Posted on 07/07/2007 1:37:47 PM PDT by Enchante
GLASGOW -- Last Saturday afternoon, baggage handler John Smeaton was standing in front of Glasgow Airport smoking a cigarette when a Jeep Cherokee burst into flames nearby. He watched its burning driver emerge. A police officer pursued the passenger.
What happened next has turned Mr. Smeaton, 31 years old, into an unlikely folk hero. When he saw the passenger hitting the officer, Mr. Smeaton ran over and kicked the assailant.
Mr. Smeaton has been interviewed on the BBC, CNN and other networks about his response to the attack in which two suspected terrorists attempted to ram into the airport's main terminal. (See the CNN interview.) In a Glaswegian accent that is at times impenetrable -- Australia's Channel 7 subtitled its interview with him -- Mr. Smeaton voiced a defiance that has turned him into a de facto spokesman for Glasgow's fighting spirit. His message to terrorists: "You come to Glasgow, we don't stand for it," he says. "We'll just set aboot ye." (Translation: "In Glasgow, we'll just deck you.")
By the next evening, an admirer had created a Web site devoted to Mr. Smeaton -- nicknaming him Smeato. It includes links to his media interviews, purported details from his past (he once owned a ferret) and a plea for Britons to buy him a pint in the bar at the airport's Holiday Inn hotel. There is also a picture of Osama bin Laden with the caption: "You told me John Smeaton was off on Saturdays!"
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I see Cockney rhyming slang has hit Gleska - "Scooby" = "Scooby Doo" rhymes with "clue".
Love this poem that the WSJ reprints in its entirety:
Twas doon by the inch o' Abbots
Oor Johnny walked one day
When he saw a sicht that troubled him
Far more than he could say...
"Now that's no richt wur!"
Johnny cried
And sallied tae the fray
A left hook and a heid butt
Required tae save the day.
Now listen up Bin Laden
Yir sort's nae wanted here
For imported English radicals
Us Scoatsman huv nae fear
Actually I dont think it was his butt that was kicked.
LOL...
http://johnsmeaton.com/
enjoy! Or I’ll boot ye!
What a cool guy.
I thought this one was pretty great, John Smeaton as hero for our times:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2DDxqCMje8&mode=related&search=
Too bad a bus load of Scot soccer rowdies wasn’t headed out for a match somewhere. There’d a been a bit more than a proprer asskicking. Of course with the jihadist on fire there’s not much time to getinto the spirit of the thing.
Just further proof, that despite the best attempts of the liberals, that alpha males RULE!
Brit to Scot: What’s that you’re eating for breakfast, lad?
Scot to Brit: Oatmeal.
Brit to Scot: Oatmeal? In England we feed oats to horses!
Scot to Brit: Aye, and that’s why your English have strong horses, and we Scots have strong men!
Right with you on your post. Yes, indeed the instant fame may be even tougher than the psycopathic suicidal "martyr" that he stopped. As I see it, it was just a breath away from an ignition, that would have scorced the security and maybe our gallant lad.
Off topic here. Please forgive everyone. It was the greatest boxing hero of Glasgow- Benny Lynch who was destroyed by his popularity. Lynch was the flyweight champion of the world in the 1930's. Even when Benny tried to get back on keel, after losing, the crowd bought him drinks.
A knowing biographer quoth "They bought Benny a drink, when they should have bought him a meal". That being said.
God love this guy.
I think grabbed him by the nose, and then kicked him in the ass.
That kick of his was for all of us. Hooray!
bttt
Sam Johnson would’ve clobbered him one.
Scots hero ping.
Here’s my favorite clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ngh-Cxrd_U&mode=related&search=
At the end, Smeaton, talking to the ragheads, says “Come to Glasgow and we’ll set about you”
I’ll be glad when heroic acts are the rule, not the exception. A few coma-inducing ass kickings of militant Islamists trying to cause trouble on airplanes would be a good start.
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