Some disturbing stuff I have been following-the bus monitor and the threats to the little tormentors [View all]

I’m certainly glad this video went viral and hope that it draw attention to a real problem

I’m sure most of you have heard by now about the video, “Making the bus monitor cry.” A truly disturbing video made by a group of 13-year old seventh graders from the suburbs of Rochester, New York showing off how they cruelly tormented a 68 year old grandmother who was working as a bus monitor – someone who tries to keep an eye on the children while they ride to and from school. Below you can find a link to this video if you have not seen it already. Be prepared for a shock. It is like watching true evil incarnated into a group of little children.

here is the original video



this is a short one a half minute clip that was not included in the 10 minute video that went viral



Well this video which one of the little tormenters did make and did post on the Internet ended up going viral all around the world. By now millions – probably tens of millions of people all over the world have seen it. This seems to have a triggered an absolute avalanche of sympathy for the poor lady who was so cruelly victimized that can be only matched by an even greater outpouring of outrage against these four little boys.

I must admit that when I first saw the video and heard that these children and their families were receiving volumes of hate messages and even death threats - I thought to myself, “good – those little bastards bloody well deserve it.” But then I started to read some of those threats and hate messages on the Internet and I couldn’t help but think that little seventh graders really are not equipped to be the recipient of an international bloodlust and hate campaign at least equal in intensity to anything ever directed against Osama bin Laden or Saddam Hussein. This just isn’t right.

Frankly, I was tormented and bullied terribly when I was in the seventh grade. But from what I can gather most of those bullies grew out of it as they got older and most of them have turned out to be decent and responsible people. I don’t think that one can look at even this horrific behavior when its coming from a child that age and simply pronounce them as an unredeemable sociopaths. Cannot people remember how cruel children in that age group can be? I sure the hell can. Here is a link to a 10 second youtube with an attempt at an apology from one of those children. Take a look at the responses he gets. This is at least and perhaps more chilling than watching those children torment poor Karen Klein.

That being said, I certainly hope these children are punished severely and that they learn a lesson.

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