nice video of solution to school bullying

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

(Note: May be NSFW!) http://deadspin.com/#!5781702/the-ultimate-anti+bullying-psa-kid-fights-back-with-devastating-body-slam

looks like that hurt      good
looks like the lil sob only got bold cause he had backup   he thought

[41magsnub]

That was awesome.  I hope the little punk learned something in the process.

I've been that bigger kid before.  I was picked on a lot by one other kid in 7th grade.  It went on for a couple of months.  I ignored him until he tried to get physical which ended badly for him.  It wasn't as awesome as the wrestling move in the video, but it was pretty one sided once he started it (think Ralphie and Scott Farkus).  A teachers aid saw the whole thing and the other kid got in trouble for it, not me.  I didn't get messed with after that.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

http://www.facebook.com/caseythepunisher#!/home.php?sk=group_132711806802243

[41magsnub]

In reading the facebook page, they are saying the big kid got in trouble for this???  He stood there was punched several times, then defended himself.

[makattak]

In reading the facebook page, they are saying the big kid got in trouble for this???  He stood there was punched several times, then defended himself.

Welcome to zero-tolerance, where it's a crime to defend yourself.

In fact, it's a crime to get attacked. Even failing to defend yourself will still get you suspended for "fighting."

[Grandpa Shooter]

The website this is on is not exactly work or home friendly.

[kgbsquirrel]

Welcome to zero-tolerance, where it's a crime to defend yourself.

In fact, it's a crime to get attacked. Even failing to defend yourself will still get you suspended for "fighting."

Da, because it's obviously the victim's fault for inviting the attack. He was asking for it, doncha-know. (Now where have I heard that before?)

Had an instance like that myself in middle school. The day the bullies graduated from words to shoves they got a quick lesson that the quiet nerd had no qualms about swinging away. This of course resulted in my suspension from school. My Dad however, who was born in the 1930's, couldn't for the life of him figure out why I had been suspended.    Dad: "What? When I was boy we would get in fights all the time, when it was over we went back inside and carried on with our school work."


ETA: With regards to the video..... HA-HA!! *points at laughs at the hobbled bully* Yeah, I know, I shouldn't be so gleefully schadenfreude about it (karma and all that) but there is a small, picked on, inner nerd boy that is laughing hysterically.

[eyebrows]

That was awesome.  I hope the little punk learned something in the process.

I've been that bigger kid before.  I was picked on a lot by one other kid in 7th grade.  It went on for a couple of months.  I ignored him until he tried to get physical which ended badly for him.  It wasn't as awesome as the wrestling move in the video, but it was pretty one sided once he started it (think Ralphie and Scott Farkus).  A teachers aid saw the whole thing and the other kid got in trouble for it, not me.  I didn't get messed with after that.

Yes indeed that was an awesome slam. That kid was put in his place with a thud

Had something similar to your story happen to me in the 7th grade. I was a real quiet kid in school, read more books then I spoke words I think. Anyway a group singled me out as an easy target to harass. They were wrong. I ignored it at first but that only made them ratchet it up. So one day I'm sitting in class and one of the dopes(sitting behind me) starts slapping the back of my head. At first I tried ignoring him but it was physical and he just kept hitting harder, the next thing I know I was on my feet and spun around, grabbed his desk and flipped it with him in it. No plan it just happened.
So of course throughout the rest of the day I get threats from all the people in this group about whats gonna become of me after school. Sure enough at the end of the day there were the 6 main guys of this group waiting by my bike. They said they were gonna whoop me. I put my stuff down and said right here I am. I knew just as sure that the sun would set that these guys were getting hurt today, and I think they could see that. They laughed at me and blew me off by walking away. Never had another problem or mean word said to me after that.

[brimic]

My son goes to a private school where there is still a bit more common sense left. He has lost recess priviledges a few times due to 'giving back' after being shoved around, but no suspensions.

