Not the sharpest knives in the drawer. So used to people telling them how great they are they actually believe it and make poor decisions based on overconfidence. Sad even if they are Democrats.
Trying to retrieve a soccer ball?
Sounds like bullshit
Evidently the only Kennedy’s that could swim were Teddy and JFK.
Paddling out on these cold waters isn’t wise, and if it was as windy in Maryland as it was in SE Pennsylvania yesterday, it was even more unwise. I’m sorry for the family’s loss, but I wouldn’t attribute it to a curse - just a very bad decision.
You took your 8 year old son with you in a canoe on the bay in rough water? For a soccer ball?
Must have been drinking to make such a poor decision and take your son with you.
Very sad to hear this. Prayers for the family and the souls of the deceased. But I have to agree with some of the other comments. We are living in a time of extraordinary challenge. Thousands are dying daily all over the world. What is the claim to fame of these two individuals justifying all of this attention?
So tragic. So very sorry.
The Kennedy curse continues on... Accidents and assassinations, and when it comes to them killing others through their misfortunes that’s also a pretty long list.
I’ll never forget Teddy’s refrain.. “How’s the water down there Mary Jo?”
Pity.
Is there some sort of hex on the Kennedy family?
Terrible, I know, but how many damn soccer balls could they have bought to replace the one that floated away? Awful priorities.
And I thought Maryland was under lockdown orders. Are Kennedys exempt from the laws meant for everyone else?
Yes, I know I should be horrified but at what point when somebody sticks their hand in an electric socket and gets shocked should you say “you really should know better”? Darwin celebrates another victim.
How horrible...RIP.
Terrible tragedy. May they Rest In Peace.
Geez, that’s random. Tragic, of course, but just so terribly random. Chasing after a ball in a canoe.
I suspect that after the ball floated away, the little Kennedy prince was inconsolable, and his mom felt compelled to risk her life over a trivial ball to stop her narcissistic little angel from crying. Still a sad end.
“[They] popped into a canoe to chase it down”
I wonder whose idea that was?
Things like this, lives lost chasing after a rubber ball or something similar, happened a century or two ago and earlier, but at least the families of those who died had the consolation that people it wasn’t considered acceptable to ridicule the deceased for dying in foolish ways.
When my son went to one of those Boy Scout camps a couple of decade ago (the trips where they don’t call home and go on dangerous hikes) I gave him ONE rule:
“You are not in trouble if you lose your glasses, etc. Do not retrieve any lost items when you are hiking. There is not one thing you are bringing that is worth your life. It can all be replaced.”
Best advice I ever gave, there were two fatal accidents at that park, that week.
RIP.