On CNN today, I heard Rep. Patrick Kennedy, son of Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy, crashed his car into a barricade on Capitol Hill last Thursday. He wasn't drinking or anything, he just out of the blue, smashed into a barricade. Ted Kennedy got in a wreck once himself. Chappaquiddick, Massachusetts...some backwoodsy pond he just had to drive his car into. The Kennedy's love water! Mary Jo Kopechne insisted Ted not go driving into ponds, but how could boozed up Teddy resist. Then, Teddy said Kopechne passed out or was dead after the wreck, when a certain Police diver John Farrar had this to report:

'It was not the position assumed by a person knocked unconscious by the impact of a crash (Mary's position in the car as she struggled for air in passenger's seat of the car...under water), Farrar said. "If she had been dead or unconscious, she would have been prone, sinking to the bottom or floating on top. She definitely was holding herself in a position to avail herself of the last remaining air that had to be trapped in the car."'

Those Kennedy's sure like wrecks! Teddy, John Jr., and now Pat. They also have a knack of getting involved with shootings...