This is commentary (by Boris Johnson, editor of the London Spectator on an old story, but it’s too good not to repeat:

“One of the girls, Alexandra, told of the time when the Kerry hamster fell, in its cage, off a New England dock, and the weeping Kerry children watched it bubble to the depths. It was a reverse Chappaquidick, with the hamster as Mary Jo Kopechne and Kerry as Teddy Kennedy, hurling himself after the trapped critter.”