GOOD FOR HIM!!!
But I'm afraid that along with all the good NEWS and publicity, there might be some bad news as well.
http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/f ... index.html
OK, let's see if I understand this correctly.Topic:
Viral Video
Tuesday, Mar 15, 2011 11:20 ET
The Internet's new anti-bullying hero
In the latest viral video, a teen turns the table on an
attacker -- but is his revenge really that sweet?
By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Casey Heynes had had enough. In a viral video that has been circulating this week, the overweight 16-year-old Australian student is confronted by a much smaller boy, three years younger than him, who taunts him as the bully's buddies gleefully record the action. The audio is muffled, but the smaller boy appears to ask, "Have you been talking shit? Huh? Have you been talking shit?" to which Casey, alone and backed up against a wall, replies, "I haven't been talking shit." But the bully hasn't come for meaningful conversation. He grabs Casey by the collar and punches him in the face. He continues to goad him, dancing around with amateurish boxer moves and striking him, while his friends say, "We're laughing at you ... This is getting sad, bro ... Keep recording!" Casey defensively tries to fend off the blows, until he finally picks up the kid and slams him into the ground. The bully staggers back to his mates. And though another boys angrily steps in to confront Casey, he just glares and walks off down a corridor, while a girl who's witnessed the whole thing tells the other kid, "I think you need to back off." Time elapsed from initial confrontation to the skinny kid limping away in defeat -- 41 seconds. That's how long it took for Casey Heynes to go from picked-on kid to viral hero.
The video surfaced Monday, with the explanation that "This 16 year old kid has been tormented every single day of his short high school life - and today he snapped! He was suspended and may be looking at criminal charges, all because this little runt thought he could make an example of Casey in front of his TUFF buddies!!" and exploded across the Net faster than YouTube could keep taking it down.
Both Heynes and his antagonist are currently on an enforced break from Chifley College Dunheved's Campus, a school that describes itself as a "a safe, supportive and productive learning environment to promote individual achievement and self-responsibility." A spokesperson for the school told the Telegraph it "does not tolerate any violence and deals with all cases according to its community-agreed discipline code. Both students in a fight at the school shown on the Internet have been suspended ... the only injury sustained was a grazed knee.'' That, and what I imagine must be the world's biggest case of wounded pride.
Heynes, meanwhile, has become an overnight folk hero of the modern era of bullying -- an age in which every schoolyard act of cruelty is exacerbated by the tormentor's ability to document and disseminate it. Whether it's gang raping a little girl or a pack of schoolyard thugs who want to make sure they can relive their sadistic behavior again and again, viciousness is no longer a private act. So when Casey turned the tables, it seemed like an ass-kicking long in the making. The moment that video appeared, the scrawny jerk became more than the focus of Heynes' pent-up, exasperated rage. He took a slam into the concrete for every survivor who's been on the business end of a bully's fists or teasing, for the far too many kids who couldn't survive it.
No wonder Heynes has already been dubbed "Casey the Punisher" in a Facebook fan page, chockablock with Chuck Norris references, that's climbing toward 10,000 members. In his "Off the Bench" column Monday, Rick Chandler introduced the clip of "the little twerp" getting slammed with the simple directive to "Enjoy." And among the cheers for Casey, Reddit has also become a truly moving repository of similar stories of standing up to bullies and exercising self-defense.
As absolutely essential as it is to raise kids with empathy and sensitivity, to have zero tolerance in our schools or our homes for bullying, and to give kids the tools for effective conflict resolution, the Heynes video is a powerful and necessary reminder to every little Biff Tannen out there that if you're dishing it out, eventually, you're going to take it. But life, especially adolescence, doesn't give satisfying, "Karate Kid"-style happy endings. The "little twerp" has had his name and whereabouts revealed multiple times on Facebook and elsewhere. And however despicable his actions toward Heynes may have been, there's zero satisfaction in considering that a 13-year-old is now finding himself the target of harassment, threats and potentially worse. Frankly, if you truly enjoy watching a scrawny 13-year-old boy getting thrown on the pavement like a rag doll, that 13-year-old bully isn't the only cruel one. And there's no satisfaction whatsoever in wondering what kind of retribution potentially awaits Casey Heynes in the schoolyard. That other kid in the video, the one the girl told to back off? At the end of the clip, he's walking around her right down the same corridor, hot on Casey's heels.
So, it appears that our hero, Casey The Punisher, might be facing possible criminal charges, just because he defended himself from a bully!He was suspended and may be looking at criminal charges, all because this little runt thought he could make an example of Casey in front of his TUFF buddies!!
Am I to understand, that some chicken-shit prosecutor may want to file criminal charges against Casey Heynes, and that he may have to stand before some chicken-shit judge?
Uh huh! The courts and the judges are too fucking chicken-shit to prosecute some football player after he's rapes some young lady, but these contemptible low-life scum-bag chicken-shits in the legal system are Oh so brave when it comes to wanting to prosecute a 16 year old kid who defends himself from a bully!
Yeah! Now I get it! We're really not suppose to defend ourselves against bullies! No, you're just suppose to stand there while some punk uses your head for a punching bag, and God forbid that you should dare to defend yourself!!!
Well, that's not at all surprising.
I remember back when I was 12 years old, in the 6th grade, back in the year when President Kennedy, a rather prominent member of an ancient world wide baby-fucking cult, got assassinated. I wish he had gotten his shit-for-brains blown out BEFORE he had publicly made the comment that Americans were out of shape and needed to go on 50 mile hikes! But that's another story!
It was during recess after our lunch break. We were outside for about 45 minutes. I was just minding my own business, when a larger kid started harassing me. Then he kicked me in the testicles and I was all doubled over in pain. When the pain finally subsided, I picked myself up, and I lunged forward toward my assailant, knocking him backward on the ground, and I was on top of him pounding his face in with my fists.
Then this one teacher, who was the field monitor that week, a rather large women well over 350 pounds (and smelled really bad) came and pulled me off of this guy, and she wrapped her great big arm around my neck applying a choke hold, and she dragged me across the field. I blacked out! My lights went out, and when my lights came back on again, I found myself sitting in the principal's office, wondering how I got there!
I was suspended and sent home for a couple of days, and my testicles were throbbing where I had been kicked!
Well, the bully who kicked me in the nuts, he was NEVER held accountable for what he had done, not even after my mother called the school and complained. Nothing was ever done about that.
Of course, the bully never bother me ever again after I had pounded his face in with my fists. He left me alone after that. But I was punished while the bully went unpunished.
That's how it works!
It's as if God had intended for some of us to be used has human punching bags for jocks to practice on so they can improve their skills in sports.
This country, and our schools are run by drooling morons with single digit IQs who bow down and worship athletes.
HEY! YOU FUCKING PAGAN IDOLATERS!!!
LEAVE YOUR CHRISTIAN CHURCHES AT ONCE AND BOW DOWN AND WORSHIP HORSES, OR SOMETHING, BECAUSE THEY'RE MUCH FASTER AND STRONGER THAN HUMAN BEINGS, AND ARE PROBABLY MUCH SMARTER THAN YOU ARE!
YOU FUCKING MORONIC PIECES OF CHICKEN-SHIT!!!
I'm fat and sassy! I love to sing & dance & stomp my feet & really rock your world!
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