| Finn's cousin was on National TV [message #200018] |
Tue, 26 February 2013 19:53  |
Ken Burton
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Sunday Finn's cousin was on national TV Sunday. He was filmed romping around on the ice on Lake Michigan in the Chicago area. He fell through it several times. Each time he climbed back out and went on his way. Finally someone in a small kayak rowed out and convinced him to come back to shore. Finn's cousin was incorrectly identified as a Golden Retriever on the news report.
Today in a follow up Chicago news broadcast, Finn's Cousin's owners told the news people that he was really a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever and had been missing for a week.
The Chicago (home of Obama) news reported that Finn's cousin was missing for a week from Nova Scotia and he was found duck hunting on Lake Michigan in Chicago.
You should always believe what you hear in the Chicago news.
Ken Burton - N9KB
76 Palm Beach
Hebron, Indiana
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| Re: Finn's cousin was on National TV [message #200041 is a reply to message #200034] |
Tue, 26 February 2013 21:18  |
Ken Burton
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Finn is a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever. Around here he hunts squirrels and keeps the ducks and geese off of our pond. He is great with squirrels. I do not know about hunting ducks. A few days ago we were out in the car for hours so I stopped by a city park and let him out for a brief run. He never walks. He spent the entire time looking at up in the park trees while running and barking up every tree. He would not go out in the open field where there was no trees. Maybe he really is a Nova Scotia Squirrel Tolling Retriever.
Ken Burton - N9KB
76 Palm Beach
Hebron, Indiana
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| Re: Finn's cousin was on National TV [message #200065 is a reply to message #200042] |
Wed, 27 February 2013 01:52 |
Ken Burton
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Will do. I'll see if he will watch it. He was watching the dog show a week ago or so. Maybe he will watch this.
It really amazes me how badly the news can screw up something. The few news stories I have had personal knowledge about were all totally screwed up.
A few years ago a Doctor friend of mine was killed when the rotor let loose on his helicopter. When the news reporters showed up all over the airport, no one would talk to them. We all knew that the report they would file would not be anything approaching the truth.
The police are right behind them in accuracy. The fellow in the hanger across from me was inbound in a King Air on an instrument flight plan. He reported an alternator failure to ATC. (The twin turboprop airplane has two of them.) The cops picked up the report and decided an airplane was going to crash. We had police from the city, the county, the state, the DNR, and the University swarming all over the airport. They were driving on the runways and taxiways trying to control everything for impending crash. Mean time Bruce (the pilot) had already landed and put his airplane away in his hangar and went home. The cops spent 2.5 hours stirring things up at the airport before they gave up and went home.
I once was stopped by a cop and asked what all of the antennas on my car were for. My first thought was "How do you explain something technical like APRS and Amateur Radio to someone who chases cars for a living?" I did not even try.
Ken Burton - N9KB
76 Palm Beach
Hebron, Indiana
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| Re: [GMCnet] Finn's cousin was on National TV [message #200069 is a reply to message #200067] |
Wed, 27 February 2013 05:29 |
Ken Burton
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Actually I think I'm a large.
| Robert Mueller wrote on Wed, 27 February 2013 03:40 |
Ken,
You shouda told him you were a medium and while you could contact those that had passed after living good lives easily, the antennas were necessary to contact those that hadn't as it took more power to reach them underground!
Regards,
Rob
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From: Ken Burton
I once was stopped by a cop and asked what all of the antennas on my car were for. My first thought was "How do you explain
something technical like APRS and Amateur Radio to someone who chases cars for a living?" I did not even try.
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Ken
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Ken Burton - N9KB
76 Palm Beach
Hebron, Indiana
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| Re: [GMCnet] Finn's cousin was on National TV [message #200087 is a reply to message #200018] |
Wed, 27 February 2013 08:36 |
jhbridges
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I saw the piece - and the dog was obviously a Toller, so I figured the rest of it was as suspect for accuracy as the breed... excepting the video. Glad he got home though. Realize, everything is a 'Golden' to these people. Any dog that bites someone is instantly a 'Pit Bull' also. Just l;ike whjebn someone hits something with a $5 million private jet, it's a 'small plane'.
--johnny
'76 23' transmode norris
'76 palm beach
3Kuvasz - who really aren't 'Pyrenees'
From: Ken Burton <n9cv@comcast.net>
To: gmclist@temp.gmcnet.org
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 8:53 PM
Subject: [GMCnet] Finn's cousin was on National TV
Sunday Finn's cousin was on national TV Sunday. He was filmed romping around on the ice on Lake Michigan in the Chicago area. He fell through it several times. Each time he climbed back out and went on his way. Finally someone in a small kayak rowed out and convinced him to come back to shore. Finn's cousin was incorrectly identified as a Golden Retriever on the news report.
Today in a follow up Chicago news broadcast, Finn's Cousin's owners told the news people that he was really a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever and had been missing for a week.
The Chicago (home of Obama) news reported that Finn's cousin was missing for a week from Nova Scotia and he was found duck hunting on Lake Michigan in Chicago.
You should always believe what you hear in the Chicago news.
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Ken Burton - N9KB
76 Palm Beach
Hebron, Indiana
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I forgive them all, save those who hurt the dogs. They must answer to me in hell
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| Re: Finn's cousin was on National TV [message #200144 is a reply to message #200018] |
Wed, 27 February 2013 20:16 |
JohnL455
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He had to spend the night in the pound and then have 2 items removed before they would return to owner. The law. He has a higher bark now.
John Lebetski
Woodstock, IL
77 Eleganza II
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| Re: Finn's cousin was on National TV [message #200145 is a reply to message #200144] |
Wed, 27 February 2013 21:03 |
mojoe
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Would that be a T-Toller? 
Joe Kemenczky..
1975 Eleganza ll " Odie " 75,000 miles..
"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not." - Mark Twain.
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