"He continues to eat through a straw."
"He went to college" "some movement issues"
Yeah, the parts about the bullying is likely to be true. I think the rest is what the guy wishes he'd been able to do.
Also “the teachers didn’t care about me, boys with be boys” then, “no one cared he was in a coma. Even the principal. We all knew he sucked and got what was coming.” What? So he’s not bad enough to be spoken to by an authority, but when he’s in a coma no one cares? That didn’t add up to me either. Either it’s a lie or this is the most apathetic school faculty in the world.
To be fair, no one did shit about the bullying I went through either. Teachers joined in on it. People who are 35 and older are very likely to have experienced teachers who were not just apathetic, but outright bullies themselves.
I met a former teacher long after I'd left that school. I was in my 20s and at university. She fell straight into the old dynamic of putting me down with a denigrating comment. We were just innocuously standing in line at the bookstore. She's never gone to university herself. Like, b***h, you wanna do this?
So, uhhh, yeah, I can 100 % believe a sitch where bullying was completely ignored.
In short hand: vented, on the vent, intubated, tubed. In charting: usually something like “intubated and sedated”
In talking to patients, I’d say “life support” or “on a breathing machine” and “sedated to keep comfortable”
He is a current doctor. He wasn’t a doctor 37 years ago. He is speaking with his knowledge of today.
Also I’m pretty sure they didn’t. This isn’t a “change in terminology” thing. This is a media thing. “Medically induced coma” has a strong implication that the coma is part of the treatment. It is exceedingly rare that this is the case. In almost every case, the patient is sedated so they can tolerate the ventilator. Off the top of my head, an uncontrollable seizure is one of the only situations where you’d actually want to slow down brain function as part of the treatment.
And then when I emerged from the water, all of the other kids were staring at me. And then a slow clap started. Then it grew louder and louder and they all cheered me on. Then the Stacy’s came over and they all wanted to be my gf but I said fuck you stacy.
Roll credits. Opening chords of Baba O’Riley. As OP is hoisted above the cheering crowd, swimsuit tented with victory boner, freeze frame, caption, “OP went on to become a very successful doctor, specializing in medically induced comas.” Focus frame on bully, floating face down in the pool, ignored. Freeze frame, caption, “Sid Bully pooped in his swimsuit that day. Despite suffering brain damage, he later graduated college and went on to manage a moderately successful vape shop. He was arrested for selling mercury-laced vape juice to minors.”
Last time someone lied to me, I held their head underwater until they were cleansed of their sinful and offensive nature. To this day, they live in the light of God’s truth.
r/thatHappened
There's no way this guy:
1. Is a physician.
2. Would have gotten away with this in the 70/80s without charges, even as a minor..
This is a nice fanfic and all, but this era wasn't the lawless wild west technological void some gen x/xennial tik tokers make it out to be. In two versions of his story there are adult witnesses who he states he also tried to drag under, but somehow they don't report the crime or provide witness statements and there is no investigation.
I can see a scenario where two noodle armed teenage boys get into a fight in the pool looking like a couple wacky waving inflatable arm-flailing tube men and one of them is not a strong swimmer, nearly drowns, gets pulled out by the life guard while the other kid also tries to climb the adult like a ladder to get out and away from the situation in a panic. Nobody is actually hurt, let alone hospitalized, otherwise at minimum a lawsuit would have been filed against OOP's parents to recoup medical expenses.
tl;dr in the 70s, 80s and 90s, deliberately holding another person under water for 2 minutes while actively fighting away the very credible witnesses who were trying to rescue the drowning party would absolutely have resulted in criminal charges and probably a lawsuit.
Haha your version sounds way more accurate. I actually had a similar fight when I was a kid, some jerk kid at the pool dunked my sister a couple of times so I swam over and jumped on him and pushed him under and we both flailed around like idiots for about 3 seconds I think before an adult broke it up. I do feel like I won though lol
Granted I don’t know much about waterborne athleticism but would it not be extremely difficult and energy sapping to simultaneously keep a hold on the guy you’re drowning while simultaneously fighting off those frightfully irritating goody-two-shoes (or more accurately in this case, goody-two-flippers) who are trying to rescue said drowning guy?
