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Originally Posted by NEWB
Perhaps these kids felt powerless to stand up to him alone. Perhaps that is why there is safety in numbers. Most people when confronting a bully lack the courage to stand up to the bully alone. Some may feel more empowered to stand up in numbers yes, even then most people are scared to get involved.
Never underestimate what a bully is capable of doing. Bullies win as people empower them to win. Bullies will keep pushing and pushing and taking it further as the power is enabled to them and the power is stripped from the individual. You stand up and take action, the bully will lose more than what he or she bargained for.
I do agree this was a retaliation. I do agree this was a thought out plan. I am curious to find out what the outcome is. I doubt that I am incorrect with my assessment of the situation. I am very accurate about most assessments.  I will admit I am wrong from time to time.
Then again this concept may be too difficult for some people to grasp. |
True but most bullies need an audience or group to act.
Very few are independat actors.
My comments as to his activities are drawn from statements made by the accused and by a former friend.
He would seem to be a run of the mill bully prone to heckling and generally being miserable towards others.
Certainly not a sympathetic character but then again neither are the others now.
There is also some speculation by the courts that the plan was to feign friendship... lure him into the shed using the girl for bait where they could set upon him...beat and then rob him.
I remember bullies... in fact we had one in my highschool that was classic...he ended up in a movie of the week....no kidding.
He was convicted of firebombing Pakistani homes and bussiness in the greater Vancouver area a couple years after we graduated.
The thing is I recall that dealing with them always seemed to be done publically and that it didn't take much more than for someone to whip around and feed them an arm to convince them to move on.
I would like to know the full story as well.
I suspect that when and if the truth is know we will find out that it isn't so much a case of a group of victims taking on super bully as it is one loser underestimating the capability of another to... recruit still more into a revenge plan that took on a life of its own and rapidly got out of hand.
I guess we'll have to see what comes out in the wash but right now...I'm betting that the works of them were social misfits.
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