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The bullies win again[W710; 739]

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im not really sure if this is the proper place for this, but since it's the topic of bullying, i guess it's ok to place it here.

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This is a very tragic story of a girl that commited suicide because of bullying. Yes, she made some big mistakes, but these mistakes do not make it ok to bully.

This is the video that she post prior to killing herself. very sad.

This needs to stop!

[video=youtube;vOHXGNx-E7E]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vOHXGNx-E7E[/video]

Amanda Todd: Bullied Canadian Teen Commits Suicide After Prolonged Battle Online And In School


in 3...2...1.... here comes the pro-bully posts
 
I'm sorry but only one person is responsible for this suicide.
 
What is really sad is that down here the kids are bullied by their teachers and nothing is done. My son experienced many cases of this when he was in 8,9,10th grade and I complained to the principal NOTHING, the County school system Nothing, the superintendant of schools (nothing).
The year before we got here a child walked into his middle school class, pulled out a gun and blew his brains out in front of everyone. Did the system change NO.
They do not have anyone person in middle or high schools here that the kids can go and just talk to and only 1 psych for every 9 upper level schools.

Alot of talk is done here and elsewhere but from what I see little is being done.

I am perfectly aware that bullying has been around since forever but there are effective ways to lessen it. Fortunately when we lived in SW Michigan the school system there had its act together and thus the level was kept to a minimum.

Very sad.
 
I'm sorry but only one person is responsible for this suicide.

I'm sorry, but you're as cold-hearted a poster as I've ever seen on this board. I'm assuming you didn't take the 8:55 it took to watch the video.

This young girl was failed by her parents. Big-BIG-time. She's dead. She shouldn't be. She should be having fun . . . going to parties . . . having sleepovers with her girlfriends. Fixing her nails. Doing her hair. Instead she's dead.

Have a nice day.

Edit: I just posted this on my Facebook site. Maybe it'll save a life. PARENTS!!! Wake the **** up!!!
 
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I don't want to sound like a dick... but if you cannot "survive" being bullied... how the frick will you survive the real world?
 
I don't want to sound like a dick... but if you cannot "survive" being bullied... how the frick will you survive the real world?

Well, I think this little girl proved she couldn't. And you sound like a dick. ;)
 
This wasn't just bullying, this was criminal stalking and blackmail of a child. I hope they caught the guy behind the incident, did they?
 
I don't want to sound like a dick... but if you cannot "survive" being bullied... how the frick will you survive the real world?

She's a kid. Had she lived to adulthood she likely would have developed the tools to cope with the real world just like the rest of us. Had she lived.
 
This wasn't just bullying, this was criminal stalking and blackmail of a child. I hope they caught the guy behind the incident, did they?

She flashed a random stranger on webcam when she was in 7th grade. I'm sorry but that is not appropriate children behavior.

I do agree that whoever did this deserves, fully, to be sent to prison for as long as possible and get regularly raped in there by big black men for what he did. If he did ask for a private show from her, he should be charged for blackmail and even attempt at pedophilia (hence, the rape in prison).

The only good that can come out of this for the rest of the world is to learn to be more responsible with what they put on the internet... and what people expose of themselves on the internet (home address, profile pictures, sexual orientation, political stance, religious stance, etc on facebook for instance)
 
Right on cue...



Same guy who just got done saying he's not hateful because he's a Con. Yep....

Love the hateful and incredibly stupid responses. Amazingly, liberals hate bullies unless they're their bullies. How's Dan Savage doing, guys, and VP Joe Biden?

I spent a lot of years investigating suicides and a surprising factor is how often and who the people committing suicide blame. Their wives, their husbands, their parents, their friends, their enemies, their children have all been blamed. I remember one where the poor, poor man called his wife and children to come watch and see "what they made him do." He could have just left a videotape.

They made me commit suicide". No, they didn't. I talked with a man who murdered his mother, grandmother, and a woman who was visiting. They made him do it, too. Wasn't his responsibility. Oops, that nasty "R" word.

So, go ahead and enjoy your hatred. I understand it's what sustains you. Find someone to blame. That helps sustain you to. See, I am capable of pity. I'm just not an enabler.
 
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She's a kid. Had she lived to adulthood she likely would have developed the tools to cope with the real world just like the rest of us. Had she lived.

Hence, the problem. she gave up.

I cannot take the side of people who commit suicide. I do not take the side of people who push people to consider such a drastic decision either.
 
She flashed a random stranger on webcam when she was in 7th grade. I'm sorry but that is not appropriate children behavior.

I do agree that whoever did this deserves, fully, to be sent to prison for as long as possible and get regularly raped in there by big black men for what he did. If he did ask for a private show from her, he should be charged for blackmail and even attempt at pedophilia (hence, the rape in prison).

