It's not even two years since brave Scottish baggage handler John Smeaton became an overnight media sensation all around the world, when he helped thwart a potentially lethal terrorist attack at Glasgow Airport in June 2007, by kicking one of the terrorists. Smeaton, who famously declared "this is Glasgow, we'll set about you", was the toast of the world, the simple minded hero who did the right thing at the right time without stopping to think of the danger he was in himself. Websites were set up in his honour, media interviews were given, and awards gratefully handed over, even a medal from the Queen.
John Smeaton, it was clear, was a hero, and could never return to his old, simple life as a baggage handler who still lived at home with his mum.
How sad, then, to see that now, in June 2009, Smeaton has been reduced to becoming a tawdry "Smeatogram" who strips and attacks women at hen nights and corporate dos for just £150 a time. We tracked Smeaton to a Premier Inn in Rochdale where he was staying before performing his act later that night in the town's Boiler Room nightclub.
Smeaton angrily told our reporter to go away, snarling that "This is Rochdale, we'll set about you", but later that night he was sadly running out on stage in just a tiny pair of posing pants, and attacking a giggling, drunken hen who had been set on fire by her mates for Smeaton to kick to the floor, the highlight of his act. As drunken, braying, half naked women leered and jeered, he then removed the pants and brought himself to angry climax, thus dousing the flames.
For this former hero, the only baggage he handles now is tawdry tarts like this, a sad shell of his old self.
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