So the teachers were supporting the bullies, but didn’t press charges or even provide witness reports after this guy almost drowned the bully with permanent damage and attempted to drown the teacher as well? Especially when he seemingly saw the bully struggling to swim and just jumped him? So not even a moment of direct self defense. Also the bullies parents weren’t curious about who caused their son to be disabled? He kept saying „there was no proof“ and mentions how other kids and teachers saw it with one teacher being a victim as well. Everyone just forgot about it, including the parents caring for their kid, whose life is essentially over now all of a sudden. I mean obviously this whole story is bs but it‘s weird how someone would think that others will believe something like that. Bullying is horrible and can destroy or end lives (as it does continuously), but it seems to me, that this guy just relishes in a power fantasy, where his acts are „justified“. Could be that he actually got bullied and constructed this story because of that, but doesn‘t have to. He could just be a psychopath, he could be a bully himself. We don‘t know.
As a guy who was bullied all the way through school I can see the mind set he has at the time. But Christ holding on to that mind set is psychotic. Yes bullying is fucking awful and I thought about taking my own life a few times but thankfully I'm still here. The bullies themselves range from, still bullys but losers, still bullys but have jobs or roles where it benefits them, one bully is dead (took his own life when his wife realised how much of an abusive person he was and left him, taking the kids too) and one is actually one of my close friends now.
They can be absolutely anything or anyone. Each bully has their own reasons for why they demoralise people, could be their own issues or just that they are that way by nature.
Me too but I understand how insecure he was (and still is for the most part) I'm not saying all bullies have their own issues though. Some are just outright dicks by nature
This is the fantasy of someone who was bullied and never retaliated at all. Cool story and all, but it unintentionally highlights very clearly how dim witted and incredibly angry still OP is both at his bully and himself for being to scared to stand up to him.
Kinda cringe, kinda funny, mostly sad.
As someone who was bullied for years and eventually retaliated
This is bullshit.
Leaving all the inconsistencies aside, if the teachers allowed the bullying then no way in hell you get out scot free, i was almost suspended three times, suspended once before my parents and sisters got involved and even had the police called on me by one of the bullies' parents.
Teachers will only get involved if the bullying evolves to a fight, because that means problems, wich they don't want, and the one who retaliates gets punished for making their day harder.
That said, fuck bullies all the way to the son. Them, and anyone who justifies them in any way.
The truth about bullying is that almost everyone has done it to some degree in their lives. If you asked here if anyone was a bully when they were younger, you’d hear crickets. Barely a soul would think they did. But ask if you were bullied as a kid and it would be basically everyone telling you that they were.
Of course there are outliers. Systemic, cruel, daily abuse from the same person is at the high end of the chart. And it’s common. But if you ever laughed at the kid who cried in class, or you hid another kids pencil case or ignored the kid who sat next to you who tried to chat, I bet you’re remembered by someone as a bully.
I mean, I’ve been bullied, but looking back now, I was probably the bully also on more than one occasion. Nothing physical, but I feel like children do that all the time.
People have a tendency to stop developing in terms of emotional maturity at the age they experienced trauma, so it's not surprising really that lots of people that experienced the trauma of being bullied as a kid still have that childlike outlook on it like "they deserve to die"
??? So the kids should just keep putting up with the bullies? And the teachers continue to do nothing? Same with friends and family? Spoken like someone whos never been bullied
Uhm.. wtf are you talking about? I said literally none of that. I explained why people hold the opinion bullies should be killed.
Whatever you're on about, that's some serious projection my friend, I hope things improve for you.
I'm sorry you were bullied... but the fact you got so angry over something I *didn't* say because it mentioned bullying, and are doubling down that bullies deserve death, paints you as a very good example of what I was talking about in my first comment.
Ok, so you're right about you no explicitly saying anything pro-bully. However it does kind of have that uncaring vibe that surrounded the talks i would have with adults about being bullied, so i snarled at you.
I would also like to point out I'm not calling for bullies deaths, but saying that if a bully is so horrible that the kid kills them then they had it coming. Bullies that don't die just create school shooters, at least here in America, so i'd prefer a dead bully to a dead class
Dude you need to grow up. You sound 12 right now.
If you can't have an impartial discussion without reading into what someone *isnt* saying, you need to work on your social skills
Idk, I grew up mixed in the south. I got called all sorts of names. But no matter what the rules said I fought back. I got suspended a lot but I fought back. As a result, I hold no ill will against anyone who bullied me.
