I would love to get my hands on the piece of crap. Beating little kids up, I don't care if he's a kid too. Man I would have love to have been on that bus. What a useless piece of crap that bus driver was... excuse me...excuse me.... please stop beating that boy.... Link to video
What do you expect that old lady to do? She called the police asap. She is a bus driver, not a cop. They are probably trained to not get involved.
I expected her to use her position of authority as an adult to at least scream at him to stop. That kid could have been killed or given a permanent disfigurement while she stands by. She should have been screaming that she called the police and then tried to get an adult male to break it up or tried herself. Not just watched placidly while a child was being beaten.
I don't think bus drivers have any position of authority. Hell, teachers barley do these days. My wife is a high school teacher of eight years, she knows better than to try and break up fights. She didn't just watch, she called the police and said to stop. She is just some grandma bus driver, not a bouncer.
The truth is that sadly teachers, bus drivers, etc. for the most part aren't allowed to break up fights. It's all about lawsuits these days, and people need special training in order to be legally allowed to break up fights. It's a very sad state of affairs.
It depends on the teacher and the situation. I wouldn't want my wife getting hurt trying to break up a fight, sorry but it's just not worth it. She is an educator, not a peace officer. What she was trained to do is go and get a football coach (or maybe a volleyball coach), security guard, police officer, etc. They are told not to break up fights primarily for their own safety, not legality.
I wouldn't be so quick to condemn the guy without much of a backstory: It all starts innocently enough. A student sitting in the back throws a small football or paper wad toward the front of the bus. Who knows? Maybe this had been going on for a long time and this incident was just the straw that broke the camel's back. Obviously, the guy was pretty pissed to deliver such a beating, so I really doubt the other guy was too innocent. Some people do deserve these kind of things. Don't **** with people, and you are a lot less likely to get put in the hospital.
Antisonic there is nothing that kid could have done short of banging the other dude's Mom that would have justified such a response. Don't be ridiculous. Wait there is one more thing. If that was my little brother getting the hell beat out of him - then maybe that would be justification. That kid backed up and tried to get away, there is no way he provoked it and I am embarressed for you to have suggested it. Unless of course he just molested the other dudes sister or something. Even then there is likely a better course of action.
How on Earth could you possibly know that? All we have is a brief clip of him getting his ass kicked. I have yet to see anyone get their ass kicked that bad just for the **** of it. Logic would dictate that he did something to really piss the other dude off.
Why didn't any of the other students try and break it up? I know in my school, back in the day, even though there were the dipsh*ts who always tried to keep people from breaking up the fight, most of us would always try and get in there and seperate people.
I thought it looked pretty much like a pansy ass girl fight. The guy that supposedly "got the beating" kicked the other guy off of him several times and then casually walked off the bus.....didn't even run. Not impressed......saw much worse in high school. ....granted, I did go to Sharpstown.
Oh, and yeah, I agree that there are better courses of action. It just looks like that was a very angry youngster and his judgment must've been pretty clouded from it.
It didn't look like that was the first beating that youth administered. He looked like an old hand. I am sure anyone with that kind of confidence and hatred is a long time bully. Usually if someone is going to beat someone up justifiably it is their first time or so and they don't look like they are picking on a little kid.
Pole, I went to Sharpstown too, so I saw my share of fights. What year did you graduate. I graduated in '92. I came in in '88, the year after the big riot that broke out into bissonnet. Needless to say, I was unimpressed by this fight on the bus.
This stuff happens all the time. Happened all the time when I was a kid. The only difference is that surveillance is now so prevalent that normal, run-of-the-mill occurrences like this one (after giving the Newscasters a big Newscaster-Boner) get replayed repeatedly, often over and over again, before they're looped while being replayed repeatedly over and over again, and eventually we have an uninterrupted flow of a bus surveillance tape being looped while being replayed repeatedly over and over again interspliced with the shocked and saddened commentary of the local community, parents, child psychologists, sociologists, policemen, retired Army Generals, ad nauseum, who all get themselves outraged and express their outrage, "This would never happen if (fill in your solution of choice; church, Afterschool programs, getting Gray Davis out, whatever)!", in a voice-over segment on Fox News/CNN/KHOU/(insert station here) while, in the background, the bus surveillance tape of some kids fighting gets repetitively replayed in loop over and over again repeatedly and finally some congressmen suggest doing something about it (while on camera, of course) and that, if re-elected, they will assure safety for our children, not incidents like the one on that bus surveillance tape being played, right now as we speak, repeatedly in a repetitive loop configuration over and over again. Kids fight all the time, it's not a big deal. It's only the "most severe beating we've ever seen" because it's on videotape, and now people who rarely see kids fight can see it (looped, repeatedly, over and over again). (In my opinion, it's more disturbing because of it's surreal proliferation through every media outlet than because of it's content). But, one thing for sure - everyone's gonna want to see it, and the media may make a bit more in advertisement dollars.
....and one more thing. It's about time that Florida teen was beaten. That Florida teen was starting to annoy me. ..and I will be releasing a dance remix of that Florida teen beating as a b-side to my next single, biatchez. It will be the surveillance tape from the bus with the Florida teen beating, playing in loop while I repeatedly yell, "This is the remix! Uh-huh yeah!" over it.
This sort of stuff does happen all the time and as somebody already said the only thing that makes this look bad is that it was caught on videotape. I remember a very bad outbreak my senior year in high school where a fight started during a morning pep rally inside the school gymnasium then escalated and people started fighting outside then people started fighting in the school where it just got really ugly. This fight on tape is not that bad compared to many of the school fights I've seen.
Pretty lame beating. That kid punches like a girl. If he had any training whatsoever, with the time that he had, he should have been able to kill that other kid, or at least knock him out. What a disappointment. I guess my expectations were too high after reading the thread title and the stupid, overblown article they had on the website.
Those other kids are just watching. And some just left the bus. WTF. Well if it was my school bus, the kids would have been laughing. I don't know..it's still pretty crazy. Mental...crazy outbreak.
