My my my, a hot headed Latino man, what a shocker.

Three Crooked Squirrels: d) brush up on your homophones.

STOP THE BULLYING OF HOMOPHONES!

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: Three Crooked Squirrels: d) brush up on your homophones.

STOP THE BULLYING OF HOMOPHONES!

It gets batter.

Teach your kid how to break out of grapples, and drop the bully down in front of his friends with an arm lock or a sideways throw.

Jake Havechek: My my my, a hot headed Latino man, what a shocker.

I am always shocked when stereotypes are relevant.

This was on the local news the other day. The kid has been being bullied by the same kid for the better part of two years now and the parents claim they have reported it to the school nearly 20 different times and tried to talk to the kids parents and nothing has been done. The school district is now "investigating" the claims now that it's too late. In light of the facts I don't see what other choice the dad had here. It sounds like they exhausted all other reasonable options and this was the last resort.

PC LOAD LETTER: MaxxLarge: Principle: Idea, value or held belief.
Principal: Chief, primary or leader.

If you need a mnemonic, remember the line I always got from my High School Principal: "Principal ends in 'P-A-L' because I'm your pal."

Either way, stop f*cking it up.

But I suspect they can both be caught sayof

Wow! that was clever! I have never seen that meme before!


/Idiot.

What a joke! Get the school or police involved as a means to conflict resolution?? The school systems can't/won't do anything and the police can't/won't do anything till someone gets hurt. The guy could have executed his plan better, but you can't fault him actually doing something about the problem.

I don't have children, and perhaps what I'm about to say is another notch in the "well, probably for the best" column, but if some kid were bullying my kid I'd probably whip his ass and then go whip his parents' ass too.

Kick his @ss! This is great! Just ask Drillbit Taylor!

D) Make the bully's parents into chili and feed it to the bully, duh.

I'm not sure if schools are this bad at dealing with bullying, or we're just hearing about the worst ones.

What ever happened to good old fashioned conversations? Sit the bully down and explain to him that being bullied is really hurting your feelings and that it isn't very nice. Then shake hands and share a pudding cup.

medieval: I don't have children, and perhaps what I'm about to say is another notch in the "well, probably for the best" column, but if some kid were bullying my kid I'd probably whip his ass and then go whip his parents' ass too.

that's what I was gonna say, except for the I don't have children part/

probesport: D) Make the bully's parents into chili and feed it to the bully, duh.

For the win...

IgG4: Taking the bully down is the only way to really solve bullying.

Hey I just watched a Burn Notice rerun that essentially made the same case. Michael and company end up conning these low life drug runners into thinking this doctor running a free clinic in the hood used to be a Delta Force etc. assassin.

I guess the lesson here is find someone who hangs out with Bruce Campbell if you must get into misadventures to solve your boring IRL issues.

Ain't No Party Like A Tea Party: What ever happened to good old fashioned conversations? Sit the bully down and explain to him that being bullied is really hurting your feelings and that it isn't very nice. Then shake hands and share a pudding cup.

*punch*

Gimmah that puddin.

Seriously, what the hell is with all the bullying news lately? It is nothing new. I know alot of people who were bullied when they were younger, I bet they are okay now. It builds character, it is actually fun, and if you cant take it, grow up.

There's a song about this already

How is having your parent help you to beat up the bully going to do anything for your reputation? Wouldn't that result in "you have to get your parents to beat up kids because you caaaa-aaan't" taunts?

Holey Moely, is he in trouble now.

iollow: I'm not sure if schools are this bad at dealing with bullying, or we're just hearing about the worst ones.

the school's way of dealing with bullies usually makes it worse. Ratting out a bully, having his parents and a principal chew him out makes that POS even more bitter and angry at the world

Anastacya: How is having your parent help you to beat up the bully going to do anything for your reputation? Wouldn't that result in "you have to get your parents to beat up kids because you caaaa-aaan't" taunts?

"so?, should I call my dad to come kick your ass too?"

poe_zlaw: Seriously, what the hell is with all the bullying news lately? It is nothing new. I know alot of people who were bullied when they were younger, I bet they are okay now. It builds character, it is actually fun, and if you cant take it, grow up.

Thanks to your handle, I can't tell if this is serious or not. So I'll just mention the many people who have murdered, committed suicide, or suffer from physical and/or psychological issues from bullying.

Solving violence with violence only leads to more violence.

Jake Havechek: My my my, a hot headed Latino man, what a shocker.

I bet he isn't fleuent in one singel latin based language.
Not french, not spanish, not portuguese.