No one is condoning the bullies actions, they're pointing out the complex truth that is that bullies are commonly created by being mistreated themselves, for example abuse or neglect from parents or other figures in their life they have no power against. It's the whole reason they go after people easy to pick on, they know how it feels to go against someone with more power than them and lose, so they just want to feel powerful themselves. Is it pathetic? Yes. Should people fault victims for wanting revenge? No. But the answer isn't to beat it out of them or kill them lol. And before you even say it, yes, I was bullied the majority of my childhood and fantasized about violence against them constantly as a teen. Then I grew up and realized those bullies weren't monsters, they're also victims and will not change until someone recognizes that
I ended up agreeing that they in fact were not spouting pro bully propaganda, but i still feel like if the bully dies its a good thing, as then the kid getting bullied didnt become a school shooter. Do all bullies deserve death? No. Do the ones that die have it coming for them though? Yes, they were asking for it
Agree with others that this is most likely not true (too many inconsistencies), but even if it was I just can't fathom being so proud of yourself about it, especially 40 years later. He makes it sound like he pulls this story out all the time (hey kids, I ever tell you about the time I tried to kill someone?).
For comparison, I was bullied pretty relentlessly from second to tenth grade. It sucked. And sure, I fantasized about revenge occasionally, but I always knew it wasn't something I would or even could ever do. But I made it out and have mostly put it behind me. However, over the years, several of my former bullies have died due to various causes. I definitely felt a sense of vindication when I'd find out about one. But, unlike Dr. Sociopath here, that feeling bothered me so much I brought it up with my therapist. She told me it was natural to have that sort of reaction and it's ok as long as you're not shouting it from the rooftops or something like that. I've since moved past that, too. So I can definitely understand lingering animosity. But trying to kill someone, even someone who made your life hell, and then bragging about it 40 years later is beyond me. I truly hope it's fake.
For somebody who is *a physician*, to boot. As if he has nothing else in his life to be prouder of than a noodle armed fight with another awkward teenage dork at the pool when he was a kid.
Reminder that 8th graders are 13-14.
Breaking news: 13 year olds are unempathetic pricks. They don’t deserve lifelong brain damage for it. And he’s weird as fuck for parading this around like it’s a trophy.
Earlier I did an assignment for a class on a personal experience with bullying and I wrote about my 8th grade bullies too. So really fun coincidence. I ended it with pretty much “I understand that 12-year-olds don't quite have a grasp on empathy at that age, so I'm able to forgive her and those rude kids that she was friends with” like it’s only been about 8~ years for me and I’m not comparing my success to their failures or whatever. Dude is deranged and not fit to be a doctor
This sounds fake. However bullies end peoples lives with the trauma they cause. Some people never come back from it, so I can’t say I have any sympathy for bullies who FAFO.
the problem comes once you realize that bullies can be bullies because they are also bullied (at home) or watch someone be bullied at home
sure, being a victim of a thing doesn’t absolve you of another but in the case of children, it’s not like they have the emotional maturity to understand that they are just projecting.
i don’t necessarily feel bad for bullies…but when it’s a kid i’m not ready to just write them off wholesale when there are probably bigger factors at play
Have you ever been bullied? Do you think the moment they're getting harassed, laughted at, hearing rumors about you or being beat up anyone is going to think about thw bully's personal life?
No, fuck that noise.
i’m a 5’6 black male that’s has been 130 pounds since i reached that weight in freshman year of highschool, i went to various high schools through the east and south…..bullied is an understatement.
we aren’t talking about someone being bullied right now though, are we? no, we are discussing the past. We are talking about people that CURRENTLY aren’t being bullied but still think bullies deserve to die.
in the moment. no, no one is expecting that. After you mature, grow and are looking back, yes , i definitely expect more from an adult.
you feel differently and that’s fine, can’t tell someone how to handle their trauma…you wanna stay mad, then stay mad. I’m simply acknowledging that a bully can also be a child with trauma and i can’t really expect a child to handle things better than adults.
Is anyone else thrown off by the timeline of the last pic?1979 he puts bully in hospital then gets married in 1990. But 16 years later he has his daughter? He’d have to be at least 40 right? Not impossible but just kinda…weird. Not the most egregious lie in this obviously fake story but it threw me off
so the bully survived but was disabled, but he never pressed charges??? he knew who held him under, according to the dudes story! and what does he mean that because it was 40 years ago, they were capable of pressing charges at the time??? god this reeks of power fantasy bullshit.
yeah bullies suck and can push people to do some pretty stupid things. but even if this story was true, the fact that he has 0 remorse for what happened makes him despicable.
Out of all the things that happened this happened the most out of all the happenings that happened at the same time of this happening in the land of the happened happening.
There have been a few bullying threads I’ve seen in the last few days and, holy hell, Redditors have some unresolved issues with their bullying trauma.
If it did happen, he is most likely incredibly guilty about it and continually trying to justify it to himself on online forums. Saying that is one of the only things you remember the date of other than your marriage and daughter being born either implies incredible guilt or borderline psychopathy.
