Kid Becomes "Little Zangief" in Response to Bullying

[Smokej]

I don't get what's the fuss about this video is (besides being popular with the internet for obvious reasons) Yes there was physical contact involved, which might have led to injury, but there is a chance of injury in a soccer match for gym class as well. I mean the big kid ended the conflict quickly and walked away without further harm to its former bully.

I don't know about the situation in AUS but I find the new trend here of "Abziehvideos" (abziehen is slang for robbery) alot more worrying. These are videos where people (even teachers, no joke!) are chased, beaten up and robbed often filmed while in school. And i'm still waiting for all the outcries about the offenders forced to apologise there (let alone from legally punished)...

You can see such a video at the beginning of this clip (which is of domestic political nature though)

 

[Wilko316]

It's awesome that the mother of the bully wants her son to apologise ...
even more awesome that that little twat got what was coming to him, FUCK YEAH CASEY!

 

[SirFuzzi]

I'd just like to direct attention to the fact that Casey not only ended the fight quickly and concisely-- one good coup de grace seems to have sated him-- but he left it where it was. Even with other kids taunting him, and it being filmed, and the other kid getting up in his face, he just walked away after one attack. Plenty of other bullying situations have involved someone being floored and then hammered away at, but not this time.

Risk notwithstanding, I give a firm kudos to Casey for doing what needed to be done; no more, no less.

 

[Con Carne]

That was the best thing EVER!!! I gotta give mad props to Casey. As for the other kid, he seems a lot like the guys at the bar I work at. Small and wanting to start shit against people who can clearly take him out with a piledriver lol. Good times.

 

[eels05]

Makes me wonder about the mother of the bully.
Was it a case of her being completley ignorant of what an arrogant little prick her son was becoming,or as I suspect she was aware and did nothing to regulate her sons behavour.

Equally the parents of the big kid.Where are their heads at?Teach your son how to channel his anger/frustration and not let it fester to dangerous levels.

Fuck this,parenting skills in general are at an all time low.

 

[Metal Brother]

I think it says a lot for (and about) Casey that he didn't go after the bully after he'd taken him down. It was obvious that the bully was shaken and in a position where he was unable to defend himself, but instead of giving him a swift kick in the gut (or in the face) as he deserved, Casey just walked away. Good on him.

 

[Iwana Humpalot]

I lol'd. "The bully" got nothing on the bullies that live close to me. This guy would be bullied in my school. CMON look at that kid, he's so tiny and wears jeans-shorts(?) and cap that looks retarted.

But yeah, good job Little Zangief.

 

[Oliver Pink]

I think it says a lot for (and about) Casey that he didn't go after the bully after he'd taken him down. It was obvious that the bully was shaken and in a position where he was unable to defend himself, but instead of giving him a swift kick in the gut (or in the face) as he deserved, Casey just walked away. Good on him.

Of course he did - the mighty God need not demonstrate his powers more than once. His opponent was smoten already...

In all seriousness - cudos to Casey for being the bigger man - literally AND figuratively.

 

[Royas]

I'm so glad that as a modern society we celebrate acts of violence rather than being, you know, civilized.

I really don't get why this has garnered so much attention though. Not the first time something like this has happened.

Fact is, that "modern" society does not equate to a "peaceful" one. As someone who had been bullied before, the last thing I ever wanted to do was get in a fight, but you know what? I ended up getting into them.

Why? Because the school officials refused to do anything about it. It was the same way from Elementary through High School, if it didn't bother or affect them, they weren't going to do anything about it. I will almost 100% guarantee you that Casey had gone to the teachers, the principals, the counselors, and they did nothing.

And to be blunt, when it comes to little pricks, the only way to get anything through to them is through a piledriver to the ground.

The excuse "the officials do nothing" is not a valid one and does not excuse violence in anyway. I was bullied a lot in school to, and I never resorted to physical violence. If you attack someone who bullies you, unless it really is in self-defense, you aren't much better than them. You need to be mature enough to understand this. Now I do understand that is very hard to resist the urge to be violent, especially when you are the victim. As a result I am not going to berate this kid as he was under a lot of stress. However, I will not praise his violent behavior and pretend he did the right thing and I will berate people who say he did.

Think about it; when you support this kind of behavior, you are essentially saying violence is okay so long as you believe you are in the right. As a society we should be moving away from that mentality.

I would agree with you on one condition. If Casey had been walking down the hall, seen the kid who had been bullying him and decided it was time to pile drive him through the floor. But he didn't, he was attacked and defended himself. Was his action the best "civilized" solution for the situation? No. But it sure beats curling into a ball on the ground and simply taking it or running away and effectively inviting himself to be bullied even more.

