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09/16/2009
Real Life Bully Beatdown
I write a lot about bullying on this site. No doubt many of you had a kid like this in your neighborhood who bullied others, though you probably didn't have a cell phone to capture it when he got owned.
Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...
Posted 9:50 AM EST by Andy Towle in Bullying, News | Permalink
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Awesome! The bully got what he deserved. At first I thought the "victim" went too far and perhaps he did with that last hit, but I wonder if the bully would have shown any mercy?
Posted by: john | Sep 16, 2009 9:50:31 AM
Cool.
Posted by: Rick | Sep 16, 2009 9:51:40 AM
Good for the kid. But what's sad is that the cognitive status of much of America doesn't mature much more past this point.
Explains a lot, doesn't it?
Posted by: The Milkman | Sep 16, 2009 9:53:09 AM
I so agree, Milkman.
Posted by: Carmen | Sep 16, 2009 9:58:36 AM
in junior high, i was bullied and i finally started fighting the guy almost exactly like this and my dark haired idol stepped in and said he'd do it for me. Never got hit again, although my father did end up driving me to school for rest of year.
Posted by: cd | Sep 16, 2009 10:03:52 AM
Yay! The good white trash guy beat up the evil white trash guy. The next video will show the evil guy coming back with a gun, and blowing the good guy away.
Posted by: David in Houston | Sep 16, 2009 10:07:32 AM
And then the bully went home and got his dad's gun and shot the "victim" as he left his home for school the next morning.
Posted by: Wayne | Sep 16, 2009 10:07:41 AM
"Beware the fury of a patient man."
-John Dryden
Posted by: Mike | Sep 16, 2009 10:09:55 AM
THEN the bully got his gun shot his classmates, then the nedia has somethign to sell....and everyone can point the finger at the kid and feel better about themselves....oh yeah. watching this video made me feel like a bully.
Posted by: Bosie | Sep 16, 2009 10:14:26 AM
...it's sad that some of you went for the gun...
Posted by: Kevin | Sep 16, 2009 10:20:10 AM
That little kid is so gonna get laid.
Posted by: crispy | Sep 16, 2009 10:21:32 AM
You have to realise that this bullying phenomenon is almost exclusively USA.....this culture is preeminently USAmerican....(even the Canadians are afraid of what you're going to do next) ....I'm not saying there are not isolated incidents in Europe but they are rare. It should be clamped down on by the schools and the teachers should supervise school kids returning home....even if they have to work extra hours. This bullying is encouraged by your macho culture....your gun carrying....your steroid abuse...even your Hummer driving and your abuse of the energy resources, even the Christians want to bully everyone because they have a direct line to God ! You don't treat gays and blacks as equal before the law....Jimmy Carter was right last night. It's all part of the package... now you even carry guns to Presidential rallies, shout abuse in Congress and glorify Glen Beck/Limbaugh/Rove/Hannity/O'Reilly.....what does that say about a culture ? For God's sake you have been continually at war since when? And when you are not at war you are supporting proxies. And when you had a quiet time you invaded Granada ???? There is an underlying malaise....you got that right Jimmy Carter. And I'm a USA supporter..... think what your enemies are saying.
Posted by: JackFknTwist | Sep 16, 2009 10:22:20 AM
(contd.) ........so instead teachers are abusing/disparaging pupils that might be gay.(Minnesota case above).....thereby ENCOURAGING more bullying.....yeah, way to go educators of America !
Posted by: JackFknTwist | Sep 16, 2009 10:33:39 AM
i could watch this all day. the day i publicly beat the shit outta the kid that was tormenting me when i was 14 was a turning point in my childhood. i didn't know i had it in me, but it gave me confidence and ended my being bullied instantly, forever. good for him.
Posted by: b mac | Sep 16, 2009 10:34:45 AM
"You have to realise that this bullying phenomenon is almost exclusively USA."
Bullshit.
Posted by: Taylor | Sep 16, 2009 10:34:59 AM
So wait - twenty or so kids stood by and watched? This I find more telling and far more disturbing - the sport arena attitude of the kids milling and just waiting for violent spectacle. And that the expected victim delivers the beatdown makes it all okay? This is appalling.
Posted by: sfikus | Sep 16, 2009 10:35:09 AM
Pull up your pants and leave people alone - is the lesson is here.
Posted by: 2nd Class Citizen | Sep 16, 2009 10:36:48 AM
Jack, you got it all RIGHT. We are a culture that lionizes the aggressor and then excuses their actions as "human." Recent examples: Joe Wilson, Serena Williams and Kanye West. And that was just in the last week.
Posted by: michael | Sep 16, 2009 10:38:33 AM
it's beyond 'okay,' i think it's righteous. 20 kids learned a lesson that day that will serve them well.
Posted by: b mac | Sep 16, 2009 10:40:29 AM
@Taylor: Yes......USA....it does not happen in European schools......it is endemic in USA...and the rest of your culture confirms it.
Posted by: JackFknTwist | Sep 16, 2009 10:40:32 AM
Michael Phelps should kick the butt of every blogger who falsely claimed he ran some lady over.
Posted by: Let'sFaceIt | Sep 16, 2009 10:41:26 AM
"You have to realise that this bullying phenomenon is almost exclusively USA"
Wait, what? Charles Dickens and J.K. Rowling beg to differ.
Posted by: crispy | Sep 16, 2009 10:42:18 AM
Why is this on here? Because the kid is shirtless?
Posted by: Fenrox | Sep 16, 2009 10:43:46 AM
Ask India and Ireland about British bullying.
Posted by: Let'sFaceIt | Sep 16, 2009 10:45:47 AM
I wish the kid would have kicked the bully in the balls at the end then in the head.
This brings back so many bad memories of getting beaten up as a kid from two thugs at school. I have such a visceral reaction to anyone confronting me now that it scares the few people who have seen it.
Posted by: Frank | Sep 16, 2009 10:46:18 AM