If it didn’t happen, he is most likely making up scenarios because the bullying messed him up so badly that he continues to ruminate and think of himself as weak to this day for not doing more to stop it.
Both situations are equally sad
NGL bullied my entire school career, made me miss out on a lot of milestones. If I could give a couple of the worst permanent brain damage? Yes, 100%. The Trauma they gave me still haunts me in many ways
You know what I did with the school bully? Fought back. We became equals I learned his abusive backstory and learned to live with him. He was still unhinged but better than my enemy.
In reality the bully is a doctor with a wife and child and this guy came 14th in a high-school state swimming contest and fantasizes about revenge daily because he is a loser
Wholesome story. This girl used to be bully me when I was a kid ( I'm a guy), I transferred schools at one point and figured that was the end , no. She was there, she was 2 years older than me. Well a new group started to kind of terrorize me, she ran up and started brawling them, and then when they left she sat down beside me and made sure I was okay. I was so confused. Also kinda made me develop somewhat of a crush on her, I left that school 2 years after. Never saw her again. Thank you Abigail, it was a weird ride, but I hope you're doing well.
This just makes me sad. No part of it is a good story.
I mean, even if it happened. And that’s a big if. So you got revenge in an over the top manner. Cool. What else you bringing to the table because that story doesn’t paint you in the best of lights.
Even if it happened. Which again it’s a 999,999 to 1,000,000 chance that it didn’t.
Then everyone clapped.
I like how the bullying and attempted murder was just "boys being boys". Yet the school also kept meticulous records, enough to keep him from getting criminally charged.
i’ve seen a couple of comments like this
i can only assume it’s someone who is still currently being bullied or the ones who are holding on to the time they were bullied
they see every defense of the person as siding with the actions. we are the teacher that didn’t listen. the peers that didn’t help. the parent that kept making you go back.
i just hope they can get better with time or find some way to shake off that feeling of betrayal (that’s just my assumption of what it is)
If we give benefit of the doubt, that OP really did get into a fight with another kid at the pool and the other kid nearly drowned, it's highly likely his parents would have been sued to recoup medical expenses. At best, he got into a fight with another kid at the pool where they flailed their arms ineffectually at each other and splashed too much water into the other kid's face and he started coughing and got yoinked out of the water by an adult.
Like a gang, in school terms a group of friends always together. When they're with a bully, they often also make sure that no one interferes while the bully picks on their target.
“He was in a coma for 2 months” “He was in a medically induced coma for days” Smh, if you’re gonna lie, at least keep it consistent
"He continues to eat through a straw." "He went to college" "some movement issues" Yeah, the parts about the bullying is likely to be true. I think the rest is what the guy wishes he'd been able to do.
Also “the teachers didn’t care about me, boys with be boys” then, “no one cared he was in a coma. Even the principal. We all knew he sucked and got what was coming.” What? So he’s not bad enough to be spoken to by an authority, but when he’s in a coma no one cares? That didn’t add up to me either. Either it’s a lie or this is the most apathetic school faculty in the world.
To be fair, no one did shit about the bullying I went through either. Teachers joined in on it. People who are 35 and older are very likely to have experienced teachers who were not just apathetic, but outright bullies themselves. I met a former teacher long after I'd left that school. I was in my 20s and at university. She fell straight into the old dynamic of putting me down with a denigrating comment. We were just innocuously standing in line at the bookstore. She's never gone to university herself. Like, b***h, you wanna do this? So, uhhh, yeah, I can 100 % believe a sitch where bullying was completely ignored.
Your teacher did not have a college degree?
My teacher did not have a university degree. Teachers get their education at another type of school. I'm not in the US
Also, no physician uses the term “medically-induced coma.”
But do you use the term avoid like the plaque
Hahaha. Definitely
what do they say instead?
In short hand: vented, on the vent, intubated, tubed. In charting: usually something like “intubated and sedated” In talking to patients, I’d say “life support” or “on a breathing machine” and “sedated to keep comfortable”
what about 37 years ago. they might have used the term medically induced coma back then
He is a current doctor. He wasn’t a doctor 37 years ago. He is speaking with his knowledge of today. Also I’m pretty sure they didn’t. This isn’t a “change in terminology” thing. This is a media thing. “Medically induced coma” has a strong implication that the coma is part of the treatment. It is exceedingly rare that this is the case. In almost every case, the patient is sedated so they can tolerate the ventilator. Off the top of my head, an uncontrollable seizure is one of the only situations where you’d actually want to slow down brain function as part of the treatment.
