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Bullied bus monitor receives more than $200G in online donations
FoxNews.com ^ | 6-20-2012 | foxnews

Posted on 06/21/2012 9:45:43 AM PDT by servo1969

A New York bus monitor who was berated and bullied by a group of middle school students has received more than $200,000 in online donations.

Karen Klein, 68, is seen in a 10-minute viral video attempting to ignore the verbal attacks by students on a bus operated by the Greece Central School District, near Rochester, N.Y. Children on the bus hurl repeated insults and threats at the grandmother, calling her fat and at one point suggesting that her children commit suicide.

But donations have since poured in for the grandmother in hopes that she’ll take a “vacation of a lifetime,” according to fundraising site indiegogo.com. As of midday Thursday, a total of $201,925 had been received for Klein and the video had been viewed on YouTube more than 1.6 million times.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bully; bus; monitor; woman
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To: servo1969

Their parents must be so proud.


101 posted on 06/21/2012 7:32:48 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: Covenantor

I can take on 20 5 year olds.


102 posted on 06/21/2012 7:36:19 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (General James Mattoon Scott, where are you when we need you? We need a regime change.)
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To: servo1969
Looks like the web page to give her donations is offline or has crashed.
103 posted on 06/21/2012 7:40:20 PM PDT by rabidralph
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To: servo1969
More than $400,000 in donations for this lady.

Shouldn't be long before the OWS people badger her for money for their worthless cause.

104 posted on 06/21/2012 7:42:27 PM PDT by rabidralph
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To: HiTech RedNeck
They — the kids, NOT the bus driver — put it on You Tube? They really thought they were untouchable, didn’t they?

Of course they're untouchable! And they know it... They also know mommy and daddy will tell the mean authorities to stuff it.

Bah! Let 'em tell it to the judge.

I teach those types of kids. The "little darlings" tried to set fire to the bus once. Well, more than once, but it almost worked once.

105 posted on 06/21/2012 7:49:23 PM PDT by SCalGal (Friends don't let friends donate to H$U$ or PETA.)
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To: sport
Just remimber, one day shits like these will be running the Country.

Ugh. Makes me want to keep an M1 Garand and a M1911A1 next to the bed. B-P
106 posted on 06/21/2012 7:51:13 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (General James Mattoon Scott, where are you when we need you? We need a regime change.)
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To: servo1969

Are lumps of coal being sent to the bratty ‘children’?


107 posted on 06/21/2012 7:53:11 PM PDT by GOPJ (The 'doting court eunuchs' of the MSM fail to notice...)
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To: mware
As Karen as already said she does not want criminal charges filed against them, the parent should insist on the community service.

Mistake. They NEED to be punished. They should be slapped across the mouth just for the language they were using.

108 posted on 06/21/2012 7:58:24 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: dead
Why has there not yet been some opportunistic douchebag politician holding a press conference to introduce legislation to put an end to elderly abuse?

Ummm, democrats are on the side of the teenagers... the suck-up press - doting court eunuchs of the MSM - will NOT choose to cover something that makes one of their favored groups look bad. Watch and you'll see - this won't be run in any newspaper...

109 posted on 06/21/2012 8:00:05 PM PDT by GOPJ (The 'doting court eunuchs' of the MSM fail to notice...)
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To: mware
Father said he was appalled by his sons conduct.

Bullsh*t. He's appalled the kids were stupid enough to put this up on YouTube where it winds up embarrassing Dad in front of the whole country.

110 posted on 06/21/2012 8:01:51 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: mware

they need to do HARD labor, and give all the money they earn for a year to that woman...after their butts have been whipped raw. In the meantime, Karen needs to take some serious martial arts training and get back on that bus!


111 posted on 06/21/2012 8:03:55 PM PDT by GilesB
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To: freekitty
Where are the parents and why are they raising such fitly mouthed children?

They hear it from their parents...if I am outside in Red Hampshire working in the garden; I will hear the 'f' word or 'm-f'er' anywhere from 10 to 100 times per DAY in a residential neighborhood...kids and adults, mixed company. Interesting to note that during the ten years I lived in Tennessee, I only heard the 'f' word ONCE. Obviously, a better class of people than the elite snobs of the northeast.

112 posted on 06/21/2012 8:07:06 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: cherry
hope she can retire from those crappy kids

Me too. As of yesterday $250,000 was raised for her - soon she can get out of that hell. To think an elderly person has to work for $15,000 a year at a job that she has no authority in and deal with the products of a culture of disgusting moral and cultural values. These kids deserve serve punishment to insure their crappy ways never spill out on Innocent people again.

113 posted on 06/22/2012 6:01:25 AM PDT by Bitsy
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To: Nowhere Man
Agreed. I would have loved to jump into the screen and give these “kids” the butt-whoopings

Me too. I was raised to respect my elders and people in general - my whole town was raised that way. Priests, nuns, parents other kids would have let those brats know what that kind of behavior brings and they would have been ostracized from everyone.

114 posted on 06/22/2012 6:07:17 AM PDT by Bitsy
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To: All
Online donations for her "vacation" are approaching $500,000!!! I am so happy for this lady. I think she could easily break a million. A lot of donations are coming in from other countries now. This has truely gone viral.

I gave a meager amount (funds are tight) and I haven't even watched the video. Just reading the comments on it is all I need to know. If I were to watch it I'm sure I would foul my mood more intensly than I am prepared to tolerate.

115 posted on 06/22/2012 6:08:52 AM PDT by toddly
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To: mware

I’d hope he’s appalled. And embarrassed and ashamed.

As for his son suffering enough? Those sound like the words of a “father” who believes his son is now a victim and needs no further discipline over the matter.


116 posted on 06/22/2012 6:23:00 AM PDT by Nickname
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To: sport
Just remimber, one day shits like these will be running the Country.

They already are.

117 posted on 06/22/2012 7:51:28 AM PDT by ponygirl (Be Breitbart.)
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To: Bitsy

“I hope she gets enough donations to retire from that garbage heap of future humanity that rides that bus.”

The criminal kids were taunting her because she’s poor. I have a feeling that by this time next week her net worth will be more than these kids’ parents’ savings. At least there’s that.

Do they still perform lobotomies? These kids would be good candidates.


118 posted on 06/22/2012 7:57:41 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: miss marmelstein
Sadly, in watching this video, I think we are dealing with child psychopaths. There was a recent NY Times Magazine article on this subject and these horrible kids fit the bill. These kids are our future...

From what I've read, this is what happens when children are sexualized too early. They become sociopathic/psychopathic. No concern for anyone but themselves and lack of sympathy. But I'm taking a wild guess that the NY Times didn't cover that angle?

119 posted on 06/22/2012 7:58:38 AM PDT by ponygirl (Be Breitbart.)
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To: mware

“at the request of Karen charges will not be pressed against them.”

Aren’t death threats, etc., crimes againt the state? I don’t believe a D.A. needs to have a victim’s “OK” to prosecute.


120 posted on 06/22/2012 8:13:13 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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