Awesome way to deal with a bully

We had a bully at my high school who liked to pick on everybody, but he would bug my friends and I during lunch. We would sit on the outdoor bleachers and he would fling rocks through the bleachers at us or switch us with weeds on the back of the legs if we were wearing shorts.

One day after a rock hit my friend I decided I had had enough of him and I ran down to the end of the bleachers and grabbed one of the bats that were stored under there (couldn't do that these days). It was a nice lightweight aluminum bat. I had grabbed the end closest to me which happened to be the fat end, but I started weilding it at him anyway. He started in with his taunting, saying I didn't know how to hold a bat, he was a "safe" 20 or so feet away, at the length of the bleachers.

Before he could say another word I launched that bat at him and watched it flip end over end until it sailed right by his head. He laughed right as the fat end caught him in the back of the head. He thought it had missed him completely but nope it was still flippin'. He was a big dude and it knocked him down. Didn't knock him out though.

He was not in a fighting mood after he realized I had another bat already.

The seas parted in the hallways for about two days after that, and no one ever gave me any more E36 M3 at that school.

fasted58 wrote: Casey interview: http://aca.ninemsn.com.au/video.aspx#9cc5addf-333a-4adb-bc7b-9780c26f3863

That poor, poor kid. ...and there are way too many others in his same shoes. He's going to have some pretty serious anger issues and resentment when he gets older.

That said--he's a true folk hero now. It's proven that all of this BS PC "conflict resolution" is utterly worthless.

gamby wrote:

fasted58 wrote: Casey interview: http://aca.ninemsn.com.au/video.aspx#9cc5addf-333a-4adb-bc7b-9780c26f3863

That poor, poor kid. ...and there are way too many others in his same shoes. He's going to have some pretty serious anger issues and resentment when he gets older. That said--he's a true folk hero now. It's proven that all of this BS PC "conflict resolution" is utterly worthless.

I'm only the messenger here posting relevant info per the thread but I'm glad Casey struck back and the video went viral as it surely needs discussion on a higher level. It still baffles me why schools can suspend a six y/o for bringing a plastic army figure w/ a toy gun or a student w/ nail clippers when bullying goes on right under school administrations noses. No wonder kids carry real guns to school these days.

They aired an interview of the bully on the Today show.

93EXCivic wrote:

curtis73 wrote: To this day, I'm 37 and have never thrown a punch, AND I never berkeleyed a cheerleader. That's concrete proof right there.

I threw more then a few punches in soccer in Middle School and High School and I never berkeleyed a cheerleader.

Punching the cheerleaders... you are doing it wrong.

sachilles wrote: They aired an interview of the bully on the Today show.

Yeah, I saw that travesty. Bully was claiming victim. Said that Casey provoked him, and that he only did it as a result of him being bullied himself. Funny thing is, when they ask him if he's sorry about what he did, he hesitates before spitting out a half-hearted yes.

Coming from the bigger kid that was bullied in school, I completely understand Casey's position. There was a kid that continually messed with me in HS, and one day I had had enough. I knew a suspension was likely, but I dropped the kid anyhow. I recieved several threats from his friends after that, but there was no action.... and the teacher was cool enough to have looked the other way.

Personally, I'm GLAD Casey did it. Too many times we hear stories of kids offing themselves due to being bullied, and even when it is brought to parents/administration, nothing changes, and the bully waves the victim flag. Ritchie tried it here.... and will probably get away with it. Someone needs to explain to that kid, and that kids parents "No, you weren't a victim. You were a bully that got his ASS kicked. Be thankful Casey was smart enough to use his hands and not a weapon" .

I meant to add--the puke who was filming the incident should have gotten suspended, too. It's not dehumanizing enough to bully someone, but hey--let's film it, too.

I won't even watch the bully interview. He's just grasping at straws after getting e-castrated. berkeley him (and his parents).

mndsm wrote: and the teacher was cool enough to have looked the other way.

The teacher that was 'cool enough' to have looked the other way was also the same teacher that was cool enough to look the other way the whole time you were getting bullied.

reminds me of a story a friend of mine told me in college. This little douch would steal his friend's sushi during lunch (don't know what he was doing with a sushi lunch in high school) and smack him up side the head and so on, so one day he filled one of the rolls with a e36-m3 load of wasabi, and the lunch was safe from then on.

Personally I didn't get bullied much at all. I went to larger schools and i wasn't weird lookin enough to get singled out, plus I had some friends and we were mostly close to 6 feet or over. Surprizingly I wasn't picked on because I had long hair and played violin in the orchestra, but maybe people respected me for bringing 7 girls to my senior prom! It helps to own a big van and be non-threatening, plus the male-female ratio in the orchestra is WAY skewed, and half the guys tend to be a bit wierd, further skewing the non-creepy male/female ratio.

My fiance, though, was the class outcast real bad. She doesn't hold it against anyone, though. She's much stronger than I when it comes to that, I would've run a few over in the parking lot.

madmallard wrote:

mndsm wrote: and the teacher was cool enough to have looked the other way.

The teacher that was 'cool enough' to have looked the other way was also the same teacher that was cool enough to look the other way the whole time you were getting bullied.

Not entirely true. He knew the kid had a habit of it, and generally it was outside of the class the kid got laid out in. There were several other times before that that he had intercepted us before anything could go down, I think the time I finally pounded the kid he was sick of the kids mouth/attitude anyhow.

Did the teacher escalate the situation themselves somehow?

Did they somehow make stronger the reprecussions against your tormentor?

Did they increase the cost to this kid would pay for going after you?

Did they inform other administrators with the intention of stopping things? Or make aware the other kid's parents?

My point is simply that this teacher that you remember fondly also had a hand in the environment that caused your pain in the first place. They all do. Despite whatever assertion 'child experts' make, the administration creates the environment for bullying behavior to flourish, both in action an inaction.

Teachers and administrators aren't willing to put themselves at personal risk to do anything actually effective against bullying. I don't mean physical risk, I mean professional risk.

Take a look at what this Australian school did. One thing both the bully Richard, and the big kid Casey agree on is that this sort of behavior is extremely common at their school. Old news, nothing new. The administration's response was to suspend both kids once they 'became aware.'

This means the administration was either blissfully ignorant of the conditions the two kids say exist, the two kids who have no reason to agree with eachother are lying (highly doubtful), or that the adminstration only did something for their own professional expediancy since the video went viral. They had more at risk by not doing anything by that point. I see this as the closest truth; inaction by teachers and administrators is self interest.

Your teacher, mndsm, may have made what seems like some effort to curb this problem, but as I see it, government teachers in particular have little interest as a whole in exposing themselves to any risk of backlash or repercussion.