Posted on 09/17/2010 11:04:23 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
FLORIDA (KGO) -- A father boarded his 11-year old daughter's school bus in central Florida to confront her alleged bullies.
She has cerebral palsy, and James Jones says some kids on the bus had been taunting her, hitting her and had even thrown condoms at her. He brought her on board and asked her to point them out.
"Everybody sit down. Everybody sit down," Jones said on the surveillance tape. He then orders his 11-year-old daughter to point out her alleged tormenters. "Show me which one. Show me which one," he said.
"I'm gonna (expletive) you up -- this is my daughter, and I will kill the (expletive) who fought her," Jones said.
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The end result? Those kids will NOT be harrassing his daughter again. He put the fear of God into those little shi*%!
I’d do the same. I’d also hope the Father wasn’t one of those “my home is my castle, .45 with a round in the chamber next to the door to deal with threats” types, and the story of my death wasn’t met with cheers from the “some people need killin’, especially if they came to
my house and threatened me” types on a message board.
It would have been far better to just drop from the sky on them, deliver his load of whoop ass, tell them who he was and that next time it would be even worse, and then disappear.
Exactly.
Are we the only adult males who paid attention to how Batman does things?
Sheesh.
When I was about 9, and older kid started picking on me. The walk home went right by his house. After quickly getting sick of it, I caught his younger brother who was my age. I shoved him against a fence and informed him that the next time his brother messed with me I would stomp the crap out of him.
The older kid never bugged me again.
Back in the day, kids were afraid of their parents. I was never afraid of facing the principal, I was afraid of facing my Mom.
If some handicapped child's father came to the door and accused me of teasing their offspring, my mother would have knocked my teeth in, made me apologize, and force me to be nice to the child for the next year.
What I want to know is why NO ONE on the bus had the balls to stand up and DEFEND this child? All the kids are wimps? I got into more than one fight standing up for someone who was weaker, and put more than one bully into the dust.
Wow, blame the victims.
Nice way to blame the victims.
You’re right.
The “other option” would have been to drag the little bastards off the bus by their necks and beat the crap out of them, which I probably would have done.
This father showed great restraint.
“Sorry, I have to go against what the father did. There had to be other options.”
Correct, he could have called me, and I would have beaten the little s—ts until they bleed from their ears.
I’m not sure if this has been posted yet since I haven’t read through all of the replies but the daughter has been hospitalized on a suicide watch due to the bullying.
I bet none of the students on the bus will be bullying anyone... for awhile anyway.
Nothing has changed. When I was in junior high (then 7th, 8th, and 9th grade, the grade I was in), totally unprovoked, I was hit in the back of the head hard by a deliberately thrown softball (which are not soft). When I confronted the thrower I was immediately hit in the face. I could have, and perhaps should have, retaliated but I chose to tell the teacher (coach). He asked: "You weren't hurt were you?" And he did absolutely nothing about it.
” I support any parent who steps in and puts a stop to it.”
Parents should to tell their wimp brats to stand up for their own rights and not intervene on their behalf.
If they intervene on their behalf the kids will grow up to be wimps!
No, parents have not relinquished anything; Government Education has forcefully taken the authority through power, intimidation and bullying of the State. If you do not believe this, just look at the many programs intended to neutralize the parent and the family.
I will standby the point, if the father contacted the school and they did nothing on the first complaint…considering several points, this child is disabled, they are in charge of the child’s welfare, they have video recorders on the bus...
Good for him.
WTF?!?!
The daughter was being bullied by multiple kids and she has cerebral palsy.
Good for Jones! Schools are notoriously lax about getting rid of bullies. Yet they will expel a student for bringing gumdrops to school.
A cooler head would have won the day - punks like this would have crapped themselves if he had come up to one of them alone in the middle of the street and politely introduced himself and then said “ If you or your friends even look at my daughther again - I know where you live”. I had to do something similar to some punks who were picking on my boy!
The threat is implied not specific and leaves the horror of it to the imagination!
Mel
And if their bullying continued, then hunting them down and permanently dispatching them would have been a civic duty.
He did try, with no success.
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