I'm guessing a few of you folks will have kept up with the news and seen the attack on Glasgow International last week...
It's a sad time, it's the first terrorist attack on central Scotland ever.
"As the Jeep's engine revved and the passenger started chucking the petrol containers out the windows like he was Santa in Shettleston, one man stepped in to help The Law take control."
JOHN SMEATON YOU ARE A LEGEND, YOU ARE GLASGOW THROUGH AND THROUGH! IF IN DOUBT, KNOCK THEM OUT!!!! (please excuse the caps, required for effect)
For a few crazy hours, the English media went a bit mad and let our very own Braveheart rule the airwaves. When the camera cut back to the studio, you could see them blinking and wondering just what language it was they had just heard.
"This isney happnin! You're no hitting the Polis mate, there's nae chance"
"So I ran straight towards the guy, we're all trying to get a kick-in at him, take a boot to subdue the guy."
When asked by ITV News what his message to terrorists was: "Glasgow doesn't accept this. This is Glasgow; we'll set about ye"
Never a truer word spoken!
ABSOLUTE LEGEND!!!!
I was watching it all as it happened (all the while thinking "holy shit, that's 20 minutes away from my house") and they had plenty of West Enders (well-to-do area, affluent, arty, poncey) and plenty of Tcheuchters, and I wondered... "Where the fuck are all the real people?" not that West Enders and Tcheuchters aren't real people, but they aren't a good representation of most Glaswesgians.
Then on came Smeaton...
"Aye.... right, aye ... everythin' wis gaun pure bananas right, and I sees this guy runnin' towards me ... and he wis on fire right... and I didnae know wit tae dae, so I just chinned him"
I salute this man and everything that stood for.
A little more quotage:
"Attack our beloved Glesga will you? Nae chance wi' John the superhero aroon' wi' the fist and doon wi' the heid, terrorists beware John is here. Oan yersel', bigman."
A message warned: "We have 5million John Smeatons, so be afraid."
Another comment said: "Good to see nobody's gony take this s**** aff these bams."
"That’s right Osama, this is how we do things in Raintown. This ain’t London. There’s no stiff English upper lip here, no WAGs. And it sure ain’t Edinburgh - they’d all be hiding in Harvey Nicks and hysterically babbling about their Tuscan villas. There’s no ‘Big J’ in Edinburgh airport, there’s no ‘Smeato’ at Heathrow. Here we take the law into our own hands. And feet."
So... here's to John Smeaton and his willingness to give a good kicking to someone who royally deserved it!
It's folk like John that make this fine city what it is, proud, willing to defend ourselves, even if it means standing up with our bare hands and panning seven bells of shit right out of a flaming man! HAIL!
