Middle Schoolers bully a 68 year old Woman to tears

[mikekerrIII]

"I"m glad people helped her to get a vacation, but $300,000!? c'mon people there are starving children in the world that need your money more. Don't get me wrong here, I feel awful for her and was glad when she had like 50K, but i think from now on maybe give your money to a real cause." Pretty much agree with that YT comment.

People get to choose the donation that they choose Just like you get to choose where your money goes

[snarkbunny]

And were so impressed with themselves they posted the video online.

Of course, could be these kids are so dumb they actually thought doing that would have no larger consequences. That wouldn't surprise me at all. In fact, it would cheer me up immensely. I'd hate to think kids with any intelligence would act like that.

The Youtube video wasn't posted by one of the kids, it was posted by someone else who saw it on facebook and was appalled. I don't know who took the original video and posted it to facebook.

What really depresses me is that the Greece police have had to put police protection on all 4 families of the bullies, due to threats to all family members, including the bully's siblings. Just as the money being raised for Karen is a wonderful response, bullying the bullies is a horrible and stupid response. And bullying the other family members? Beyond the pale.

[Donald M.]

What really depresses me is that the Greece police have had to put police protection on all 4 families of the bullies, due to threats to all family members, including the bully's siblings. Just as the money being raised for Karen is a wonderful response, bullying the bullies is a horrible and stupid response.

That is indeed sad. Threatening innocent uninvolved family members of the kids who did this so completely and utterly misses the point and so completely and utterly typical. Completely pathetic.

[mikekerrIII]

What a fucking douche.

His comment sounded pretty reasonable to me, maybe a tad mild/

[snarkbunny]

That is indeed sad. Threatening innocent uninvolved family members of the kids who did this so completely and utterly misses the point and so completely and utterly typical. Completely pathetic.

No wonder why bullying is still a problem. It's amazing how the same incident can bring out the best and worst of humanity at the same time.

[Donald M.]

His comment sounded pretty reasonable to me, maybe a tad mild/

I think he was responding to the idea that the bullies should be thanked because thanks to their act of cruelty, their victim now has a lot of money. I can't assume, but I think it's reasonable to imagine she'd be equally happy, if not happier, with not having been cruelly mocked and having her moment of humiliation posted on the internet for millions to see.

[Donald M.]

No wonder why bullying is still a problem. It's amazing how the same incident can bring out the best and worst of humanity at the same time.

Definitely. Even threatening the kids themselves is stupid and pointless. What they did was wrong and they should be punished - punished in the proper way, not by having to hide in their homes as they're inundated with death threats from idiotic strangers - but the kids are kind of beside the point. They aren't the problem, that they thought it was okay to conduct themselves in such a manner is the problem. Only a complete moron would think that threatening to kill them or their family is any kind of solution.

[GozertheGozarian]

I think he was responding to the idea that the bullies should be thanked because thanks to their act of cruelty, their victim now has a lot of money. I can't assume, but I think it's reasonable to imagine she'd be equally happy, if not happier, with not having been cruelly mocked and having her moment of humiliation posted on the internet for millions to see.

You'd be correct. It's from Fox News, so I really shouldn't have expected better.

[Donald M.]

You'd be correct. It's from Fox News, so I really shouldn't have expected better.

I hear that "Money Makes Everything Okay" was one of the slogans they considered before settling on, "Fair and Balanced."

[RolandJP]

And were so impressed with themselves they posted the video online.

Of course, could be these kids are so dumb they actually thought doing that would have no larger consequences. That wouldn't surprise me at all. In fact, it would cheer me up immensely. I'd hate to think kids with any intelligence would act like that.

The smartest people do the dumbest things on the largest scale imaginable--because they have the capacity to do them more sophisticated than run of the mill dumb.

those insults werent dumb they were rather clever.

EDIT: Thank you FOX news for proving my point. A bunch of college educated Journalists.

[coveredinbees]

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[needler420]

"I"m glad people helped her to get a vacation, but $300,000!? c'mon people there are starving children in the world that need your money more. Don't get me wrong here, I feel awful for her and was glad when she had like 50K, but i think from now on maybe give your money to a real cause." Pretty much agree with that YT comment.

Id rather donate to help animals then humans. Or in this case the lady.

[coveredinbees]

so do it

[The Black Guardian]

Man... I need to get a bunch of kids to mistreat me so I can get a few hundred grand.

[needler420]

so do it

I normally do. The last time I donated to humans was for the earthquake in Japan last year. Though I only did that because to donate you could use funds on PSN from PS3. Plus they make all my video games is the main reason I did it. Other wise Id rather help a starving animal then a human.