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Bullied bus monitor receives $700k check

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Evelyn Meiyi
Corvidae Trading and Holding
#1 - 2012-09-12 02:46:17 UTC
http://bing.search.sympatico.ca/?q=Bus%20monitor&mkt=en-ca&setLang=en-CA

More precisely, the check was made out for $730,000.

Karen Kline was taunted and bullied by students on an upstate New York schoolbus -- whereupon a Canadian who saw the uploaded video started calling on fundraisers to give her a better day.

The plan succeeded beyond anything he expected.

Thousands of donors in 81 countries chipped in, donating over $500,000 in the first two days, and Ms. Kline is now retired and planning a cruise later this year. The students involved in the taunting have been suspended, given 50 hours of community service, suspended from school for a year, and are no longer allowed regular bus transport.

Every so often, justice does take her blindfold off.
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2012-09-12 03:05:27 UTC
Bus driver should have just driven off a cliff.... that would've shown them

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Paul Oliver
Doomheim
#3 - 2012-09-12 03:05:41 UTC  |  Edited by: Paul Oliver
I remember constantly having to go through stuff like that growing up, and as a result I still have issues with social interaction to this day. People don't realize what kind of longterm effects bullying has on a person, or maybe they do and they just don't care because people are like that. Back then I did what all the authority figures told me to do and just sat and took it like she did, but not a day goes by I don't regret not going to school one day with some brass knuckles and cleaning house. I hope she enjoys her vacation, she earned it.
Its good to be [Gallente](http://dl.eve-files.com/media/1209/QEQlJ.jpg).
ISD Dorrim Barstorlode
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#4 - 2012-09-14 12:30:45 UTC
Keep it constructive please. I've cleaned up the thread of off topic posts. Thank you.

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MinefieldS
1 Sick Duck Standss on something
#5 - 2012-09-14 16:59:12 UTC
ISD Dorrim Barstorlode wrote:
Keep it constructive please. I've cleaned up the thread of off topic posts. Thank you.

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Kattshiro
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#6 - 2012-09-14 17:28:57 UTC
Why why do we simply not beat these children more? Is creating **** heads universal or more prevalent in the US?
Lady Spank
Get Out Nasty Face
#7 - 2012-09-14 21:48:22 UTC
Americans like to protect their right to be assholes.

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Cyprus Black
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#8 - 2012-09-14 22:39:43 UTC
Well gee, where can I sign up to receive money from hundreds of people around the world?
I can produce a sad youtube video about my life if it helps.

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Paul Oliver
Doomheim
#9 - 2012-09-15 02:16:20 UTC  |  Edited by: Paul Oliver
Kattshiro wrote:
Why why do we simply not beat these children more? Is creating **** heads universal or more prevalent in the US?
Lady Spank wrote:
Americans like to protect their right to be assholes.
Actually this time it's the Canadian assholes that are to blame.
Its good to be [Gallente](http://dl.eve-files.com/media/1209/QEQlJ.jpg).
SpaceSquirrels
#10 - 2012-09-15 02:51:07 UTC
What! Canadians are so nice they graffiti have a nice day.
Evelyn Meiyi
Corvidae Trading and Holding
#11 - 2012-09-15 03:19:21 UTC
SpaceSquirrels wrote:
What! Canadians are so nice they graffiti have a nice day.


\We're so nice we apologize for things that haven't happened yet.

'Look out! That tree is about to fall!' 'Oh, I'm sorry about that....'

Moreover, we're one of the few cultures in the world that have three hundred different ways to apologize -- without ever actually using the words 'I'm sorry'.
kerradeph
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#12 - 2012-09-15 08:49:56 UTC
Evelyn Meiyi wrote:


Moreover, we're one of the few cultures in the world that have three hundred different ways to apologize -- without ever actually using the words 'I'm sorry'.

I can only think of a few. are you counting all the different languages we have or something?
AlleyKat
The Unwanted.
#13 - 2012-09-15 09:10:09 UTC
kerradeph wrote:
Evelyn Meiyi wrote:


Moreover, we're one of the few cultures in the world that have three hundred different ways to apologize -- without ever actually using the words 'I'm sorry'.

I can only think of a few. are you counting all the different languages we have or something?


It's a bigger problem than you think, because when someone does actually use the words "I'm sorry"; we're so shocked we don't believe them.

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