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Let’s be clear, I was exposed to TONS of bullying. I once quite foolishly fought back and jumped one of our schools top wrestlers, resulting in me being in a headlock of course.

The version of the video I saw and which I believe was at the link, was extremely short. One kid throwing punches, the other immediately picking him up and finishing him off.

That and only that is why I was surprised people were so sure the VIDEO on its own, told the story.

last night on Greta, I caught a glimpse of a longer version with the smaller kid dancing around and throwing punches.

I know all about bullying, don’t support bullies, support the victims. I simply and only reacted to the version of the video which I saw, I never disputed the existence of a back story or that the big kid was, in reality, being bullied.

Nor did I ever defend the little kid, I simply said the video I saw didn’t explain what happened in terms of the bullying story.

I do appreciate and identify with the story you related.

And lastly, I have myself posted a great story from my childhood in which my (formerly) wimpy friend was being beaten up by the neighborhood bully, until the much bigger bully made the mistake of kicking him in the groin, at which point my friend went completely ape and beat the crap out of the bully with a flurry of punches.

I hope that clears things up.

Glad to hear you survived the wrestler, lol, that was tough I'm sure. You say ‘foolishly’ but did he continue to harass you after that? Most of the time the bullying stops once the ‘bullied’ puts up a stand. It's usually no longer worth the trouble and they move on to someone else. My only regrets in high school were the times I didn't make the bullies pay for their ‘fun’.

My apologies are in order as we didn't see the same clip. I had seen a longer clip before coming to this forum (didn't know there was a ‘shorter’ version) and in it, you could hear the comments and laughing of his companions as they watched him approach and start slugging the bigger kid. That longer clip left no doubt as to what was going on. All three of the aggressors should have been suspended.

I had also heard an audio clip of an interview with the bullied kid on Glenn Beck in which Casey admitted being so depressed about the bullying that he had thought of suicide a year ago. Very sad indeed.

But even with the clip the reporter had shortened, you could see the big kid taking a nonaggressive stand. Had he been the aggressor in an earlier conflict, he would have been expecting retaliation. When you expect trouble, you would at least take a defensive stand. The smaller kid is obviously the aggressor. Plus we all know that reporters never, ever, try to mislead the audience, right? ;-P

I remember real justice, the kid who ruled the playground in the first through 5th grades who quit growing in the 6th and became a short runt in high school...payback’s rough.