Drunk teen thug throws lifeboat hero overboard

inshore lifeboat Helen and Ian Tytler D-608 heading towards theBy Alexander Lawrie

A VOLUNTEER lifeboat member narrowly avoided serious injury after being pushed off his vessel by a rowdy drunken youth.

William Black, the RNLI lifesaver, missed the vessel’s propeller by inches after being barged into the water by boozed up Andrew Wood, 18.

Police were forced to chase Wood and his pal Lee Mackie, 17, after receiving a call concerning alleged vandalism to a shop window in Anstruther, Fife, about 7.30pm on Wednesday evening.

The thugs tried to avoid capture by jumping into the town’s harbour and swimming out to a nearby rock crop.
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