The only good that can come out of this for the rest of the world is to learn to be more responsible with what they put on the internet... and what people expose of themselves on the internet (home address, profile pictures, sexual orientation, political stance, religious stance, etc on facebook for instance)

The other good is that it should warn every single parent that internet usage by kids should be monitored. IOW, no computers in the bedroom. And an every-once-in-a-while look at their Facebook page. That's probably one of the most important things a family can do to protect their children.

Where on earth were the parents? She lived with her single dad for a time and then tried to escape by going to mom's. Neither parent kept her off the internet. Or, apparently, gave a ****.
 
Bullies are nothing but cowards. What does it take to sit behind a keyboard and torment someone, it takes much less to stand behind a crowd of people and subject another to a living hell. I do not believe I have ever been bullied, per se. What I have done and continue to do is tell the bully to come to me a try out there spineless crap on someone who will "hit" back. Been like that my whole life. I can tell you just about every time the bully was at some point in their own life a victim of another's bullying. It gets better, especially in an internet format, when there is ganging up in a bulling session. There is nothing to be proud of when causing another such harm, there is nothing to be gained it just tears at the fabric of what we are as a society. Those that applaud such actions are as spineless as the one committing the acts.

Clearly this girl had done whatever she could do within her own survival skills. We are aware of this because she committed suicide. Had she not done so we may have never heard of her, this is one issue that I am tireless in combating.
 
I'm sorry but only one person is responsible for this suicide.

That may be true,but there seems to be a number of peoples who's deeds and words influenced her to the point of deciding to take her own life.
As a parent my sympathy and condolences goes out to her family.

I can't speak for anyone but myself,but if that was my child,I would be probably be driving myself crazy wondering what I could have done to prevent that from happening.
I would be extremely pissed at the people who drove her to making the decision of taking her own her own life.
Maybe that doesn't meet with your approval,but thats just the type of guy I am.
What I wouldn't do is lay the entire blame on my child.
But that's probably just me.Maybe you feel otherwise.
 
The bullies win again

I do agree that whoever did this deserves, fully, to be sent to prison for as long as possible and get regularly raped in there by big black men for what he did. If he did ask for a private show from her, he should be charged for blackmail and even attempt at pedophilia (hence, the rape in prison).

Wouldn't want him getting raped by big white dudes though, that would be a reward.
 
She flashed a random stranger on webcam when she was in 7th grade. I'm sorry but that is not appropriate children behavior.

I do agree that whoever did this deserves, fully, to be sent to prison for as long as possible and get regularly raped in there by big black men for what he did. If he did ask for a private show from her, he should be charged for blackmail and even attempt at pedophilia (hence, the rape in prison).

The only good that can come out of this for the rest of the world is to learn to be more responsible with what they put on the internet... and what people expose of themselves on the internet (home address, profile pictures, sexual orientation, political stance, religious stance, etc on facebook for instance)

No, it wasn't appropriate for her to do what she did. In the end, she is responsible for her own actions, BUT finding a depressed person and saying "You should kill yourself" is like pouring gasoline on a fire. Maybe the original fire isn't your fault, but you can't just hold up your hands and say "It's not my fault" when it starts burning out of control.
 
I'm sorry but only one person is responsible for this suicide.

Yes, because one morning this girl got up and - independent of any actions by anybody else - she decided to kill herself. Please don't go into the mental health profession.
 
Why the **** did her parents allow her to stay on Facebook? Why did she choose to stay on Facebook? Why did nobody document those posts and report them to the police?

A lot of people failed here.

Bullying is horrid, disgusting, lowbrow behavior. But this girl would still be alive DESPITE the bullying if her damned parents had actually made a serious effort to pull her away from the bullying.
 
This is why public schools are garbage, and private schools are a LOT better.

What is really sad is that down here the kids are bullied by their teachers and nothing is done. My son experienced many cases of this when he was in 8,9,10th grade and I complained to the principal NOTHING, the County school system Nothing, the superintendant of schools (nothing).
The year before we got here a child walked into his middle school class, pulled out a gun and blew his brains out in front of everyone. Did the system change NO.
They do not have anyone person in middle or high schools here that the kids can go and just talk to and only 1 psych for every 9 upper level schools.

Alot of talk is done here and elsewhere but from what I see little is being done.

I am perfectly aware that bullying has been around since forever but there are effective ways to lessen it. Fortunately when we lived in SW Michigan the school system there had its act together and thus the level was kept to a minimum.

Very sad.
 
I don't want to sound like a dick... but if you cannot "survive" being bullied... how the frick will you survive the real world?


Well, I think this little girl proved she couldn't. And you sound like a dick. ;)
I'm going to have to agree a with MaggieD on this one on both points.

I sincerely hope,Rainman05,you are not the type of person who delights in the misery and self destruction of others.
What that poor troubled girl needed was help and understanding during life,not condemnation after death.
 
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