Sam went through "The Heart of Darkness" (by Joseph Conrad). He had suffered @ the hands of cowards who could only attack from behind ie knuckles on Sam's spine. So characters (some aged ~ 55 with a mental age of negative fifty-five deducing that they still hadn't been born!) reverted to the verbal attacks as Sam walked by them. Sam suffered idiots gladly - with a smile on his face knowin' that the gumbies had cowardly withdrawn to their dens!!

Sam had a hard time with the neds. It's the senile delinquents not educated that ruin the reputation of Rutherglen. The most dangerous animal in the world is the human being! Tigers & Lions are predatory; Vipers are venomous - all three are that way inclined due to natural selection (as Charles Darwin confirmed). Humans should not be predatory. A friend of Sam's indicated to him that it could possibly be predators (or locusts) that attempted to infiltrate Rutherglen to get to Sam. He was right.

It was not to castigate the town of Rutherglen nor the people, but to punish the senile delinquents not educated! For those locusts that had harboured in the town they had no remorse.
For no other reason they assualted an ex-airman, who was actually serving with British Forces some time ago for their liberty & freedom - even before they were born! They were scorpions (from the Russian fable of 'The Scorpion & the Swan)!

If I had the culprits' names who maimed me on my spine (more than five times) and had an attempted a Glesga Kiss, I would pillory them here.