I agree, but at the same time everyone's been bullied at one point or another so yeah it's nice to see the victim walloping one on occasion. I don't think anyone's saying the Rat needs to die or anything. He's just a little shit-stain who finally got what he deserved for being a dick.Really, can we stop quoting The Dark Knight? It's a little creepy how much people are projecting onto the bully. He's a 16 year old kid who was being an asshole. He's not a sadistic murderer.
The little one punched him in the face, and struck at his body a few more times. The big kid knocked most of those away. I think he gave him every opportunity to stop - you can see him telling the small one to stop, and the little one getting more aggressive because of it. The little guy could have walked away at any time, but he pushed the situation until the big guy reacted. I don't think anyone's going to fight him any time soon, so I'd say the situation was resolved. A less extreme method might have ended it that day, but what about the next day? Some bullies just keep bringing more friends.If the kids were actually anywhere near the same age (and as young as they look in the video), then I'd be pretty quick to cheer for Casey too, but this is a grade 16 year old picking up a 12 year old and hurling him to the ground. Sixteen. kid should know how to deal with bullies better by this age, especially bullies 3 grades younger than them. And if violence HAD to be the answer, it didn't have to be a pile drive onto concrete. It could have been a whole lot less and still have more than gotten the message accross.
I am dumbfounded by this. A hypothetical and non-specific method might have ended it that day, but hypothetically the bully might have continued after that, and so this, therefore is the only viable solution? Hypothetically it doesn't end after this either, you know.A less extreme method might have ended it that day, but what about the next day? Some bullies just keep bringing more friends.
Teamed up to fight the evil known as...And now begins the battle of Captain Hindsight vs. The Hindsight Crusader?
What they should have done was...
Well hopefully the whole thing smacked some sense into him...Honestly I feel bad for that "rat" kid. Not to say he didn't deserve his smack down, he did, but what must his life be like that at 12 years old this is who he is?
I hope he gets the help he probably needs and I hope it's not to late for him.
We also know this to be true because he already had friends there! They were the ones filming and egging him on. Casey only had one person step up to help him and even that was after the fact.And saying that some bullies bring more friends was not a hypothetical. I know that from experience.
We're going with lessons learned from Ender's Game?A less extreme method might have ended it that day, but what about the next day? Some bullies just keep bringing more friends.
You...you killed him?I too got the shit beat out of me physically and emotionally during my time in school. crescendoing when after coming back from summer vacation my junior year and gaining 4-5 inches of height and a good 20-30 pounds of weight I got attacked by my long time bully and punched him straight in the throat so hard he went down and never got back up. bullies are horse shit, I don't give a shit what their sob story is after the fact of having their ass handed to them by their victims. you keep picking on people and eventually someone is going to give you a walloping.
Um, yeah. More information, please. O.OYou...you killed him?
I was bullied throughout my school days all the way until grade 10 when I snapped and went to town on the two leaders in gym class. I hacked out the legs of one of them with a goalie stick (we were playing floor hockey at the time and they had just body checked me out of the net... again) and when the other one grabbed me from behind I flipped him over me, kicked him and knocked the wind out of him. I was terrified of retribution but luckily it never came... they still made fun of me and stuff but never physically picked on me after that. Damn it I hate bullies... I never had anyone to back me up in my school years and they made my life a living hell. I don't give two shits about what was going on in their own lives... they had no right to treat me the way they did for nearly ten years. Later as an adult I found out that they both came from dysfunctional families and one of them was beaten by his dad fairly often. Tragic... but it doesn't give them any god damn right to take it out on me for years.
I just hope that Casey is more or less left alone at school after this... I remember how I felt after reaching my breaking point and I was terrified that I would be beaten up even worse for what I did.
Fucking bullies... as if being a kid isn't hard enough sometimes.
Heh, it's been years since I read it. That's a valid point - obviously this wasn't a life and dead fight, and thankfully it didn't escalate to that, though it could have if the rat had landed on his head. What I mean is that it was such an overwhelming (but justified) reaction that hopefully his peers will think twice.We're going with lessons learned from Ender's Game?
I full checked him into the gym wall. It's not my fault he tripped over himself and snapped his ankle. Lesson learned. Don't fuck with the kid twice your size who plays hockey and knows how to check. I'm still not sorry about it to this day.That seems... extreme...