Scottish Man Stopped Olympic Torch-Bearer To Light His Cigarette

By on July 27, 2012 in news, United Kingdom

True story- This could only have happened in Scotland, reports Daily Star. According to a bystander, a Scottish man asked the Olympic torch-bearer to light his cigarette!

In downtown Edinburgh, while the Olympic flame-bearers carried the torch through Scotland, Calum MacDonald thought it was time for a cigarette but could not find his lighter. As a result, he nicked a light from the Olympic flame.

The torchbearer stopped running for a second to help the guy light his cigarette and reporters rushed to capture this strange moment. I wonder what the media would have reported if Mr MacDonald was Greek!

(Source: The Daily Star)

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  • Aetos01

    No respect from the British. So we should make sure they never again get the Olympics. And refer this every time they make their application to host the games.

    What would they say, if we did something like this to them?

    Ptoo sas. Dropi.

  • Euterpe

    This is totally disrespect. You are just rats playing the lords… and no this man is not Greek ηλίθιοι!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=536670689 Maria Labrat

    Δεν πατε να μαθετε καλα αγγλικα πριν μας κανετε συνεχεια ρεζιλι ;;;Ο αρθρογραφος εννοςι : σκεφτητε τι θα εγραφαν  τα ΜΜΕ εαν ηταν Ελληνας  (αυτος που βεβηλωσε τον Δαυλο) αναφερομενος στην προκαταληψη που υπαρχει εναντιον των Ελληνων απο τους ξενους. Eνω τωρα που την μαλακια την εκανε Σκοτσεζος δεν υπαρχει καμια αντιδραση.

  • Acroceramo

    A moment of DISRESPECT which should never have being allowed. It’s a shame.
    This is for  mr Calum Macdonald to read and learn :The Olympic Flame is a symbol of the Olympic Games. Commemorating the theft of fire from the Greek god Zeus by Prometheus, its origins lie in ancient Greece, where a fire was kept burning throughout the celebration of the ancient Olympics. The fire was reintroduced at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, and it has been part of the modern Olympic Games ever since. In contrast to the Olympic flame proper, the torch relay of modern times which transports the flame from Greece to the various designated sites of the games had no ancient precedent and was introduced by Carl Diem at the controversial 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.

  • Dimitrios G. Panagiotidis

    F**k, these are not Olympic Games, these are a joke. Brits, Scots, etc. you should be ashamed of yourselves you do not deserve the honor of entrusting you the Olympic ideal. I am disgusted!

  • Aetos01

    Ta agglika ta xseroume poli kala. Ala efharisto Maria, tou laiston imaste oli mazi se afta ta themata. Pou i xeni theloun na mas xsefthilisoune. Giati tosi zilia omos.

  • Megjo23f

    Ειναι όντως αγένεια και ελλειψη σεβασμού, έχεις δίκιο σ’αυτό. Οσο για το δεύτερο μέρος της πρότασής σους…. πρώτον, το κείμενο δεν εννοούσε αυτό που κατάλαβες. Η δημοσιογράφος… που είναι και Ελληνίδα αν το πρόσεξες…εννοουσε οτι αν ο κύριος ΜακΝτοναλντ ήταν έλληνας… τότε θα γίνονταν μεγάλο θέμα, ενώ τώρα επειδή είναι σκωτσέζος δεν έγινε τίποτα. Και δεύτερον, .. εσύ που κατάλαβες οτι αυτός δεν είναι ελληνας και μιλάς με τόση σιγουρια?

  • Pam

     Don’t class us all the same!!!   Are Greeks all lazy?  No ~ of course they’re not and millions of people saw the torch relay but didn’t do this!!!

  • Christos

     Slow the much oil (!!!!) ρε πατριώτη (stupid answer to a stupid comment)

  • Christos

     Σιγά τα λάχανα! Let the people have a smoke. Let us not make a big deal out of everything.

  • Dimitrios G. Panagiotidis

    Συμφωνώ αλλά μην με βρίζεις! “Πατριώτης” είσαι και φαίνεσαι, πάντως συμφωνώ ότι η απάντησή σου ήταν stupid.