General Discussion

are experimenting themselves with inflammatory words and violent threats. They're running off at the laptop.

Then you have the 101st Chairborne who are anywhere from twenty-something on up - male or female - who live on disability ( not a thing wrong with disability payments unless you're trying to vote yourself out of yours and you need them to survive ) or mooch off family and who are so bored they spend all day trolling sites stirring up trouble. ( Again, living with family while you get yourself together is cool. Spending all day making violent, racist comments on internet forums is probably not cool.)

Then you have those who empathize with the bus monitor -maybe she reminded them of someone they love or of themselves being bullied - and they have just had a primal, human breakdown of compassion for the aggressors. It happens.

Maybe the best we can do is be like Karen. Let people vent, get it out, and they will be left to deal with their own words.