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What's wrong with this generation? "68 year old bullied by teenagers"

2,709 2,027 June 21, 2012 at 11:20 PM
Jesus Christ, what's wrong with kids these days?

Karen Klein a 65 year old bus monitor is mercilessly bullied and verbally harassed by a group of middle schoolers on their way home from Athena Middle School in Greece, New York.
In the disturbing video, the children can be heard yelling at Klein, calling her an "ugly fat ass" and telling the widow, "you don't have a family because they all killed themselves because they don't want to be near you."


Here's the video link [youtube.com]. And it broke my heart.


Support has been pouring in and indiegogo [indiegogo.com] has collected over $440,000 for her!


Spare the rod...Spoil the child. I'd like to slap these kids silly.MadMadMad
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wabashi
06-21-2012 at 11:42 PM.
06-21-2012 at 11:42 PM.
If I'm one of those teenagers, I would've marks caused by belt on my arms then sent to the woman's house to do chores for her but then we were thought since childhood at home and school to respect anyone older our age. Our manners is graded and included in our school report cards.
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dzap
06-22-2012 at 12:00 AM.
06-22-2012 at 12:00 AM.
This is why I don't want kids. I know my generation wasn't the best, but the following one, are complete little shits.

She can buy a freaking Audi R8 with all that money and run over all those little bastards, and I would just look the other way.

Heck..she could probably hire personal hitmen for every single one of them. Go to jail, pay the bail, and STILL have enough money to live an awesome life.
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06-22-2012 at 02:21 AM.
06-22-2012 at 02:21 AM.



Just sayin'. Wink2
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dzap
06-22-2012 at 02:38 AM.
06-22-2012 at 02:38 AM.
Quote from Maleficent :



Just sayin'. Wink2
Exactly. Compared to all the shit I could have done, I'm a small burden on my parents. Always have been. I was never the type to go crash my parents car while getting a DUI as a teen.

No, my parents were paranoid about me for some reason. They bought the most expensive insurance policy they could get ($1,000,000 coverage) because they thought I would screw something up (besides having nothing that would indicate I would do idiotic crap...).

5.5 years later after my first driving test before I was in my first car accident. Annnddd...wasn't my fault either. I was pulled over in my rental car 2 weeks later by a cop and let go with a warning.

So yeah my parents did good.

However, if I ever have children..straight to private school. I dealt with private school up until middle school/high school.

I will definitely send my children (if it ever happens) to private for high school, or I will go bankrupt trying. I will not put them through the hellhole that was my high school. Never.
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Ryu-bom
06-22-2012 at 02:53 AM.
06-22-2012 at 02:53 AM.
Words don't hurt

"sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me"

She 68 yrs old, she should be able to take it like a mature woman and not let it get to her...

But then again kids say the darnest things
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06-22-2012 at 02:56 AM.
06-22-2012 at 02:56 AM.
Quote from Ryu-bom :
Words don't hurt

"sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me"
I'm guessing you have pretty much had to build your entire life around those phrases.
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06-22-2012 at 02:59 AM.
06-22-2012 at 02:59 AM.
Quote from Iaaaiws :
I'm guessing you have pretty much had to build your entire life around those phrases.
seems like all the one who dissin' and being mean to others ( aka bullying ) tends to lean to the conservative right here...

Coincidence......wave
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06-22-2012 at 03:01 AM.
06-22-2012 at 03:01 AM.
Quote from Ryu-bom :
seems like all the one who dissin' and being mean to others ( aka bullying ) tends to lean to the conservative right here...

Coincidence......wave
Whoa, who knew Ryu was a conservative? Shocking
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06-22-2012 at 05:24 AM.
06-22-2012 at 05:24 AM.
There's another side to this story. A canadian man saw the story on Reddit and decided to raise money to send her on a vacation. His goal was to raise 5 grand through online donations, but since starting the donation site 2 days ago he's raised over 350 grand. When I checked last night I think the total was over 360k; I'm not sure what it is now.

Yes these kids are little shits, but for every dumb ass neglectful parent who refuses to teach their kids manners, there's someone out there who wants to do the right thing.

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Whoa, who knew Ryu was a conservative? Shocking
And all of the boys in here who fantasize about having sex with their future daughter tend to lean towards having the name Ryu.
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ikonoklast
06-22-2012 at 05:32 AM.
06-22-2012 at 05:32 AM.
Thread makes me want to listen to The Who.
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06-22-2012 at 05:50 AM.
06-22-2012 at 05:50 AM.
What is a bus monitor ?
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06-22-2012 at 06:22 AM.
06-22-2012 at 06:22 AM.
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What is a bus monitor ?
They make sure that the speed of data moving within your computer is as fast as advertised.
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06-22-2012 at 06:30 AM.
06-22-2012 at 06:30 AM.
Quote from w3kn :
They make sure that the speed of data moving within your computer is as fast as advertised.
but what about the backside.


Not even really knowing what these 'yellow buses' are since we never had them in any UK school system. I am simply taking the words at their semantic level. Arent they supposed to make sure the kids arent causing trouble and potentially distracting the bus driver.

Secondly isnt this a paid position ? Yes kids can be mean and heartless but she was being paid to keep them under control and obviously wasn't doing her job. If you cant take verbal insults would you really take a job on a school bus anyway. It would be like a vegan working at Mcdonalds and complaining about handling burgers.
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ikonoklast
06-22-2012 at 06:54 AM.
06-22-2012 at 06:54 AM.
Every generation thinks the younger generation is going downhill. Makes me giggle. Teehee
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