Thing is no attempt was made to walk away or do anything of the sort. If he had moved and the kid pursued him I would agree. But he didn't and went straight to fighting instead. Again I don't blame the kid for this because it is very hard to resist such urges, however I really don't like that his violent behavior is being praised.

Why in the hell should he have had to walk away? He wasn't the aggressor here, the little shit poking him in the face was. I personally think Casey showed tremendous restraint. First of all, he didn't immediately strike back when punched, even though he morally and ethically could have. He tried to get the kid to stop, the kid wouldn't. What was he supposed to do then? Second, he didn't stomp the kid a couple of times while he was down, which is what I would have done. He forced the scumsucking coward to stop attacking him, then walked away. Amazing restraint, really.

If he had seriously hurt the kid, that would have sucked, but only because he might have gotten disciplined more strongly. The bully needed to learn a lesson, mess with a bull, get the horns. And pain is instructive.

I unreservedly support and praise Casey for his actions.

On an off topic note, please get rid of that never to be sufficiently damned captcha bullshit when I post every time. I had to refresh it 3 times to get words I could read. At least find a service that presents readable letters, or that uses actual words.

 

[Metal Brother]

I think it says a lot for (and about) Casey that he didn't go after the bully after he'd taken him down. It was obvious that the bully was shaken and in a position where he was unable to defend himself, but instead of giving him a swift kick in the gut (or in the face) as he deserved, Casey just walked away. Good on him.

Of course he did - the mighty God need not demonstrate his powers more than once. His opponent was smoten already...

In all seriousness - cudos to Casey for being the bigger man - literally AND figuratively.

I could not agree more. It was so obvious from watching the video that he just wanted to get away and to be left alone - not to hurt anyone. He's just been pushed into a corner (literally and figuratively again) and there wasn't a non-violent escape.

Now let's hope that he can get on with his life and be a normal kid again...

 

[norwegian-guy]

All suport to Casey. It's not even like he resorted to vilonce right away. By the video it looks like he turned the other cheek TWICE. As the saying goes:

"When struck, turn the other cheek, when struck again there is no more cheeks to present. If the punk that keeps hitting you continues, that ***** deserves an asswoopin'!"

 

[Royas]

Side note: anyone else think it's weird that this just happened to be filmed?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_slapping

Looks like whoever filmed it, though, decided to humiliate the little shit by spreading the video despite things not going as previously planned.

And to those who say that Casey was out of order:

I would argue that in attacking Casey, Ritchard decided that his victim's human rights meant nothing to him. Hence, Ritchard's intentional and premeditated act of violence removed his protection by those same rights, and he deserved everything he got.

I think I recognize a Sword of Truth fan here. That is very close to a verbatum quote from "Naked Empire." I definitely agree that casey had the right to defend himself, but I think he should have punched the kid in the face. It's a proportional response thing. If that kid had landed on his head or his neck, he probably would have broken his neck and died. Body slamming a person onto concrete can break some serious bones, and was a little out of line. That's my opinion. I would have kicked him in the nuts, then the face.

I'd think it might have been that Casey may not actually know how to fight. For a kid his size, grappling would be a much more instinctive response to an attack than punching. That body slam was a perfectly reasonable response. Always fear the untrained fighter, they actually don't know how to moderate their responses.

And if the kid had gotten seriously hurt or killed? Well, that's nature's way of dealing with animals too dumb to know not to attack something twice their size. It would have been a shame, but only because Casey would have likely been punished more harshly.

 

[Gindil]

The girl did the right thing [http://www.news.com.au/national/peter-garrett-praises-girl-who-stood-up-to-bullies-in-infamous-casey-the-punisher-video/story-e6frfkvr-1226023989280]

 

[icame]

That kid deserves a damn medal. He showed great amounts of restraint, he didn't do anything until the kid wouldn't stop and at that point he defended himself. He should get a character skin in the next edition of street fighter...

GO CASEY! Also, why was he suspended? He was defending himself from physical assault. Anon is getting into my good books despite them sometimes being dicks (Paypal, Mastercard etc), but killing the schools website in support of this kid is awesome.

 

[supermariner]

Wait? his mother doesn't want a video of her son picking on a MUCH larger kid posted everywhere so the BULLIED kid should apologize?

i think you misread it sir
in the source she asked for her own son to apolgise to the bullied 'zangeif kid'