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My Hero, Alex McIlveen

July 4, 2007 urngarden.com

Today we’ll salute a patriot, not American but brave none the less.

Alex McIlveen, 45 A HERO cabbie who took on the Glasgow Airport terror suspects told yesterday how he kicked one of the jihadi in the nads so hard that he tore a tendon in his foot.

“The guy in the passenger seat was wearing a white T-shirt. He got out carrying what looked like a petrol bomb and seconds later the Jeep was in flames.

“Then he kicked and punched a man to the ground before punching a policeman square in the face. That’s when I saw red. That sort of thing just isn’t on.

“I told my passenger to run for her life, then I went for the man in the T-shirt and managed to skelp him in the face. I followed it up by booting him twice.”

“I’ve heard people say since that he was shouting ‘Allah!’  but I didn’t hear that. It just sounded like a lot of crap to me.

“I ran for the guy and punched him twice in the face with pretty good right hooks.

“Then I kicked him with full force right in the balls but he didn’t go down. He just kept on babbling his rubbish.

“I couldn’t believe that he was still standing. I know I would have been floored by that kind of kick.”

Well, the suspect Khalid Ahmed, a Lebanese doctor was flaming at that point, so he probably had other searing pain to deal with.

Rock on Alex!

Source: Daily Record UK

Filed Under: Confessions, Sports Tagged With: Alex McIlveen, heros, jihad, terrorism

You CAN Take It With You

June 5, 2007 urngarden.com

Today we bring you a list of items that families have placed in the casket of their loved ones compiled by an Ohio funeral director :

  • fishing rods
  • bow and arrow
  • golf clubs
  • golf balls
  • basketballs
  • autographed baseballs
  • baseball gloves
  • baseball, football and basketball uniforms
  • unloaded handguns, rifles and shotguns
  • decks of cards
  • bingo cards
  • lucky pennies
  • room keys from Las Vegas
  • cigarettes
  • marijuana joints
  • pet rocks
  • favorite books
  • a tape recorder
  • a glass eye
  • sexual devices
  • jewelry
  • fruit
  • nuts
  • photographs
  • leaf collections
  • coin collections
  • Penthouse, Playboy and raunchier varieties of magazines
  • Cremated remains of cats and dogs
  • Panties
  • Money

Filed Under: Confessions, funeral service, Memorial Service Ideas, mental health, Sports, urns Tagged With: funeral send off, funeral service, memento mori, mementos in the casket, memorial ideas

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