Not Your Average Bully

The story about the 68-year old bus monitor, Karen Klein, from upstate NY is beyond nauseating. If you haven't heard about Karen's story yet, the brunt of it is she was horribly bullied, harassed and threatened by some no-good-middle school students.


Just to give you an idea, their taunts included telling her she was a “fat ass,” “old ass,” dumb, poor and sweaty. When Klein finally attempted to stick up for herself and told the students “unless you have something nice to say, don’t say anything at all,” a student replied: “How about you shut the f**k up?”

I remember being mean to my middle school teachers, actually just my chorus teachers really, but that consisted mostly of ignoring their instructions to stop talking in class.. and maybe one time we tossed gummy bears at him while his back was turned and insisted the gummy bears fell from the ceiling. But that is elementary to what these Greece Middle school kids did to this poor woman.


Bullying is bullying and I don't claim to be any kind of anti-bullying advocate but what the hell is going on with kids these days? Sure their is violence on TV and in the movies and not everyone is lucky enough to come from a happy family, but if society and parents aren't teaching kids how to behave like decent human beings with real principles and manners than who is? Enough with telling congress they need to make anti-bullying laws, a trouble-maker will always be a trouble-maker until he/she understands what ethics and standards mean. 


We get pissed when 'nanny-states' want to ban us from drinking too much soda because our kids are getting fat, but then we want laws installed to teach our kids how to behave well in school. It's not up to congress to raise our children to become honorable citizens who are courteous and nice.


Watch the horrific brats caught on tape below and if you have kids, siblings, cousins- whatever, it may not be a bad idea to have a conversation with them and remind them that bullying isn't just kid on kid violence, bullying is just a word someone made up ( it actually formed its negative meaning around 1700 when "bully" came to be similar to "pimp," giving us the connotation of a ruffian or harasser http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=bully )... Bullies are basically criminals, they're hateful, malicious and have no remorse.

The video prompted an outpouring of support and a fundraiser by an international crowd funding site has been set up to send Karen on the vacation of her dreams.. As of 1:00p ET today they have raised $215, 631 .. feel free to donate if you feel so inclined.