads for this boat used to show them cut in half and still afloat.They are great boats, still he could have only gotten 1 or 2 guys off at a time.A boat that small would probably have capsized.
You're on the ping list, sitg.
Those poor fishermen. Imagine being in the water and seeing something that looks like a great white whale coming towards you and saying it's going to save you...
Good for Ted. He saw he had to try, and he did; the fact that he was not successful is irrelevant.
It does seem out of character for him, but you never know, there is almost always some good in most people.
Let's give him the benefit of the doubt- I do not think that when he saw what was happening he thought, Ooh, a photo-op.
Trying to redeem himself?
I was trying to picture the looks on these poor guys' faces when they realized it was Chappaquiddick Teddy coming towards them saying, "Ahhhhhh, are yah having some trouble in tha watah? Don't worry 'bout a thing. Ah will save yah."
LOL!! Fat Teddy couldn't do a thing when the Hyannis Fire Department picked the fishermen up. Too funny.
I now fully expect Bill Clinton to start giving pointers on marital fidelity.
Ted Kennedy discovered a group of men stranded on a jetty today but luckily the men were able to fend him off until help arrived.
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