[CNYCacher]

In my high school we had a guy named Will who was enormous.  Our senior year he was 6'4" easily and an EASY 300lbs.  He was no slouch either.  Football player, dairy farming family.  He had been up with the sun his whole life.  He was a good kid: very gentle, soft-spoken and polite.

His little brother Tommy had half of the family's ration of height, and none of the weight.  He was scrawny, with big thick glasses, and the target of one group's repeated bullying.  One day after homeroom I caught Will just standing in a doorway, looking angry.  This was odd, because I had known Will for about 8 years and I had never seen him angry.  About the time I came up to him, one of Tommy's bullies walked by with two friends.  Will took a step out into the hall, laid two hands on that kid's shoulder and sent him flying like a rag doll into the lockers on the other side of the hall.  He crumpled up on the lockers, fell to the ground, and looked up to see Will standing over him.  Will stuck a massive finger in that kid's face and bellowed "You leave my brother ALONE!"

That kid just whimpered "Okay.  I'm sorry!" as his friends ran off.

To my knowledge, Will was not reprimanded, and Tommy was never bullied again.

[makattak]

In my high school we had a guy named Will who was enormous.  Our senior year he was 6'4" easily and an EASY 300lbs.  He was no slouch either.  Football player, dairy farming family.  He had been up with the sun his whole life.  He was a good kid: very gentle, soft-spoken and polite.

His little brother Tommy had half of the family's ration of height, and none of the weight.  He was scrawny, with big thick glasses, and the target of one group's repeated bullying.  One day after homeroom I caught Will just standing in a doorway, looking angry.  This was odd, because I had known Will for about 8 years and I had never seen him angry.  About the time I came up to him, one of Tommy's bullies walked by with two friends.  Will took a step out into the hall, laid two hands on that kid's shoulder and sent him flying like a rag doll into the lockers on the other side of the hall.  He crumpled up on the lockers, fell to the ground, and looked up to see Will standing over him.  Will stuck a massive finger in that kid's face and bellowed "You leave my brother ALONE!"

That kid just whimpered "Okay.  I'm sorry!" as his friends ran off.

To my knowledge, Will was not reprimanded, and Tommy was never bullied again.

I love heart-warming stories like this.

Too bad we don't allow brothers to protect their siblings anymore.

[Jamisjockey]

In my high school we had a guy named Will who was enormous.  Our senior year he was 6'4" easily and an EASY 300lbs.  He was no slouch either.  Football player, dairy farming family.  He had been up with the sun his whole life.  He was a good kid: very gentle, soft-spoken and polite.

His little brother Tommy had half of the family's ration of height, and none of the weight.  He was scrawny, with big thick glasses, and the target of one group's repeated bullying.  One day after homeroom I caught Will just standing in a doorway, looking angry.  This was odd, because I had known Will for about 8 years and I had never seen him angry.  About the time I came up to him, one of Tommy's bullies walked by with two friends.  Will took a step out into the hall, laid two hands on that kid's shoulder and sent him flying like a rag doll into the lockers on the other side of the hall.  He crumpled up on the lockers, fell to the ground, and looked up to see Will standing over him.  Will stuck a massive finger in that kid's face and bellowed "You leave my brother ALONE!"

That kid just whimpered "Okay.  I'm sorry!" as his friends ran off.

To my knowledge, Will was not reprimanded, and Tommy was never bullied again.

I was easily the smallest boy in my grade almost every year.  My junior year I started running track (already a serious runner well before then) and the football coach would borrow me to run drills with his players. I improved the times of several of his linebackers who I became friends with.  I certainly didn't have any problems with anyone after that....walking around and eating lunch with two or three of the biggest dudes in school helps...

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

i was the same jamis  only i made friends with em by selling em pot  same end result though i was fighting a lot in high school

[S. Williamson]

My son goes to a private school where there is still a bit more common sense left. He has lost recess priviledges a few times due to 'giving back' after being shoved around, but no suspensions.

Consider yourself, and your son, lucky.

