Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
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something that has perplexed me for a long time is how does a sniffer dog have a day off? I mean if you're its handler and go off for a walk in the park you wouldn't want it grassing up the neighbours would you?
Prob should include this in the 'workplace story' thread, but has a certain place on this one. True story; once worked on a giant IT project for HMRC in the days before it was called HMRC. Customs officers got seconded to us for a month at a time to test the new system. This one Scottish guy, name of something like Brian, was known to all his colleagues as Douglas despite all our paperwork insisting his name was Brian. One day I asked him why everybody called him Douglas when his name was Brian. With a certain amount of muttering he said that he was a Customs dog handler who once went for a round of golf on his day off with his sniffer dog who was also his family pet. Dog promptly ran off, never to be seen again. Probably got stuck down a rabbit hole or something. And from that day on, none of his colleagues, the bastids, ever called him anything other than Dugless.