Thursday, July 05, 2007

The John McClane of Glasgow

Those north of the border will no doubt already be familiar with Mr John Smeaton, or "the Smeatonator" as he's now known. This is the guy who - irritated at having his fag break interrupted - single-handedly took on the terrorists at Glasgow Airport last Saturday. As the wonderful article today in local rag "The Daily Record" quoted him as saying:

"This man went straight for the policeman and started attacking the policeman. You're not hitting the polis mate, no chance.

"I ran straight down towards him, hundreds of members of the public did exactly the same thing, we all ran towards the guy and tried to get a kick in, get a boot in.

"Just to subdue the guy."


Or to put it another way:

"This is Glasgow and we'll no accept this. You try this and we'll set about ye."

Understandably, the man has acquired legend status and his own fan club:
John Smeaton.com
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3 comments:

  1. Anonymous11:15 pm

    Uhhh, if he was the John McClane of Glasgow there would be no fecking terminal building left, , the reporters would all have been head-butted into next week, everyone would be covered in glass and also there would be a happy black guy nearby.

    I GUARANTEE IT!

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  2. Anonymous4:45 pm

    He's better than john McLean. He's currently serialised up here in the Sun. Today they had a photo of him aged 7 wearing glasses and a Clark Kent picture next to that. He's got 1300 pints via paypal behind the bar at the Holiday Inn Glasgow airport and there is a campaign to rename the Airport Smeaton International.

    My personal favourite quote about Smeaton is:

    John Smeaton doesn't read books, he simply stares them down until he gets the information he wants!

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  3. Anonymous1:42 pm

    Good post.

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