God, I hate people.

Ooba Tooba: If you strike a person with disabilities, you should be paraded around town in a dunce cap, tarred and feathered, and made to perform community service until the age of 21.

Having disabilities doesn't mean can't earn yourself a pop in the mouth, like wheelchair guys. They should be held to the same standards as anyone. And they've got strong arms, too, so hittin' one should be y'know, okay if they earned it cause they can hit back too.

I would like to say your idea has merit for bullies. But you might want to read up on tarring and feathering. Tar is bloody hot and you can easily kill someone covering them with it. Kinda hard to get community service out of someone in the ICU.

Not all people in wheelchairs, mind you.



But these guys?

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These guys who play murderball.

Ooba Tooba: Would you yourself feel alright punching a guy in a wheelchair? Even if he was a complete dick, I still have a problem with this.

I'm big into fair play. I'd let him hit back. Also I would not lean into them or anything, but a dick's a dick. Also, I can't punch for shiat, so I wouldn't feel bad about hitting ANY athlete in any state of health that lets them still play full contact sports because they do worse to themselves shaving of a morning.

But I wouldn't go all Captain Falcon on someone with a wasting disease or something. "You don't kick a man when he's down." is a general rule of spirit. If you've never seen MMA, sometimes the guy whose technically "down" on the ground needs to be hit repeatedly and in indelicate places. But if someone's truly ill or injured, you protect them. If someone's fine but just can't walk, they are just one of the guys. Pop.

Palooka_Joe: doglover: Ooba Tooba: If you strike a person with disabilities, you should be paraded around town in a dunce cap, tarred and feathered, and made to perform community service until the age of 21.

Having disabilities doesn't mean can't earn yourself a pop in the mouth, like wheelchair guys. They should be held to the same standards as anyone. And they've got strong arms, too, so hittin' one should be y'know, okay if they earned it cause they can hit back too.

I would like to say your idea has merit for bullies. But you might want to read up on tarring and feathering. Tar is bloody hot and you can easily kill someone covering them with it. Kinda hard to get community service out of someone in the ICU.

Agrees

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Is that the Pink Berry guy?

doglover:

Is that the Pink Berry guy?

Not unless that is what a Korean looks like.

2wolves: doglover:

Is that the Pink Berry guy?

Not unless that is what a Korean looks like.

He was Korean?

doglover: 2wolves: doglover:

Is that the Pink Berry guy?

Not unless that is what a Korean looks like.

He was Korean?

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Just because he was artistic? Not all artsy males are gay, ya know.

Ooba Tooba: doglover: Ooba Tooba: Would you yourself feel alright punching a guy in a wheelchair? Even if he was a complete dick, I still have a problem with this.

I'm big into fair play. I'd let him hit back. Also I would not lean into them or anything, but a dick's a dick. Also, I can't punch for shiat, so I wouldn't feel bad about hitting ANY athlete in any state of health that lets them still play full contact sports because they do worse to themselves shaving of a morning.

But I wouldn't go all Captain Falcon on someone with a wasting disease or something. "You don't kick a man when he's down." is a general rule of spirit. If you've never seen MMA, sometimes the guy whose technically "down" on the ground needs to be hit repeatedly and in indelicate places. But if someone's truly ill or injured, you protect them. If someone's fine but just can't walk, they are just one of the guys. Pop.

I think I understand what you are saying, and am sure perhaps some folks in wheelchairs might even take offense at my "unwillingness" to engage in fisticuffs with them. But I personally would not feel right about it, even bending down after a jab to "let" them hit me back. And yes, I would wager one of those punches would probably feel more like a kick by a mule.

I was once punched in the face by a wheel-chair bound friend. Admittedly I was in his wheelchair at the time - which he had allowed me to do... But I hadn't quite got the handle of the "sportiness" of his particular type of chair (the axle is moved forward to provide faster and/or more powerful strokes, but also requires better balance) and so crashed it. When I came back to where he was sitting he whacked me one, saying "those are my legs you idiot, be careful with them!". He was right, of course, and I deserved it. We still remained mates long afterwards, but yes, I never did anything again to earn such a whack from him.

/My schoolmates had a lot of fun with the story, as he and I had the same name, so it had extra hilarity.
//He ended up having a medieval themed wedding, or so I heard
///I've been afraid of looking him up these days; his condition was degenerative, and I don't know what state he would be in...

ultraholland: did they ask him how many times was struck?

about 70 cents


/hot water burn baby

yes, we must punish and publicly humiliate the boys that did this to him, we must what's the word ... oh yes, BULLY them.

At least we know what gang the bully belongs to

Okay these whiney parents have options beside "EVERYONE CATER TO MY DISABLED CHILD!"

1) Enroll the kid in martial arts. Autistic children do surprisingly well because the environment is very disciplined. It also helps them focus their hyper episodes a bit.

2) Change school until you find a fit. If they REALLY have been complaining daily about the bullying and nothing is being done, why the fark are they allowing their child to be constantly tormented? Find a different school.

3) Enroll autistic child in an afterschool program tailored to helping them deal with society in general. They are all over the place and they work extremely well...especially teaching them how to be less annoying/offensive/obnoxious/weird to their classmates which will decrease the bullying.

I am not talking about sever autism here, which this child clearly does not have. He has a form of autism couple with ADHD which just makes him that annoying kid no one is class likes because his is weird. THAT is how the other students view him. He needs extra help to figure out to properly socialize with the other kids. Just sending him to school to figure it out on his own is creating situation like this, so I think the parents are partially to blame for this one.

The kids beating him up deserve some special attention in juvi though. Poor kid, I feel bad for him, but at some point he is going to have to learn how to deal with it or he is never going to be a successful adult.

bestie1: He got beat up. So what? In my school with a class size of 80 kids there was at least one fight a week. I don't condone beating up kids but is this really a national headline?

You equate jumping a defenseless kid with fighting? Yeah...

bestie1: He got beat up. So what? In my school with a class size of 80 kids there was at least one fight a week. I don't condone beating up kids but is this really a national headline?

Did you fail to notice in which news source this story was linked to?