As others have pointed out, the only way to deal with bullies is to kick the crap out of them. If they retaliate by getting their friends, then you hunt them down when they are alone and beat the piss out of them. If you don't have friends of your own, you bring your buddy Brass Knuckles or Louisville Slugger. You may get your ass kicked a few times, but the escalation will usually cause it to stop, either because they get tired of getting their asses kicked themselves, or because the school or authorities start to take notice. It is a hell of a lot better than letting that BS linger for months (or even years).

My wife and I have decided that any future rug-rats we have will be enrolled into martial arts when they're young. Mostly to help ensure that they stay fit rug-rats, but also so that they can get social skills (bullies tend to focus on weird kids), can get some confidence (bullies tend to focus on weak kids), and can learn to kick some heads (bullies tend to back down when their prey fights back). Yeah, they probably won't learn proper form or technique till they're older, but every bit helps.

I see the 'snowflake' meme hasn't worn off yet....pfffffff....tttt

either way, bullying IS a serious issue. The only way I could deal with bullies in school that actually worked WAS to turn around and give 'em a fist in the face. They feed on fear, even if they can whip up on ya you've got to let them know you're not afraid of them.

not saying the dad was right though.

/you've got to be more subtle, kick his azz when there aren't other people around.

MaxxLarge: Principle: Idea, value or held belief.
Principal: Chief, primary or leader.

If you need a mnemonic, remember the line I always got from my High School Principal: "Principal ends in 'P-A-L' because I'm your pal."

Either way, stop f*cking it up.

Principle can also refer to the primary source of something. Perhaps subby was saying they should speak directly to the primary source of the abuse?

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Either 2a or 2b.... your choice.

Yeah, get some!

Teach your kid how to stomp the knee and on the way down, grab the back of the head and drive the knee into bullys nose. End of issue! Violence solves many things if diplomacy fails.

Works for me.

This not a bull shirt story. When I was in 6th grade, my mom used to take me to the flea market to buy butterfly knives and switchblades from the Vietnamese merchants in Austin-- (God that was a bad ass flea market)-- I used to get bullied by these two brothers and one day I had one of my butterfly knives with me walking home from school and these two assholes started picking on me acting lke they were going to hit me-- knocked my books out of my hands, etc-- I pulled out my butterfly knife and acted lke I was going to stab them in self defense. They ran home, told their mom, she got in her car, they found me while I was still on my way home, she got out and started acting like she was going to do something- yelling at me and shiat while her oldest son was acting like he was going to hit me, I pulled the knife on the both of them and told her I was telling my parents for them threatening me. She called the cops, the cops came, I told them the story and the cops told me I did the right thing. They even let me keep my knife

Funniest part of the story is-- I became acquaintances with the dude while I was in college-- we were at a party one night and he was real drunk and started talking about it-- he got all butt-hurt and pulled a knife on me. One of my best friends hit him from behind when he was acting like he was going to stab me-- he went down, was out cold, the cops came along with an ambulance and he went to the hospital in cuffs for pulling the knife.

Option C is a good option if the bully is smaller than you and preferably white.

Dinjiin: As others have pointed out, the only way to deal with bullies is to kick the crap out of them. If they retaliate by getting their friends, then you hunt them down when they are alone and beat the piss out of them. If you don't have friends of your own, you bring your buddy Brass Knuckles or Louisville Slugger. You may get your ass kicked a few times, but the escalation will usually cause it to stop, either because they get tired of getting their asses kicked themselves, or because the school or authorities start to take notice. It is a hell of a lot better than letting that BS linger for months (or even years).

My wife and I have decided that any future rug-rats we have will be enrolled into martial arts when they're young. Mostly to help ensure that they stay fit rug-rats, but also so that they can get social skills (bullies tend to focus on weird kids), can get some confidence (bullies tend to focus on weak kids), and can learn to kick some heads (bullies tend to back down when their prey fights back). Yeah, they probably won't learn proper form or technique till they're older, but every bit helps.

Have you always planned to raise your children to be bullies?

Understood. Bullies teach one of life's lessons; life is unfair.

Dinjiin: As others have pointed out, the only way to deal with bullies is to kick the crap out of them. If they retaliate by getting their friends, then you hunt them down when they are alone and beat the piss out of them. If you don't have friends of your own, you bring your buddy Brass Knuckles or Louisville Slugger. You may get your ass kicked a few times, but the escalation will usually cause it to stop, either because they get tired of getting their asses kicked themselves, or because the school or authorities start to take notice. It is a hell of a lot better than letting that BS linger for months (or even years).

They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue.