A BAGGAGE handler who helped tackle the Glasgow Airport car bomb suspects has had a website created in his honour.
A BAGGAGE handler who helped tackle the Glasgow Airport car bomb suspects has had a website created in his honour.
BAA worker John Smeaton told reporters how he had raced to help a police officer restrain the suspects after they crashed a Jeep Cherokee into the terminal on Saturday.
During a TV interview broadcast around the world, he described how his first thought on being confronted by the two suspects in the burning vehicle was: "What's the score? I've got to get this sorted."
A website - Johnsmeaton.com - has been created hailing his effort.
And it has been deluged with scores of tributes and humorous comments.
The site also urges visitors to "pledge a pint" to Mr Smeaton as a reward.
It said Mr Smeaton's "have-a-go" attitude was typical of the Glaswegian spirit, and hailed him as the airport's answer to Jack Bauer, the all-action hero of American TV drama 24, played by Kiefer Sutherland.
The site adds: "Here's to John. This man shows us that the law-abiding, honest, brave citizen is still very much with us."
During the TV interview, Mr Smeaton - who is thought to be from Erskine, Renfrewshire - described how he had seen the two terror suspects getting out of the burning vehicle and attacking a lone policeman who attempted to subdue them.
Comments added by internet users include: "Keep puttin' the boot in to terror. Well done that man."
Another said: "Well done to John. But also well done to the lone policeman John went to help."
What our readers say
THE admirable John Smeaton told how he "restrained the gentleman". But we all know he decked the gentleman- and decked him good. In an ideal world, nutted. Because "that's no right". That's why the terrorists are losers, because people like John Smeaton simply refuse to be terrified.
LITTLE RICHARDJOHN
THE terrorists put Paisley on the map for all the wrong reasons - but John Smeaton put us back on for the right reason. As an expat, I can't thank you enough.
MOANA, Adelaide
O John of Smeaton When will we see your like again That fought and panned in two al-Qaida men And stood against him Osama's army And sent him homeward Tae think again
BIG AL, Paisley
