[NEW] Queens Guard Attacks Tourist In London-23rd January 2009

A QUEENS guardsman (SCOTS) saw red when a giggling student took the mickey out of him outside a royal palace by mimicking his actions - and went on the ATTACK.

Columbian student Nick Ibarra, 23, began larking about for pal Suzanne Cadosch, 22, who was videoing the armed guard on duty in his bearskin and red tunic.

As the guardsman marched up and down as he stood sentry duty outside St James Palace in front of dozens of tourists, laughing Nick marched alongside him.

He had heard that the famed royal guards never leave their post unless a threat to the royals presents itself. But he got the shock of his life when this one lost his cool and quick marched over to him and clipped him round the back of the head and aimed a boot at him.

Then according to Nick he pushed him away with his SA-80 semi automatic rifle while letting out a furious roar.

Unfortunately Nicks student pal Suzanne was so shocked and scared she stopped videoing the soldiers attack.

She said:I just thought Oh My God hes got a gun and hes going for Nick and he grabbed him and tried to boot him and we were so shocked we just ran away fast.

You often see people pulling faces at the guards and standing beside them for photos and marching along with them but obviously this soldier didnt find it funny.

In hindsight I can understand the soldier losing his cool but it was very frightening indeed she said.

Nick, who is studying English in Oxford, Oxon, said: I felt this huge hand on my collar and managed to avoid a boot up the backside but he was growling like a bear.

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I was worried because he had a bayonet on his gun and didnt want that going somewhere painful! He pushed me away with the gun and I just ran for it, he said.

The guardsman was on sentry duty at St James Palace which is the senior Palace of the Sovereign and is where the Princess Royal and Princess Alexandra reside.

The St James Detatchment of The Queens Guard mounts sentry duty there daily and Clarence House where Prince Charles and his sons live is within St Jamess environs.

A Queens guardsman, on being shown the video, said: On one hand you can understand him wanting to put a hobnailed size 12 up the guys backside for taking the p**s.

But on the other hand he will be in hot water for losing his cool when he should have ignored it. He should have gone back into his sentry box and just stood guard.

But he will no doubt feel very satisfied at putting this oik to flight, he said.

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[JPUK5bbd]

I hope you truly realise what you just said! Do you work for a living? If so, then I think you really need to think of what you just said. Unless you work for yourself, own and run your own company you are always going to be someones bitch! As regards to the rest of your comment, that was just as ignorant. Now if you're a tree hugger then ok, good luck to you!

[MrVillamike]

They are active soldiers that do tours of duty. They are not for tourists amusement to take the piss out of.

[gotsda]

Diana was killed in a car crash.

Equally, you like Diana yet you do not like the Queen? What did Diana do to deserve being a Princess?

I support her because I like having a monarch, not because I am British, there are many British people who dislike the Queen. I find it quite condescending that you think I support her because she is my Queen as the only reason.

[TECpeds94]

I do not mean to disrespect you nor insult you because i am not that type of person, i respect your opinion and its fine but you are responding in such a way because you are part of the UK which again is fine but you do not need to defend her. She didn't do anything for no one she is the largest land owner of the world and what has she done to help others NOTHING! She killed Diana (a great person) which most will disagree on and more. She is evil i can see it in her eyes, selfish greedy devil!

[gotsda]

"what has she ever done for others."

Just as an example she worked as an engineer fixing buses in WWII and stayed in London which put her in as much danger as anyone else.

Regardless of whether she remains the Queen she is going to be rich because of her estates (All the money of which go the state) and has no authority other than ceremonial.

She does a hard job, and you think she just sits on a throne all day. No respect.

[TECpeds94]

I completely agree expect for the Queen thing. Shes a bitch she owns like half the world (exaggerated) and what has she ever done for others. Shes a stuck up snotty selfish girl whom i dont consider human, and seeks for only money and power but other than that your comment is totally true!

[Melanie Dodge]

The soldier's response does help to get the message out to the rest of the world that one should not test the system in this way, but the guards really did put up with it for ages, as a matter of proving their unwavering resolve and superb training, up until just a few years ago when the culture of terrorism took hold. The specific details of how a soldier should respond to idiots, I think, do need to be better addressed. Scare them, sure, but don't assault them right off the bat.

[Melanie Dodge]

Thousands of people of all ages have copied these soldiers in person, without such incidents as this, not as a form of mockery but as a form of entertainment. While such behavior may be commonly regarded as disrespectful when the individual is about 14 or older, it is generally not intended to be so, but is thought justified and believed to be a tolerated, accepted and even expected behavior, not something that is personally or culturally offensive, due to such precedence.

[MrSapperb3]

I watched a video of her being interviewed by the Sun and she's American.

[showbiz408]

Disrespectful little idiot!!

[TheTeezygeezy23]

She's lucky she didn't giggle her silly behind all the way to the hospital...

[TheTeezygeezy23]

Come on bro, she's not a yank! Real yanks love England...