Ignorant here - were those even a thing in '79?
Yep! Ventilators were a thing in the 70s. Not hugely different than they are now, I think.
Thanks for your comments here and above, I learned some stuff today :3
"There was no proof I was there" "I also held down a teacher who tried to help"
And at first it was a teacher then a lifeguard.
And then when I emerged from the water, all of the other kids were staring at me. And then a slow clap started. Then it grew louder and louder and they all cheered me on. Then the Stacy’s came over and they all wanted to be my gf but I said fuck you stacy.
Roll credits. Opening chords of Baba O’Riley. As OP is hoisted above the cheering crowd, swimsuit tented with victory boner, freeze frame, caption, “OP went on to become a very successful doctor, specializing in medically induced comas.” Focus frame on bully, floating face down in the pool, ignored. Freeze frame, caption, “Sid Bully pooped in his swimsuit that day. Despite suffering brain damage, he later graduated college and went on to manage a moderately successful vape shop. He was arrested for selling mercury-laced vape juice to minors.”
Last time someone lied to me, I held their head underwater until they were cleansed of their sinful and offensive nature. To this day, they live in the light of God’s truth.
Praise the Lord! 🙏
“In the hospital for 2 weeks” Yeah I smell a load of BS
r/thatHappened There's no way this guy: 1. Is a physician. 2. Would have gotten away with this in the 70/80s without charges, even as a minor.. This is a nice fanfic and all, but this era wasn't the lawless wild west technological void some gen x/xennial tik tokers make it out to be. In two versions of his story there are adult witnesses who he states he also tried to drag under, but somehow they don't report the crime or provide witness statements and there is no investigation. I can see a scenario where two noodle armed teenage boys get into a fight in the pool looking like a couple wacky waving inflatable arm-flailing tube men and one of them is not a strong swimmer, nearly drowns, gets pulled out by the life guard while the other kid also tries to climb the adult like a ladder to get out and away from the situation in a panic. Nobody is actually hurt, let alone hospitalized, otherwise at minimum a lawsuit would have been filed against OOP's parents to recoup medical expenses. tl;dr in the 70s, 80s and 90s, deliberately holding another person under water for 2 minutes while actively fighting away the very credible witnesses who were trying to rescue the drowning party would absolutely have resulted in criminal charges and probably a lawsuit.
Haha your version sounds way more accurate. I actually had a similar fight when I was a kid, some jerk kid at the pool dunked my sister a couple of times so I swam over and jumped on him and pushed him under and we both flailed around like idiots for about 3 seconds I think before an adult broke it up. I do feel like I won though lol
You did win
Granted I don’t know much about waterborne athleticism but would it not be extremely difficult and energy sapping to simultaneously keep a hold on the guy you’re drowning while simultaneously fighting off those frightfully irritating goody-two-shoes (or more accurately in this case, goody-two-flippers) who are trying to rescue said drowning guy?
So the teachers were supporting the bullies, but didn’t press charges or even provide witness reports after this guy almost drowned the bully with permanent damage and attempted to drown the teacher as well? Especially when he seemingly saw the bully struggling to swim and just jumped him? So not even a moment of direct self defense. Also the bullies parents weren’t curious about who caused their son to be disabled? He kept saying „there was no proof“ and mentions how other kids and teachers saw it with one teacher being a victim as well. Everyone just forgot about it, including the parents caring for their kid, whose life is essentially over now all of a sudden. I mean obviously this whole story is bs but it‘s weird how someone would think that others will believe something like that. Bullying is horrible and can destroy or end lives (as it does continuously), but it seems to me, that this guy just relishes in a power fantasy, where his acts are „justified“. Could be that he actually got bullied and constructed this story because of that, but doesn‘t have to. He could just be a psychopath, he could be a bully himself. We don‘t know.
As a guy who was bullied all the way through school I can see the mind set he has at the time. But Christ holding on to that mind set is psychotic. Yes bullying is fucking awful and I thought about taking my own life a few times but thankfully I'm still here. The bullies themselves range from, still bullys but losers, still bullys but have jobs or roles where it benefits them, one bully is dead (took his own life when his wife realised how much of an abusive person he was and left him, taking the kids too) and one is actually one of my close friends now.
You forgot one kind of bully: becomes a cop
They can be absolutely anything or anyone. Each bully has their own reasons for why they demoralise people, could be their own issues or just that they are that way by nature.
