Three Pulled From Sinking Car In Brooklyn

NY1 News ^ | October 11, 2009

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Some good samaritans are being credited with helping to save a woman and her two teenage daughters Saturday after their car plunged into Sheepshead Bay.

It happened around 7 p.m. as witnesses say the woman was trying to maneuver into a parking spot along Emmons Avenue.

The car instead careened over the sidewalk, through a railing and dove into Sheepshead Bay.

"One gentleman jumped in. Another gentleman jumped on the roof of the car. They helped the people out and dragged them up to the dock," said one witness.

No one was seriously hurt, but the three people in the car and one of the people who jumped in to rescue them were taken to a hospital to be checked out.

[video at link]

[ETL]

Can't help but be reminded of this fatal event 40 years ago...

Chappaquiddick:

"On Friday night July 18, 1969 around midnight a married man, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, was driving his oldsmobile on the island of Chappaquiddick with a single woman named Mary Jo Kopechne aboard when he, allegedly drunk, drove the car off a bridge and into a pond. He was leaving a party attended only by five married men and six unmarried women. Kennedy escaped the car and swam to shore. Mary Jo Kopechne was not quite so lucky. She died in the car, in the water.

Kennedy failed to even contact the police for a full nine hours, after he was told the car and body had been found.

The Kennedy family chartered a plane to immediately fly the victim's body to her hometown, Wilkes-Barre. No autopsy was conducted.

http://www.politicaldogs.org/2005/09/moral-compass.htm
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"A half-mile down Dyke Road, Kennedy drove off the side of the Dyke Bridge, and the car overturned into Poucha Pond. Kennedy got out of the overturned car, but Kopechne failed to exit the car and died. Kopechne's body was recovered later that morning; the diver reporting that Kopechne had positioned herself near the back seat wheel well where an air pocket had formed, and had apparently suffocated rather than drowned. Her parents ruled out an autopsy, so the cause of death was never officially determined.

Senator Kennedy later pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident after causing injury, for which he received a two-month suspended sentence and one year probation."

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=4569
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Ted "Water Dog" Kennedy...

Kennedy 'joked about Chappaquiddick'
Biographer reveals deadly incident was a 'favorite topic of humor'

August 28, 2009

"Edward Klein, speaking to WAMU guest host Katty Kay, said one of Kennedy's 'favorite topics of humor was, indeed, Chappaquiddick.'

"He would ask people, 'Have you heard any new jokes about Chappaquiddick?' said Klein, a former Newsweek foreign editor and former editor in chief of the New York Times Magazine."

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=108256
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YouTube video: Kennedy liked to joke about Chappaquiddick

"This isn't an accusation from Ted Kennedy's political opponents, but a nostalgic remembrance by one of his friends. Ed Klein, former Newsweek editor, tells the Diane Rehm Show:

"I don't know if you know this or not, but one of his favorite topics of humor was indeed Chappaquiddick itself. And he would ask people, have you heard any new jokes about Chappaquiddick? That is just the most amazing thing. It's not that he didn't feel remorse about the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, but that he still always saw the other side of everything and the ridiculous side of things, too."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaiTipTtbak

[HiTech RedNeck]

I hate it when that happens.

[HiTech RedNeck]

(I mean I hate it when a car attempting to park careens over a sidewalk and through a railing into the drink...)

[MaxMax]

Could be one of those two foot drivers, gas and brake at the same time.
You can spot them because their brake light flickers all the time because
the driver brakes instead of releasing the gas.

[HiTech RedNeck]

You’d think they’d learn, after “careening” into lots of other stuff (though I betcha she learned from this one)

[Bellflower]

And they talked about it like this made him a special person!!???

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

“Careening”, or course, means moving in a zig-zag course like a pinball, which she didn’t. The verb meaning to move at top speed in headlong manner is “career”, although that rarely describes most people’s “career [noun, attributive]-trajectory”. Words are funny.

[youturn]

My brother threatened to tie my left foot to the door if I tried to use it on the brake when he was teaching me to drive years ago.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Had there been a gentleman present then, the lady could have been saved as those were now.

[ETL]

And they talked about it like this made him a special person!!???

Disgusting, isn't it.

"I don't know if you know this or not, but one of his favorite topics of humor was indeed Chappaquiddick itself. And he would ask people, have you heard any new jokes about Chappaquiddick? That is just the most amazing thing. It's not that he didn't feel remorse about the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, but that he still always saw the other side of everything and the ridiculous side of things, too."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaiTipTtbak