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Embarassing Times Lurk Just Around the Corner

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188 – October, 2018

Life itself presents ample opportunities for humiliation or embarrassment. Certainly I’ve experienced several of these highly uncomfortable times through the years just in the course of doing my work as an investigative reporter. Some of these red-faced moments include having once been cited for contempt of court by a highly irritated federal district judge when my reporting partner and I refused to reveal the sources for a story we’d done. Another embarrassing occasion happened while reporting on an anti-war protest when the then mayor of Minneapolis decided it would be fun to drop CS gas canisters and smoke grenades on the protesters and if the gas cloud also hit the press covering the event, that was just so much whipped cream atop his personal sundae. The after-effects of being enveloped in the tear gas and smoke cloud were not only highly uncomfortable but difficult to explain without embarrassment to normal–meaning non-professional activist–people.

Still another time, an FBI agent, who actually was a good friend, handcuffed and frog marched me away from a different protest that was getting uglier by the minute in full view of several hundred subscribers to the magazine I was working for at the time after I was a tad uncooperative when he strongly suggested I leave the site with him. He called it ‘protective custody’. What I called it, and him, is not suitable for reprinting in a family publication. Let’s just say it was some pretty salty language. While these humiliating or highly embarrassing times may seem a bit extreme, they’re not much more extreme than some I and people I know have experienced doing dog sports, because dogs are world class when it comes to finding ways to embarrass their owners.

You would think that my most embarrassing experiences in company with the dog would have occurred in the field as the opportunities abound in an uncontrolled situation such as that of the wilderness. Indeed, it is true that there have been plenty of times when I have been seriously humbled by my dogs. One occurred when I sent my master hunter on a retrieve where he hadn’t seen the bird fall because he was retrieving another duck on the other side of the dike where we were hunting. When he delivered the first duck, I lined him up for the blind retrieve on a canvas back that I had clearly marked down as dead in some reeds across the pond. But, when I sent him, he not only failed to hold the line on which he was sent but kept drifting right no matter how many times I stopped him and tried to push him back left.

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188 – October, 2018

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