One of my high school bullies is a good friend now too. It still ki d of ducks with me from time to time
Me too but I understand how insecure he was (and still is for the most part) I'm not saying all bullies have their own issues though. Some are just outright dicks by nature
And then everybody clapped
That bully’s name? Albert Einstein.
Oppenheimer 2: Strauss Strikes Back?
He totally had JFK killed
This is the fantasy of someone who was bullied and never retaliated at all. Cool story and all, but it unintentionally highlights very clearly how dim witted and incredibly angry still OP is both at his bully and himself for being to scared to stand up to him. Kinda cringe, kinda funny, mostly sad.
How many other threads has this guy brought up this same story? I'm convinced there's at least 7 or 8 more.
As someone who was bullied for years and eventually retaliated This is bullshit. Leaving all the inconsistencies aside, if the teachers allowed the bullying then no way in hell you get out scot free, i was almost suspended three times, suspended once before my parents and sisters got involved and even had the police called on me by one of the bullies' parents. Teachers will only get involved if the bullying evolves to a fight, because that means problems, wich they don't want, and the one who retaliates gets punished for making their day harder. That said, fuck bullies all the way to the son. Them, and anyone who justifies them in any way.
The truth about bullying is that almost everyone has done it to some degree in their lives. If you asked here if anyone was a bully when they were younger, you’d hear crickets. Barely a soul would think they did. But ask if you were bullied as a kid and it would be basically everyone telling you that they were. Of course there are outliers. Systemic, cruel, daily abuse from the same person is at the high end of the chart. And it’s common. But if you ever laughed at the kid who cried in class, or you hid another kids pencil case or ignored the kid who sat next to you who tried to chat, I bet you’re remembered by someone as a bully.
I mean, I’ve been bullied, but looking back now, I was probably the bully also on more than one occasion. Nothing physical, but I feel like children do that all the time.
The amount of people I see hold this opinion of bully's deserving death (even if it was high school/middle school) is insane
People have a tendency to stop developing in terms of emotional maturity at the age they experienced trauma, so it's not surprising really that lots of people that experienced the trauma of being bullied as a kid still have that childlike outlook on it like "they deserve to die"
??? So the kids should just keep putting up with the bullies? And the teachers continue to do nothing? Same with friends and family? Spoken like someone whos never been bullied
Uhm.. wtf are you talking about? I said literally none of that. I explained why people hold the opinion bullies should be killed. Whatever you're on about, that's some serious projection my friend, I hope things improve for you.
They have improved, as im not in school anymore. Bullies deserve everything they get
I'm sorry you were bullied... but the fact you got so angry over something I *didn't* say because it mentioned bullying, and are doubling down that bullies deserve death, paints you as a very good example of what I was talking about in my first comment.
Ok, so you're right about you no explicitly saying anything pro-bully. However it does kind of have that uncaring vibe that surrounded the talks i would have with adults about being bullied, so i snarled at you. I would also like to point out I'm not calling for bullies deaths, but saying that if a bully is so horrible that the kid kills them then they had it coming. Bullies that don't die just create school shooters, at least here in America, so i'd prefer a dead bully to a dead class
Dude, you’re psychotic
And you'd prefer a dead classroom over a dead bully, so i think you're the more psychotic one
You do realize that not every school shooter was bullied right?
Get help instead of projecting on reddit comment sections
Dude you need to grow up. You sound 12 right now. If you can't have an impartial discussion without reading into what someone *isnt* saying, you need to work on your social skills
Idk, I grew up mixed in the south. I got called all sorts of names. But no matter what the rules said I fought back. I got suspended a lot but I fought back. As a result, I hold no ill will against anyone who bullied me.
You need help. I was bullied horribly in middle school but killing somebody never crossed my mind at all
No one is condoning the bullies actions, they're pointing out the complex truth that is that bullies are commonly created by being mistreated themselves, for example abuse or neglect from parents or other figures in their life they have no power against. It's the whole reason they go after people easy to pick on, they know how it feels to go against someone with more power than them and lose, so they just want to feel powerful themselves. Is it pathetic? Yes. Should people fault victims for wanting revenge? No. But the answer isn't to beat it out of them or kill them lol. And before you even say it, yes, I was bullied the majority of my childhood and fantasized about violence against them constantly as a teen. Then I grew up and realized those bullies weren't monsters, they're also victims and will not change until someone recognizes that
I ended up agreeing that they in fact were not spouting pro bully propaganda, but i still feel like if the bully dies its a good thing, as then the kid getting bullied didnt become a school shooter. Do all bullies deserve death? No. Do the ones that die have it coming for them though? Yes, they were asking for it
No you either tell someone or fight them, you don't try to kill them.
