A political candidate in the New York City suburbs went for a night swim in the Atlantic Ocean this past spring and never returned.
Petros Krommidas’s phone, keys and clothes were found on the sands at Long Beach on Long Island. The 29-year-old former Ivy League rower, who was training for a triathlon, had parked his car just off the picturesque wooden boardwalk.
As the months passed, local Democrats attempted to field a replacement to run for the seat in the Nassau County legislature.
But two Republican voters took them to court and won: a state judge recently ordered Krommidas’s name to remain on the November ballot, ruling that he’s still considered missing and not officially deceased.
Well, not the missing presumed drowned part, that’s not fun. But that he still might win the election.
If he’s a Democrat he’ll be the best Democrat politician New York’s ever had…
Sounds like a ‘West Wing’ episode.
He’ll have a lot in common with many of the voters.
proper representation then….. 😉
Maybe he’s done a John Stonehouse or Reggie Perrin…..
Yes well worth checking in Australia or Panama
That was my reaction too. Is a New Yorker really going to leave his keys and phone lying around on a beach like that, even on a quiet night?
Meanwhile, in the UK, the Tories and Labour are the living dead…
A triathlete should know better than to go open water swimming alone. It’s just a really massive no no, especially in the sea.
I thought politicians usually do this after they’re elected…
Fret for your figure and fret for your latte and fret for your lawsuit and fret for your hairpiece and fret for your Prozac and fret for your pilot and
Are his paychecks still being cashed?
The Aussies lost their prime minister ( Harold Holt) like this in 1967.
You beat me to it. Yes we did. He liked to swim at a private beach that was off limits to the public. Also not a great place to go swimming because of tides, rips, and so on. Went out, never came back.
But we do have the Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Pool to remember him by.
You really shouldn’t go swimming wearing those closely-fitted concrete boots ….