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Meet John Smeaton: One Kick and He Is The Hero of Glasgow [Kicked Terrorist Butt]
Wall Street Journal Online ^ | 07/07/07 | ALISTAIR MACDONALD and IAN MCDONALD

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!"

(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: asskicking; gla; glasgow; hero; letsroll; scots; smeaton; terror
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Good to see there is still a spirit of toughness among some Scots, in the face of decades of socialist wankerdom!! Maybe people like this guy will help to revive that fierce Scottish martial spirit that has been so enervated by wankers. What a useful kick, hope his newfound celebrity is something he can enjoy and not get ruined by.......
1 posted on 07/07/2007 1:37:52 PM PDT by Enchante
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To: Enchante
A good, old-fashioned, literal Scottish ass-kicking. This guy is getting a Christmas card from me this year. :-)


2 posted on 07/07/2007 1:41:14 PM PDT by Viking2002 (Fred in '08. Deal with it.)
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To: Enchante
Since last Saturday's attack, his friends tell him that women have been asking to be introduced to him. His cell phone is jammed with messages. He's puzzled as to why people are so taken with his story. "I haven't a Scooby," he says, meaning he doesn't have a clue.

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

3 posted on 07/07/2007 1:41:32 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: Enchante

Actually I dont think it was his butt that was kicked.


4 posted on 07/07/2007 1:42:34 PM PDT by mware (By all that you hold dear..on this good earth... I bid you stand! Men of the West!)
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To: AnAmericanMother

LOL...


5 posted on 07/07/2007 1:46:54 PM PDT by johnny7 ("But that one on the far left... he had crazy eyes")
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To: Enchante

http://johnsmeaton.com/
enjoy! Or I’ll boot ye!


6 posted on 07/07/2007 1:49:05 PM PDT by JerseyHighlander
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Oh man, I saw this guy on Fox the day it happened and I was smitten. Better not let Mr. Repo know...

What a cool guy.

7 posted on 07/07/2007 1:55:21 PM PDT by RepoGirl ("Tom, I'm getting dead from you, but I'm not getting Un-dead..." -- Frasier Crane)
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To: RepoGirl

I thought this one was pretty great, John Smeaton as hero for our times:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2DDxqCMje8&mode=related&search=


8 posted on 07/07/2007 2:03:15 PM PDT by Enchante (Reid and Pelosi Defeatocrats: Surrender Now - Peace for Our Time!!)
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To: AnAmericanMother

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.


9 posted on 07/07/2007 2:10:29 PM PDT by dblshot
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To: Enchante

Just further proof, that despite the best attempts of the liberals, that alpha males RULE!


10 posted on 07/07/2007 2:20:35 PM PDT by RepoGirl ("Tom, I'm getting dead from you, but I'm not getting Un-dead..." -- Frasier Crane)
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To: Enchante

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!


11 posted on 07/07/2007 2:32:37 PM PDT by Blue_Ridge_Mtn_Geek
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.....hope his newfound celebrity is something he can enjoy and not get ruined by.....

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.

12 posted on 07/07/2007 2:34:05 PM PDT by Peter Libra
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To: mware

I think grabbed him by the nose, and then kicked him in the ass.


13 posted on 07/07/2007 2:37:49 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: Enchante

That kick of his was for all of us. Hooray!


14 posted on 07/07/2007 2:42:13 PM PDT by Trteamer ( (Eat Meat, Wear Fur, Own Guns, FReep Leftists, Drive an SUV, Drill A.N.W.R., Drill the Gulf, Vote)
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To: Trteamer

bttt


15 posted on 07/07/2007 2:43:31 PM PDT by Guenevere (Duncan Hunter for President 2008!!!)
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To: Blue_Ridge_Mtn_Geek

Sam Johnson would’ve clobbered him one.


16 posted on 07/07/2007 2:43:41 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: UKRaddell

Scots hero ping.


17 posted on 07/07/2007 2:59:57 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Scratch a RINO, and you'll find a global elitist beneath the surface.)
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To: Enchante

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”


18 posted on 07/07/2007 4:24:56 PM PDT by WWTD
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Good on ye, Mr. Smeaton.

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.

19 posted on 07/07/2007 4:38:39 PM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Liberals are blind. They are the dupes of Leftists who know exactly what they're doing.)
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This type of citizen direct action is highly appropriate, and becoming more common here too. See this, this, this, and this.
20 posted on 07/07/2007 5:34:23 PM PDT by elhombrelibre (Democrats even want foreign terrorists to be treated like US citizens. Their love is misplaced.)
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