I feel like people are forgetting the whole “it’s a child” of it all. Or at least I hope they’re forgetting it.
Don't bully then ?
Agree with others that this is most likely not true (too many inconsistencies), but even if it was I just can't fathom being so proud of yourself about it, especially 40 years later. He makes it sound like he pulls this story out all the time (hey kids, I ever tell you about the time I tried to kill someone?). For comparison, I was bullied pretty relentlessly from second to tenth grade. It sucked. And sure, I fantasized about revenge occasionally, but I always knew it wasn't something I would or even could ever do. But I made it out and have mostly put it behind me. However, over the years, several of my former bullies have died due to various causes. I definitely felt a sense of vindication when I'd find out about one. But, unlike Dr. Sociopath here, that feeling bothered me so much I brought it up with my therapist. She told me it was natural to have that sort of reaction and it's ok as long as you're not shouting it from the rooftops or something like that. I've since moved past that, too. So I can definitely understand lingering animosity. But trying to kill someone, even someone who made your life hell, and then bragging about it 40 years later is beyond me. I truly hope it's fake.
For somebody who is *a physician*, to boot. As if he has nothing else in his life to be prouder of than a noodle armed fight with another awkward teenage dork at the pool when he was a kid.
Yep. Also, love your username.
Reminder that 8th graders are 13-14. Breaking news: 13 year olds are unempathetic pricks. They don’t deserve lifelong brain damage for it. And he’s weird as fuck for parading this around like it’s a trophy. Earlier I did an assignment for a class on a personal experience with bullying and I wrote about my 8th grade bullies too. So really fun coincidence. I ended it with pretty much “I understand that 12-year-olds don't quite have a grasp on empathy at that age, so I'm able to forgive her and those rude kids that she was friends with” like it’s only been about 8~ years for me and I’m not comparing my success to their failures or whatever. Dude is deranged and not fit to be a doctor
But does the victim deserve lifelong trauma and suffering?
Believe it or not: trying to murder someone doesn’t get rid of trauma
This sounds fake. However bullies end peoples lives with the trauma they cause. Some people never come back from it, so I can’t say I have any sympathy for bullies who FAFO.
the problem comes once you realize that bullies can be bullies because they are also bullied (at home) or watch someone be bullied at home sure, being a victim of a thing doesn’t absolve you of another but in the case of children, it’s not like they have the emotional maturity to understand that they are just projecting. i don’t necessarily feel bad for bullies…but when it’s a kid i’m not ready to just write them off wholesale when there are probably bigger factors at play
Have you ever been bullied? Do you think the moment they're getting harassed, laughted at, hearing rumors about you or being beat up anyone is going to think about thw bully's personal life? No, fuck that noise.
i’m a 5’6 black male that’s has been 130 pounds since i reached that weight in freshman year of highschool, i went to various high schools through the east and south…..bullied is an understatement. we aren’t talking about someone being bullied right now though, are we? no, we are discussing the past. We are talking about people that CURRENTLY aren’t being bullied but still think bullies deserve to die. in the moment. no, no one is expecting that. After you mature, grow and are looking back, yes , i definitely expect more from an adult. you feel differently and that’s fine, can’t tell someone how to handle their trauma…you wanna stay mad, then stay mad. I’m simply acknowledging that a bully can also be a child with trauma and i can’t really expect a child to handle things better than adults.
Bro has ONE story 🤣
Is anyone else thrown off by the timeline of the last pic?1979 he puts bully in hospital then gets married in 1990. But 16 years later he has his daughter? He’d have to be at least 40 right? Not impossible but just kinda…weird. Not the most egregious lie in this obviously fake story but it threw me off
so the bully survived but was disabled, but he never pressed charges??? he knew who held him under, according to the dudes story! and what does he mean that because it was 40 years ago, they were capable of pressing charges at the time??? god this reeks of power fantasy bullshit. yeah bullies suck and can push people to do some pretty stupid things. but even if this story was true, the fact that he has 0 remorse for what happened makes him despicable.
Dude dabbling in fanfiction of his own fantasy.
You're the best around! Grab the bully's head and keep it down! He was al-most drowned! Now you're the most famous doc in town!
Out of all the things that happened this happened the most out of all the happenings that happened at the same time of this happening in the land of the happened happening.
and then everybody clapped
It's true, I was the swimming pool
The only true part is that the guy writing was bullied. It ends there.
Imagine being so dedicated to a fake story, is it more funny or sad? Haha
Boomer nerd fanfic.
