Posted on 07/07/2007 1:37:47 PM PDT by Enchante
They basically lined up and took a number ('here - let me have a go at him!') and when the police arrived the poor guy crawled over and begged them to arrest him . . . .
LOL!! Talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time!
I have some Scots-Irish in my background. My maternal grandfather was Italian, and my maternal grandmother was Irish. Not completely sure of the ethnicity of my paternal grandparents, though I know there is some Indian there; some family members say Cherokee. They were hardscrabble Mississippi folks, though, so I'm guessing they were part Scots-Irish, as were many who lived back in the woods.
I've always had an affinity for Celtic music; maybe that 'splains it!
We are some pure Scottish, some pure Irish, and some of the Scotch-Irish (i.e. the Lowland Scots who were sent by Cromwell to colonize Northern Ireland).
I don't look that Irish - I'm one of the "black Irish" - i.e. look more like a Spaniard than a "typical" Irishwoman. My husband is actually half Irish with the other half a grab-bag of French, German, English and lord knows what. But what's really funny is that our daughter got BOTH Irish halves . . . she is a pure Irish red-headed colleen (although her hair has darkened with age, she has bright grey eyes and incredibly fair skin, sunburns on a cloudy day, and her features look like we mail-ordered her from Dublin.) She went to Spain for the summer to live with a local family, and everyone refused to believe she was American -- "No! You MUST be Irish!"
Glasgow - The only place where the police have to protect suicide bombers from the general public.
My karate sensei's wife was a 100-lb slip of a woman, but a third degree black belt. A man twice her size once attacked her as she was putting groceries in her car-- she fractured his windpipe and hyperextended his knee. He was hospitalized for weeks and crippled for life. Yay! Too bad she didn't kill him, but it's the next best thing.
-ccm
I tell my kids don't ever get in a car with a thug. Kick, scream, fight (they're both green belts in Aikido - the dojo has a belt program for the kids) but you might as well die there as off in some remote location.
JOHN SMEATON IS RUNNING FOR A SEAT IN PARLIAMENT!
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090924/tuk-terror-hero-stands-for-parliament-6323e80.html
SET ABOUT 'EM, SMEATO!
lovin’ it!!!
thanks for the update
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