This has gone ‘round the world twice by now, but I couldn’t let it pass without comment.
You often can often find Youtube clips of kids being dreadful to each other, such is the nature of the day. Further, you quite often see would-be bullies, who’ve organised a friend to video their victim’s torment, biting off more than they can chew and getting a good hiding.
What you don’t often see is instant justice quite as satisfying as this:
However yon scrote thought his day would turn out; I don’t think it featured those events.
The big guy got suspended, and I can kind of see why the school would pretty much have to do that; what with the overt pondlife smashing and all.
But no matter, he can kick back for a couple of days and go back to school knowing that his days of torment (and they were numerous, apparently) are over.
Obviously there has been much cheering and frowning on the intertubes, as best commentated here by Popehat. Needless to say, the reaction from some quarters is all so very predictable:
[P]olice and bullying experts are concerned by the video’s publication on Facebook and the overwhelmingly positive reaction to the older boy’s retaliation against his attacker.
“We don’t believe that violence is ever the answer,” [seasoned bullying expert John] Dalgleish says. “We believe there are other ways that children can manage this.” …
“The longer term way is about developing better relationships between kids in the school, that will then empower young people to not be passive bystanders when these acts occur but to stand up and say ‘this is wrong’,” Mr Dalgleish says.
“The short term solution is to have individual counselling with each of the children.”
Yeah you could do that. Or you could feed the fucker into the pavement and teach him a valuable life lesson while practically guaranteeing yourself increased social standing and self-respect. Or at least eternal recognition in the hallowed halls of ED, and be immortalised as a /b/ meme for at least 3 months.
Sometimes violence really is the answer.*
*Caveat: Might help if you are several times the size of your assailant who very obviously has shit for brains, as in this example
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"The short term solution is to have individual counselling with each of the children."
Translation: "Please give all my chums a job!"
Hmm, my comment went missing, sorry if this posts twice.
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Fk yeah! That is what I'm talking about.
Sorry John "Seasoned bandwagon jumper" Dalgleish, when someone half your weight is messing with you because he thinks you're an easy target, violence IS the answer. Individual counselling? I think the scrawny toe-rag just had a one-on-one session that left him in no doubt as to the errors of his ways.
Made my day that, cheers.
Hmmm, I'm not such a fan. I mean, the big lad's closedown technique is pretty good, the side headlock isn't bad, but then he can't seem to make up his mind if he wants to go for a belly to belly suplex or a powerslam.
In the end he applies a very untidy sort of flapjack, but he doesn't get full body extension on the puncher.
I think he should spend his couple of days off with the other lad so he can use the time to perfect his execution of what is a fairly basic move. He just doesn't get the aerial rotation for the powerslam, so I'd recommend he go for the suplex.
"The short term solution is to have individual counselling with each of the children."
No it's not. The short term solution is to take action which requires that a)the bully stops bullying - i.e the threat is eliminated and immediately and b)that the bully learns instantly to never ever bully again. The only method is that which the victim employed.
Talking about it ( counselling ) would not satisfy these requirements for effective action.
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