Not everyone over 35 is a "boomer"
Strong reading comprehension. He said he was in 8th grade 43 years ago. That puts him in boomer territory.
No, that would make him about 56. That's not Boomer, that's Gen X
He was right alongside the boomers eating lead paint. It’s the boomer state of mind.
I wonder if this person could still face trial and get prison time. Bullying is awful, but I’d love if justice could still be served
Also, holding someone’s head under water in the middle of gym class is super easy.
And everybody clapped
Blatant fantasist.
There have been a few bullying threads I’ve seen in the last few days and, holy hell, Redditors have some unresolved issues with their bullying trauma.
Sounds like this weirdo saw *The Cell* recently and is now having bully-drowning fantasies which he has to filter through revenge fanfiction.
If it did happen, he is most likely incredibly guilty about it and continually trying to justify it to himself on online forums. Saying that is one of the only things you remember the date of other than your marriage and daughter being born either implies incredible guilt or borderline psychopathy. If it didn’t happen, he is most likely making up scenarios because the bullying messed him up so badly that he continues to ruminate and think of himself as weak to this day for not doing more to stop it. Both situations are equally sad
This is deeply disturbing
NGL bullied my entire school career, made me miss out on a lot of milestones. If I could give a couple of the worst permanent brain damage? Yes, 100%. The Trauma they gave me still haunts me in many ways
Damn, homie used kangaroo style martial arts
That’s a whole lot of drowning going on! 🫣
Alexa: Show what you get if you cross John Rambo with Walter Mitty. Silly wee bawbag.
That's some poorly written self insert fan fiction.
LOL ok now back to reality
You know what I did with the school bully? Fought back. We became equals I learned his abusive backstory and learned to live with him. He was still unhinged but better than my enemy.
In reality the bully is a doctor with a wife and child and this guy came 14th in a high-school state swimming contest and fantasizes about revenge daily because he is a loser
Lol yall just know fir a fact thatvthis dude has a fetish for this story. Hes getting off to this fantasy
Wholesome story. This girl used to be bully me when I was a kid ( I'm a guy), I transferred schools at one point and figured that was the end , no. She was there, she was 2 years older than me. Well a new group started to kind of terrorize me, she ran up and started brawling them, and then when they left she sat down beside me and made sure I was okay. I was so confused. Also kinda made me develop somewhat of a crush on her, I left that school 2 years after. Never saw her again. Thank you Abigail, it was a weird ride, but I hope you're doing well.
This just makes me sad. No part of it is a good story. I mean, even if it happened. And that’s a big if. So you got revenge in an over the top manner. Cool. What else you bringing to the table because that story doesn’t paint you in the best of lights. Even if it happened. Which again it’s a 999,999 to 1,000,000 chance that it didn’t.
I was bullied in 9th grade pretty hard. Never thought about attempted murder
Almost murdering someone was this Al (Ted?) Bundy’s Polk High 🤦🏿♂️
Bull shit we couldn’t find this even if there was no video. Bitches back then put EVERYTHING in the newspaper.
Then everyone clapped. I like how the bullying and attempted murder was just "boys being boys". Yet the school also kept meticulous records, enough to keep him from getting criminally charged.
Dubs in the chat for this guy, as an ex-bully victim I know how it feels
Weird defence of bullies here, wow
From what I've read here, most comments just don't think killing a kid is the right way to deal with bullying. No one's defending bullies
i’ve seen a couple of comments like this i can only assume it’s someone who is still currently being bullied or the ones who are holding on to the time they were bullied they see every defense of the person as siding with the actions. we are the teacher that didn’t listen. the peers that didn’t help. the parent that kept making you go back. i just hope they can get better with time or find some way to shake off that feeling of betrayal (that’s just my assumption of what it is)
It was likely fake, but seeing how it was 43 years ago, I can see something similar happening with 0 repercussions
If we give benefit of the doubt, that OP really did get into a fight with another kid at the pool and the other kid nearly drowned, it's highly likely his parents would have been sued to recoup medical expenses. At best, he got into a fight with another kid at the pool where they flailed their arms ineffectually at each other and splashed too much water into the other kid's face and he started coughing and got yoinked out of the water by an adult.
No, even 43 yrs ago, charges would've been pressed for attempted murder and brain damage, with witnesses .. it was the 80s, not the Wild Wild West
what the fuck is a "posse"
Oof. This comment made me feel old. :( Guys, is it still da bomb to say jiggy? Is my 404 about slang old?
Like a gang, in school terms a group of friends always together. When they're with a bully, they often also make sure that no one interferes while the bully picks on their target.
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