I fought back at the private school I used to go to.  I was a "Yankee" living in southwestern Georgia.

When the rich parents of the spoiled bullies found out that I had "attacked their kids," I was reprimanded and threatened with expulsion.

It was my first lesson in injustice.  It was also my first lesson on how to fight ten people simultaneously and win.

[Jamisjockey]

I've made it awful clear to my boy A) how I will skin his ass if he bullies anyone and B) how he is to respond to being hit first. 

[Monkeyleg]

My brothers and I are all skinny, and were really skinny in high school. We all had to fight bullies.

My next-oldest brother was a greaser, and was in 10th grade when we moved to WI. The high school was pretty much all jocks, which didn't help. My brother got beat up and harassed a lot. Finally he had some gorilla's he knew from another high school come over and stomp the jocks. He wasn't bothered any more.

I, however, followed him just a few years later. The younger brothers of the jocks who'd been stomped had it in for me. I didn't have any gorilla friends, so I just had to fight, and usually lose.

There was one guy who was worse than the rest. He was in the Golden Gloves program, and I guess thought he could use me for practice. I had to fight him more than anyone else.

I sometimes hope that I'll find out where he is, and that old age has caught up to him more than it has me. Payback's a b**ch.

[HankB]

I was bullied in 8th grade - teasing I could take, but then they started kicking around my book bag. After doing the stupid kid thing of chasing after it once or twice, I realized that the only way to STOP it was to take out the next kid who tried it. One punch, and the shock was awesome in the whole rowdy bunch - especially since I busted the kid's glasses. (It was OK, as I wore glasses, too.)

So we had to explain ourselves to a teacher . . . and to punctuate his side of the argument, the other kid kicked the teacher's briefcase!  

Teacher wasn't sympathetic to him after that.  

No suspensions, but about a week later he had to write me a letter apologizing, and I had to write his mother a letter apologizing for breaking his glasses. (My letter basically said "Sorry I broke your kid's glasses, I only wanted to bloody his nose, but if YOU were any kind of a good parent, you'd take more of an interest in teaching that thug you're raising good manners, you're really a lousy mother, what's the matter with you, etc. etc.")

That was the end of it.

As for the video . . . if I were the big kid and got suspended for fighting back and nothing was done to my attacker, once I got back to school my inclination would be to smack around the counselor/principal who issued a punishment for self-defense, and NOT the original attack. (Assuming my Dad, upon seeing the video, didn't do a little attitude adjustment on the administration first . . . probably involving a lawsuit initially.)

[Perd Hapley]

I also was picked on and then body-slammed the whole school into submission. I'm pretty awesome.

[Mabs2]

Scrawny kid picks on heavy kid.
What idiocy.

[Perd Hapley]

Scrawny kid picks on heavy kid.
What idiocy.

Shut up and hand over the lunch money.

[Jamie B]

I've made it awful clear to my boy A) how I will skin his ass if he bullies anyone and B) how he is to respond to being hit first. 

Same here.

My son is 8, in second grade.

The bully is JT, surely the spawn of Satan.

I told my son to hit him 4 times in the face, and put him on the ground if touched.

'What if I get in trouble, Dad?" "Tell them that you are defending yourself, son".

I told the principle about my instructions to my son, and added 'you know me, and that we are not raising pacifists'.

The principle just laughed, and nodded.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

i worry about my daughter being bullied by other girls  boys not so much  i'll pray for the boys souls. i taught her early how to hurt boys bad

[vaskidmark]

If big kid got suspended and little punk has no negative consequence from the school then big kid's parents need to take the video as evidence when swearing out a warrant for assault.

Tried to teach the former daughter not to fight unless she had to.  Seems a middle school squabble over whether or not she bumped against some other child dissolved into former daughter getting slammed into the lockers.  She did nothing but walk away.  No call from the school that day, or even that evening.  Almost did not find out about it from former daughter, either.

