John Smeaton – Day 1

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As thousands of Glaswegians queued, moaned and sneakily sipped Buckfast on a rainy Saturday afternoon, one man stood vigilant outside the airport terminal. Baggage supervisor, hero, smoker. John Smeaton.

Little did he know, as he happily dragged on his fag, that two crazed al-Qaeda operatives were preparing to meet their maker. But they didn’t meet their maker. Instead they met BAA’s answer to Jack Bauer.

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.

al-Qaeda ‘Smeats’ its match

Those hapless al-Qaeda boys were to find out that Glasgow has no respect for international terrorism. Nobody gets between 10,000 Weegies and a £99 week in Ibiza booked on Thursday night through Barrhead Travel.

And most of all, no-one messes with The Polis. Not in this town.

Smeat-on Smack-Down

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.

He’s Shouting Allah – Allah

Smeato Censored?

The clips above are rare footage hunted down from ITN’s late Saturday night news. That’s right. 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.

But what happened in Big J’s later interviews? The later CNN interview shows a more caring side to the one-man anti-terrorism unit. Or is it something more sinister?

CNN Interview

Now the “big boy” is only getting “subdued”. Or has Smeato’s stream of consciousness been censored? Big Media don’t want you to know that the public are getting involved. The Polis don’t want you to know that without Big J, it could have been curtains. This is one of the many mysteries that we want to get to The Truth of with on our Holiday Inn night out with John.

BBC News grabbed Big J too. Hear him talk about the famous gas canister on a bonfire analogy as he demonstrates the intensity of the fire. BBC Interview

Blitz Spirit

Here’s to John. This man shows us that the law-abiding, honest, brave citizen is still very much with us. Here’s to his heroism, his straightforward belief in right and wrong, his support for Law and Order, and his willingness to give a good kicking to someone richly deserving it.

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