Kid Becomes "Little Zangief" in Response to Bullying

[newwiseman]

I commented on this when it was first here so I'll repeat myself a bit.

First don't yell at the school, school officials have their hands tied by the law and have to suspend anyone involved in a fight if they fight back or not. Officially this is to allow the school to investigate the situation surrounding the fight and guarantee all parties will be safe upon their return. Isolating the bully from rallying force in this situation.

Second If more kids stood up to bulling it would be less of a problem. But, as a school employee, I can't condone either of their actions.

Third telling staff about a fight doesn't usually do much because all the schools can do is contact parents until something actually happens in front of them, then the police can get involved; different places have various rules about threats.

Finally the bullies Mother should be ashamed, 1 her kids a bully, and 2 her kids a bully who got his ass stomped.

 

[MGlBlaze]

Wooooo! But seriously, what the hell did Ritchard Gale think he was doing? Dickhead. And you can tell his family are fucking idiots as well; Ms. Gale wants CASEY to apologise for her son being a dick? What the hell?!

Actually the mother wants HER son to apologize.

News linky: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8225229/bullys-mum-speaks-out-over-filmed-incident

The Escapist seems to have made a mistake on that one.

I have to side with penny-arcade [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/3/18/] on this one.

It is impossible to condone the pile-driver, especially since he came within about an inch of dropping the bully straight on his head and killing him, but it's equally impossible not to side with casey for striking back in a definitive way.

bully got schooled, bully deserved to get schooled. Im just really glad no one was seriously hurt, because it could easily have gone terribly wrong, and casey would undoubtely be facing charges if it had.

-m

Yeah, you've pretty much hit the nail on the head. The whole thing has left me with fairly mixed feelings based on how many ways the pile-driver move could have gone wrong, but thankfully what could have gone wrong did not go wrong for once.

 

[robert022614]

bravo Casey...bravo.

 

[Engarde]

This is a strange issue, to be sure. Under Australian law, or at least SA law, where the issue took place, it is actually illegal to record a video such as this and it is illegal to have a copy of this video.

That being said, I don't quite understand why this has spread so much. It isn't like this is an isolated incident and this has never happened before.

 

[Jonluw]

Here's a question. Who's the kid who filmed this video?
He's just as responsible of this video getting around as Casey and the bully.

As far as I understand, it's one of the bully's buddies.

OT: I say, The Escapist was pretty slow on picking this one up.

 

[Exocet]

That pile driver was beautiful,it brought a tear to my eye :')
I'm pretty sure Casey is currently wrestling bears and grew a glorious beard+'stache combo.

 

[The Man With the Soap]

I have to side with penny-arcade [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/3/18/] on this one.

It is impossible to condone the pile-driver, especially since he came within about an inch of dropping the bully straight on his head and killing him, but it's equally impossible not to side with casey for striking back in a definitive way.

bully got schooled, bully deserved to get schooled. Im just really glad no one was seriously hurt, because it could easily have gone terribly wrong, and casey would undoubtely be facing charges if it had.

-m

If Casey did end up killing the bully, I guess you would have had a different nickname. Probably one based on a character from Mortal Kombat.

I say, good for Casey. That little bully Ritchard deserved to have his teeth knocked out. If it weren't for his mother blaming the victim, I would say Ritchard could have learned a valuable lesson about social interactions. Better he's crying over a bloody nose now than lying dead in a ditch because he tried to punch Mike Tyson.

Casey was in the right in my opinion. That's the only way to stop bullies. Beat them at their own game. The last kid who came at me like that had to get his nose reconstructed, but I'm no longer being bullied, and neither is Casey.

 

[Tartarga]

The only way that could have been anymore awesome is if someone with a deep voice said "Finish Him!" after the kid owned the bully. A man can dream.

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

EDIT:

Ok, so the escapist had it wrong, and the bully's mom wants her son to apologize to Casey?

Good for her! Make the little runt learn some humility.

 

[warmonkey]

I'm so glad that as a modern society we celebrate acts of violence rather than being, you know, civilized.

I really don't get why this has garnered so much attention though. Not the first time something like this has happened.

If society has progressed to a point where any act of violence is unabashedly refused consideration, that society is not long for this world.