Met with the school administrators the next morning and after a rather one-sided conversation took the videotape to Juvenile Intake (folks you see to deal with juvenile crime).  Went back to the school with the cops to watch the kid get pulled out of class - not called out to the office but cops going into the classroom and cuffing her right then and there.  End result was the kid that assaulted the former daughter got probation.  I know - big deal!  But the kid's parents each got 10 days in jail for failing to show up three times in a row for the hearing.  I later found out they blamed their kid for getting stuffed in the pokey.

I am probably still a bad person for how I felt about that.

stay safe.

[Regolith]

Good for the kid.

I got bullied a lot in middle school for being the fat kid.  It was very hard for me, emotionally, to defend myself, because I got threatened with being arrested by the school principal the one or two times I did. Scared the crap out of me.  All I knew was that I was the one was being tormented, and I couldn't do a damn thing about because I was afraid they'd send me off to jail.

A lot of that changed when I got into high school.  I took up weight lifting during the summer between eighth and ninth grades because of my involvement in football.  It didn't make me all that much skinnier, probably because I didn't work at it hard enough, but it sure as hell made me stronger; I think I was stronger than around 95% of my class, and most of the guys who were stronger were either friends or were laid back and not the type who bully. The bullying dropped off precipitously after people saw how much I was lifting in gym class.

A few people still tried it once or twice.  The funniest was a pair of brain dead morons who joined my football team when I was a Junior.  They were twins, and they had some pretty out-sized egos.  One of them tried to intimidate me with how much he could bench press. I'm pretty sure he was using steroids, and his max was still almost half of mine.  It was kind of funny. Another time, one of the two tried to mess with me during the warm up laps we ran at the start of practice.  He came up, sucker punched me, then ran away.  Since he was faster than me, and we were running from one side of the football field to the other and back for the laps, I just waited until he was on his return leg heading back my direction, and flattened him by forehead butting him with my helmet. He was pretty wobbly when he got back up.  They didn't mess with me after that. 

[roo_ster]

I've made it awful clear to my boy A) how I will skin his ass if he bullies anyone and B) how he is to respond to being hit first. 

Yep, same here.  I tell both my kids they are to be kind even to the kids nobody is kind to.  You don't have to be their best friend, but bullying, tormenting, and the like is an option that will be met with terrible consequences at home. 

This bore fruit last year when I saw my boy being standoffish to another boy in his class.  Not mean, just, "I don't want to play with you" in response to a greeting.  Kinda cliqueish behavior, as the other kids did the same to the one.  Mother & I jumped on it with both feet, saying my son had to be cordial and respond to greetings appropriately.  Well, waddaya know?  After my son was cordial and spoke with him, it turns out the kid knew the entire Transformers song or something equally cool to 4 & 5 YO boys.  My boy made sure everyone knew the former leper had such coolness and he became mildly popular.  I spoke to kid's mother later that year and she said, "Your son is a rock star, according to my boy."  I dunno about that, but my boy seems to be able to defend himself (see below), but is still kind to kids, animals, and especially babies & toddlers. 


One of the kids on the basketball team was tormenting my boy and my boy wasn't sure how to respond, as he is a good & gentle kid.  The alpha bully worked toadies up into fellow tormenters.  My wife & I were on the same page: If he does it again, hit him as hard as you can in the gut.

Well, bully & his boys did it again, and alpha bully got his.  No more tormenting after that.  It is not nearly as fun when you can't breathe and run gasping to mommy & daddy, who saw the bullying and did nothing.  Hey, keep a tight reign on your budding sociopath if you don't want him to get punched.


I was large enough to preclude most bullying as a kid.  A bully had to have more than a year on me.  The freakiest bully was this overgrown freako asswipe with birth defects: no thumb on his hypertrophied left hand & arm and an atrophied right arm & hand.  Yeah, no-win situation.  After I had had enough, I nailed him back, we both got in trouble, and he realized I was his size, had two good arms, wouldn't take his crap, and could put the hurting on him with the 2:1 arm advantage.