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Bayh's Drive-By Gym Bag Drop-Off Incident
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ABC News' Matt Jaffe reports: Doing "Dad duty" apparently isn't as easy as it looks.
While speculation runs rampant that Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh is one of the top contenders to become Democrat Barack Obama's running mate, the Indiana Democrat is spending his Senate recess taking care of his two twin boys at their Washington, DC home.
But this afternoon, Bayh's week of fatherhood fun hit a roadblock ... or rather, created one.
A large black gym bag got stuck on the door of a car driven by a friend of Bayh's as it pulled out of his garage. The driver then drove about a hundred yards up the street, with the bag dragging along behind the car.
When the car reached the top of the tree-lined residential road, Bayh, sitting on the passenger side, opened his door and the bag fall out into the street. And then, as if nothing had happened, the car drove away, leaving the tag-along bag stranded right in the path of oncoming traffic.
Members of the media staked out at the residence stood around confused about the bizarre scene, before one especially conscientious reporter walked up the hill to pick up the bag. Yours truly took the bag, weighed down with "Spartans" lacrosse gear, back to Bayh's house, dropping it off on the front porch.
The senator, via his spokesman, later expressed his personal gratitude to the good samaritan reporter.
It turns out that Bayh, who is apparently on "Dad duty" at the moment, did not know that the lacrosse bag was stuck on the car, as he drove off to pick up his twin sons, Beau and Nick, at their all-day sports camp. The bag, which belongs to Beau, will fortunately not be needed today, since the boys are at a tennis camp rather than a lacrosse one.
So consider it a crisis averted -- though the incident didn't go unnoticed by Bayh's neighbors.
"I thought it was very odd and very strange and out of character that the senator would just toss a bag out into the middle of the street," said Bayh neighbor Ashley Allen.
"He's serious about those boys and their lacrosse," she added. "I'm sure he'll be thrilled to have the bag back."
Bayh, a sports aficionado just like his sons, is planning on hitting some tennis balls with them before returning home later today, where he will find the lost bag safe and sound.
Maybe a little tennis might help Bayh work off some of the veepstakes stress -- the senator, ABC News has learned, has not heard from Obama all week.
UPDATE: Just back from picking up his boys at tennis camp, Bayh returned home moments ago, waving to cameras as he pulled into his garage.
Then one minute later Bayh, decked out in his tennis whites, opened his front door to pick up the stray gym bag left on his porch. "Thanks, whoever got this. Appreciate it."
You're welcome, senator. Glad to help.
For more veepstakes coverage, click on the ABC News Politics page.
August 20, 2008 in Kucinich, Dennis, Romney, Mitt, Tancredo, Tom | Permalink | User Comments (42)
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Oh, wait, now I get it. Lacrosse sounds French. Can't be very American, lol. John McCain would never play Lacrosse!
Posted by: Paul | Aug 20, 2008 3:50:14 PM
Lacrosse is the national sport of Canada, of course it's unAmerican!
Posted by: Jenn | Aug 20, 2008 3:54:11 PM
Obama throws his own grandmother under the bus. Bayh heartlessly drags his SON's bag then dumps it in the street! My God these people will stop at nothing! Do we really want them as role models? What's next,sexually abusing gullible interns?-wait, didn't Bill Clinton already do that?
Posted by: Joe M. Omma | Aug 20, 2008 4:23:53 PM
Next Mystery??? Bayh's third twin boy!!!
Guess Matt was winded from picking up the bag and bringing it home!?!
Obama 08
Posted by: jackt51 | Aug 20, 2008 4:26:34 PM
Glad to see that while the world is going to hell in a handbasket, you guys are keeping an eye on this VP hopeful's ballbag.
Posted by: whitey | Aug 20, 2008 4:33:25 PM
How is this story relevant to, well, anything?
I'm not a Democrat and won't be voting Democrat, but even I have to ask what is the point of this story?
Posted by: None of the Above 08 | Aug 20, 2008 4:33:30 PM
his son is named Beau Bayh? For real? That must be a joke.
bye bye beau bayh bye bayhbyebyebeaubyebayh.
Posted by: noooo.... can't be... | Aug 20, 2008 4:44:31 PM
Did someone with the last name "Bayh" really name their son "Beau". Buh-bye?
Posted by: Ed | Aug 20, 2008 4:45:35 PM
This is stupid.... why the heck this is headline news? Nothing else happening in the world..... ?!?!?!
Posted by: Mbrane | Aug 20, 2008 4:47:13 PM
was there a jock strap in it?
Posted by: Burt | Aug 20, 2008 4:48:31 PM
Good God, is this news? What did he have for breakfast? The media is so pathetic.
Posted by: a reader in georgia | Aug 20, 2008 4:49:11 PM
bun-huggers or bocers?
Posted by: Burt | Aug 20, 2008 4:51:14 PM
The USS Obama Titanic keeps lumbering along. Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, George Soros and the other unrepetent terrorists, America-haters, racists and felons that Obama has partnered with the last 20 years are enjoying drinks on the deck, laughing and speculating about what will be on the menu for their first dinner in the White House.
But there is an iceberg ahead.
After November, when people talk about colossal failures, they will mention the movies “Ishtar” and “Heaven’s Gate” – and the Obama campaign.
Posted by: Jolly Roger | Aug 20, 2008 4:55:47 PM
I wasn't trying to be funny, I was just interested.
Posted by: Burt | Aug 20, 2008 4:56:17 PM
If it was John McCain instead of the wooden indian, the Headline would scream SENILE McCain drags bag! Is John McCain fit for the Presidency?
Next ABC will report something silly like the uber rich Obama has at least one destitute half brother or some other such malarkey.
Posted by: Otto Focus | Aug 20, 2008 4:58:58 PM
Maybe SoetorObama will pick Barack Sr.'s prodigal son -- his long lost brothter?
In the Obamessiah's embarrassing performance the Saddleback Forum the man-child (attempting to equate Christianity with socialism) used a line from the New Testament to answer the moderator's question about what had been America's greatest moral failure. "We still don't abide by that basic precept of Matthew that whatever you do for the least of my brothers, you do for me." Maybe he'll take some of his millions amassed from community agitation and send it to this guy:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/2590614/Barack-Obamas-lost-brother-found-in-Kenya.html
Posted by: Rev. Michael Pflamethrower | Aug 20, 2008 5:16:50 PM
I think this is one of the most
useless reporting reports. Is
there nothing better? Maybe
there are to many reporters if
they cannot find something more
important to report on?
Posted by: curly | Aug 20, 2008 5:17:30 PM
blood is blood....obama should help out his brother
Posted by: chris | Aug 20, 2008 5:21:02 PM
Matt Jaffe - bagholder to the rich and powerful. Awesome!
Posted by: slick | Aug 21, 2008 2:35:22 AM
So now ABC is training its staff to do travel office advance work! Eek-ads! Now thats getting into the story!
Posted by: Advanceguy | Aug 21, 2008 10:41:42 AM
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