What do you suppose the civilized solution would be? What is your proposal? I would be interested in hearing ANYTHING, ANYTHING AT ALL that would both give the bullied kid a small measure of self-respect back AND perhaps give the bully an actual, visceral reason to, in the future, consider the repercussions of his actions (asking the bully to stop due to empathy towards the bullied is a fool's errand -- that's jumping to the end of the race before it even starts).

Welcome to reality, where VIOLENCE IS NEVER OUT OF THE QUESTION. It may be a terrible decision, it may be the wrong decision in almost every situation, but it's never something we should put out of mind. That's like living your life with the expectation that it will never rain, and that all rain is bad.

This is good violence. This video is making the rounds because, with all the terrible shit going on world-wide right now, it's good to see that at least some times terrible things are used for good ends. Violence in defense of the innocent against the transgressions of the evil IS ALWAYS GOOD.

Without the capability to do violence against those who would do violence to you, there can be no freedom. Period.

 

[Scott Bullock]

Actually the mother wants HER son (the bully) to apologize.

News linky: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8225229/bullys-mum-speaks-out-over-filmed-incident

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sydney-nsw/bullied-boy-at-chifley-college-dunheved-campus-suspended-after-fighting-back/story-e6freuzi-1226023526921

Crud, you're right. The article I read that had that quote was less than clear about that, and I apparently mistook it for her telling Casey to apologize. My bad, I'll fix that up. Thanks for pointing out my mistake.

To err is human, and all that.

 

[Tharwen]

Oh come on, Anonymous... DDOSing the school? Why?

It's not constructive, impressive, or even that difficult. It doesn't do anything useful, and is the equivalent of randomly punching people in the street when you see them do something slightly antisocial.

 

[Evilsanta]

AS I said in an other thread...


WAY TO FUCKING GO CASEY! That little shit deserved it.

 

[Wolfram23]

This version is hilariously awesome!! I heard the TF2 one before, it's ok, but this one wins.

 

[Internet Kraken]

I'm so glad that as a modern society we celebrate acts of violence rather than being, you know, civilized.

I really don't get why this has garnered so much attention though. Not the first time something like this has happened.

Fact is, that "modern" society does not equate to a "peaceful" one. As someone who had been bullied before, the last thing I ever wanted to do was get in a fight, but you know what? I ended up getting into them.

Why? Because the school officials refused to do anything about it. It was the same way from Elementary through High School, if it didn't bother or affect them, they weren't going to do anything about it. I will almost 100% guarantee you that Casey had gone to the teachers, the principals, the counselors, and they did nothing.

And to be blunt, when it comes to little pricks, the only way to get anything through to them is through a piledriver to the ground.

The excuse "the officials do nothing" is not a valid one and does not excuse violence in anyway. I was bullied a lot in school to, and I never resorted to physical violence. If you attack someone who bullies you, unless it really is in self-defense, you aren't much better than them. You need to be mature enough to understand this. Now I do understand that is very hard to resist the urge to be violent, especially when you are the victim. As a result I am not going to berate this kid as he was under a lot of stress. However, I will not praise his violent behavior and pretend he did the right thing and I will berate people who say he did.

Think about it; when you support this kind of behavior, you are essentially saying violence is okay so long as you believe you are in the right. As a society we should be moving away from that mentality.

-snip-

I never said violence was never justified. However, if you honestly think brute force needed to be used against a 4ft tall school yard bully who was lightly shoving someone, your being very immature. And it is not violence that caused this kid to stop bullying him, it's more likely a ton of people across the country berating the bully for what he did. Had this not become such a huge story I doubt the bully would have stopped. Despite what you might think, punching someone in the face doesn't make them stop tormenting you and quite often can have the opposite result.

 

[kittii-chan 300]

and that my friends is what you call KARMA. i especially like the way the bullied kid diddnt want to hurt the bully at first and was blocking his punches. but thhen he snapped and gave that damned midget kid what he deserved, a face full'o concrete.

 

[Citrus]

And after all this, the bully refuses to apologize? He deserves everything that's happened to him.

 

[dragongit]

Quickly! Hide this before Jack Thompson see's this and blames Video Games for teaching their kids violence! He's busy with the Shooter mod now! Quick quick!