"That's right Osama, this is how we do things in Raintown," the site proudly declares. "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."

Smeaton was on a cigarette break Saturday when two men drove a burnig car into the airport and began struggling with a police officer. After seeing the crash, Smeaton told local news that he thought, "that's not right," and ran over to assist. "All that was going through my mind was I've got to help the policeman, I'm not letting these guys get away with this," he said.

Before providing a link to buy Smeaton a beer at the Glasgow Airport Holiday Inn through the PayPal online payment service, the site offers the following toast to its new hero:

"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."

"His Glaswegian accent is kinda thick." I agree, but I suspect he finds 'our' accent somewhat funny.

MSG Tee,

he finds our 'accent' somewhat funny

Prolly.

On the other hand, the guy who did "Trainspotting" was so convinvced that it was hard to discern he put sub-titles in the movie at one point.

Bani,

Not saying the whole thing might not be a psy-ops thing just that this guy looks legit.

Be Well.

7/11 the Ultimate Slurpee.

Nobody's gonna leap the obvious conspiracy gap here and realise this was all an elaborate hoax so a Scotsman could get free beer?

Massive governmental conspiracy or just a cheap, thirsty Glaswegian with a cunning plan?

In a country where tea bags hang from every wash line and condom repair shops prosper?

At the DR ...we retort, you deride!

Be Well.,

'al-Qaeda' puts on big shoes, red nose, takes custard pie

Analysis The "car bomber" hysteria gripping much of the British and international media over the weekend has had a bucket of cold water from the Reg already, but just one bucket doesn't seem enough for this kind of outbreak.

To recap: an exceptionally incompetent group of troublemakers, unknown to the plods or spooks, decided to bring a spot of terror to old Blighty starting last Friday. These people had no actual explosives, and were apparently too lazy and ignorant to learn how to make them. Instead, they decided to load cars with petrol, domestic gas cylinders and "containers holding nails", and then set fire to them - either manually or using a cellphone-initiated remote rig of some kind.

Some selected headlines:

"Police avert car bomb 'carnage'" - BBC

"London on the Edge" - Belfast Telegraph

"Terror in Theatreland" - Daily Record

Normally reputable news sources used phrases like "explosives-packed cars", "Qaeda Tactics" and "a third attempt to create terror mayhem in Britain in under 36 hours. Only luck saved lives".

This isn't just rightwing hacks pumping up fear so that the evil securocrats can steal money from hospitals, aid, road safety etc, as our own Thomas C Greene has suggested (As an aside, for UK readers, the health-service budget alone is around three times that of the Defence ministry - and the Defence budget is the big fish in the UK securocrat pond).

Good points, Jeff.

This amaturish, almost comical attempt, (in comparison to actual AQ operations) has been played up inordinately.

In other news, the terror alert levels in the UK have been eased back a notch fer the first time since all this started.

Also AQ alleged second in xommand released another vid on the net through the AQ's media arm.

Same Blah blah blah as alwys.

59th such release this year.

The AQ's media arm delivered 58 fer all of 2006 so Spud finds that significant. Like the fact that none of the UK "terror strikes" were even mentioned.

Funny ole world.

Be Well.

multinational/
I ment to say multinationacorporatism

Make jokes, be stupid, it's your future to.
Most people are still in denial about 911, but more people are waking up every day.
It is quite funny actually that people that believe the "Official 911 Report" call people that don't believe it "Conspiracy nuts", when the nuttiest conspiracy theory of them all is that some goat hearding arabs living in some caves off in some far away third world land succsessfully perpitrated the worst attack since Pearl Harbor on the most Militarially technologically advanced nation on the planet.
It is amazing how well the corporate media has been able to brainwash and dumb down the masses.

On the other hand, the guy who did "Trainspotting" was so convinvced that it was hard to discern he put sub-titles in the movie at one point.


Spud - you should try READING "Trainspotting," as I did. Wow. The accent is written into the entire book. Add to that, words and phrases I'd never seen before. Took me about 60 pages to get used to it, which is more leeway than I normally give a book. But the payoff was worth it. What a farking great piece of work. I haven't seen the movie, but I loved the book.

I'd buy him a beer.

Wow, a thread full of JeffnDenmark and Dethspud posts? I think I'll pass.

Ya Joe, we will really miss you to.

My family is Glaswegian-it helps to have a couple of drinks in you before conversing with them. Them having fewer drinks in them also helps.

I hope he is not expected to drink all of the Beer in one sitting!!

Spud -- Funny! "Looking for a light!"