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Family: Bullying To Blame In Wyoming 13 Year-Old's Suicide
Wyoming Star-Tribune ^ | January 5, 2012 | Jeremy Pelzer

Posted on 01/06/2012 5:39:26 AM PST by truthkeeper

CHEYENNE — Alexander Frye was usually quiet and shy around other 13-year-olds. He was slow to make friends at school, his family said, and he was often teased and bullied by classmates.

With adults, Alex was a different person: He was talkative, made friendships easily and impressed even longtime Union Pacific veterans with his encyclopedic knowledge of trains.

About 200 of those adults packed the American Legion Post 6 hall on Wednesday for a police debriefing on Alex, who shot himself in a field south of the Union Pacific railyards early Sunday morning, according to the Laramie County coroner.

The discovery of Alex’s body on Tuesday brought a tragic, abrupt end to three days of searching by hundreds of volunteers...

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To: Hacklehead

Did it once. Broke his nose. That was the end of it.

If you’re going to do it, hit fast and hit as hard as you can.

Bullying sucks but bullies suck harder. Used to be a patrol leader for years. They would send me all the bullies. :)

Never had any troubles with them, but then they knew that they were in for a world of hurt if they even so much as touched anybody else.


41 posted on 01/06/2012 12:11:28 PM PST by BenKenobi
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