Thursday, May 04, 2006

It Must Be In the Genes

At least nobody was killed this time.
Police labor union officials asked acting Chief Christopher McGaffin this afternoon to allow a Capitol Police officer to complete his investigation into an early-morning car crash involving Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.), son of Sen. Ted Kennedy. ROLL CALL reports: According to a letter sent by Officer Greg Baird, acting chairman of the USCP FOP, the wreck took place at approximately 2:45 a.m. Thursday when Kennedy's car, operating with its running lights turned off, narrowly missed colliding with a Capitol Police cruiser and smashed into a security barricade at First and C streets Southeast. “The driver exited the vehicle and he was observed to be staggering,” Baird’s letter states. Officers approached the driver, who “declared to them he was a Congressman and was late to a vote. The House had adjourned nearly three hours before this incident. It was Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy from Rhode Island.”

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

It would be amusing if it weren't for the fact that these jerks have a deadly history. I would be willing, as a taxpayer, to pay for them to get lickered up and race around in a closed arena in high performance sports cars until they were both road pizza.

Lone Ranger said...

As they say: I'd rather go hunting with Dick Cheney than accept a ride from a Kennedy.