Bully Pays the Price When Victim Fights Back

[Whiskey_Lord]

Casey speaks out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzhFan3kk0E

Dammit ABC News, it was an inverted powerbomb, not a body slam. Get your rasslin' jargon right.

Casey looks pretty intense in that clip. I could see this kid walking down a steel ramp to the sound of a nu-metal theme and thousands of screaming fans. Actually, he sort of reminds me of this guy:


Link to video.

It's Casey Time!

 

[Hygro]

Casey speaks out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzhFan3kk0E

The news failed to show the part where Casey's hands are down while the younger kid has one hand on his throat and punches him in the face. That's the most important part of the story!


Also someone pointed out the obvious elsewhere: the bully being younger was probably put up to this by some older kids.

 

[Camikaze]

Casey speaks out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzhFan3kk0E

Oh God, ACA. I refuse to believe anything in the interview on principle.

 

[Askthepizzaguy]

I think Casey is taking this all pretty well. Having one of the lamest events of your life be your claim to fame isn't always welcome, on the one hand, and sometimes, the support can go to your head, on the other hand.

He's handling this like a champ from what I can see. Doesn't seem to be turning into a little jerk about it.

 

[azzaman333]

Oh God, ACA. I refuse to believe anything in the interview on principle.

Predictably, since ACA got an interview with Casey, Today Tonight had to get an interview with the other kid.

 

[Camikaze]

It's like Mercedes Corby and Jodi Power all over again.

 

[Brighteye]

It's more a study on different types of people: the type of person who thinks that fighting back is a good idea, vs the type of person who thinks fighting back is a bad idea. It basically opines that if you're the type of person that fights back, you're screwed either way...
tl;dr - be more like Mise.

The study, involving almost 400 student bullying victims aged 10-13 years from several Melbourne metropolitan schools, found that young people low in self-restraint (for example unable to manage behavioural responses in social situations) were an easy target for teasing due to their inclination to react ‘hot-headedly’ to provocation.

When I read this, I don't think it's about fighting back at all. It's about hot-headedness. It is very possible to fight back without having a tantrum. I know very well, having seen it, that losing your temper and flailing around makes bullies happy. Losing your temper and precisely and deliberately causing as much pain as you can whilst looking calm and otherwise acting normally scares people.

I can think of a number of occasions, and at least two people in my year at school, which demonstrate how hot-headedness helps you become a target for bullies. This is not what I have said is a solution.

Baiting an extreme reaction with something as simple as teasing is known on the internet as "Trolling." That will obviously encourage future teasing.

I question what their parameters for "bullying" were, and what they considered "fighting back" to be.

Quite! If you flail madly at a verbal taunt you've been trolled. If you break a nose after an attempt to break yours you've not been a good target at all.

 

[Yared]

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/father-turns-in-own-kids-for-bullying-20110318-1bzjd.html

And that's how you teach your kids a lesson!

 

[Kyriakos]

Not sure if anyone had yet posted the full report on Casey:


Link to video.

Rather interesting that this was discussed in many media, but ultimately nothing of note was heard. Perhaps Casey summed up in an apt way just how he thinks people should react to bullies, in saying that "highschool does not last forever".