Looking back, the warning from Mr Samaranch may have acted as a necessary wake-up call.
For Max, who's been hanging onto his well-tended fantasy for years ("this is just part time," he repeatedly insists of his hack job), his passenger represents an imminent threat, but also a necessary wake-up call.
The unprovoked beating up by policemen of Demas Fekadeh, an Ethiopian Israeli soldier in uniform, could well serve as a much necessary wake-up call for Israeli society to change, quickly and radically, its treatment of the 130,000 Israeli citizens and their descendants who immigrated from Ethiopia.
Would Elizabeth Warren coming out publicly at this late date to endorse Hillary and call for party unity provide the necessary wake-up?
Elsworth was banned for seven days when he failed to persuade a disciplinary panel that four of his 11 whip strokes had been necessary to wake up Loch Ba in the early stages of a race at Sandown in December, failing which he felt the horse would have continued to jump sloppily and may have fallen.
You'd think the mugging that went down in Wisconsin would be the sharp poke in the side necessary to wake Liberals up.
Both steps have been necessary in the wake of Diamond's disclosure of accounting problems, severe enough to require revising two years' worth of financial statements.
And Germany has had minimum input in developing a new security strategy for the Union, all the more necessary in the wake of the Arab Spring, the inexorable rise of China, and, much closer to home, Russia.
The possibility of a ground offensive in Yemen has grown significantly as Egypt declared its readiness to send troops into the embattled country "if necessary" in the wake of air strikes launched by a Saudi-led coalition.
The hearing is the first of five planned in the House to allow lawmakers to explore a constitutional amendment that President Bush and other advocates say is necessary in the wake of a Massachusetts court ruling in favor of gay marriage and decisions by local officials to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
