Video: Making the bus monitor cry
posted at 6:41 pm on June 20, 2012 by Allahpundit
Rarely will I post something for you that I haven’t watched myself, but I’ll cop straight up to not having watched this one. I can’t take it; the descriptions are bad enough. The cruelty’s so gratuitous and the target so sympathetic that it’s a bit like reading a story about someone torturing a small animal. A taste from the Blaze:
Among the comment that hurt the most, Klein told WHAM-TV that one child’s statement that she is so ugly that her “kids should kill themselves” was particularly hurtful. Her son committed suicide 10 years ago.
She’s a widow, hearing-impaired, and a grandmother of eight. But all’s not lost: Thanks to Reddit and the viral outrage this clip has caused, there may yet be a happy-ish ending.
Now, as awful as this was, there was a silver lining in not only the universal condemnation of the actions of these kids, but also in a call for support for this poor woman.
Her name is Karen, and she has been a widow for 17 years, has lived in the same town she grew up in and is about to have her 50th high school reunion in the same school district, and deserves so much better than the actions shown by those in this video. Let’s figure out ways to show her that there are still good people out there…
A redditor has established an indiegogo account to collect donations. I can offer no assurances that these funds will reach her, but will make sure to update this thread once verification is obtained. In the meantime, if you would still like to donate, here is the link:
KAREN FUNDRAISER UPDATE $21,300 as of 2:10pm PST!
Follow that link in the blockquote. They just cracked $30,000 as I’m writing this. Klein apparently makes a little more than $15,000 a year as a bus monitor.
HuffPo seems to have the definitive round-up on this so go there to see how it went from random YouTube video to Internet cause celebre and national news story within 24 hours. As New York magazine says, she’s bound to turn up on the morning shows before the week is out so you might as well get up to speed now. As for the kids, take comfort in this: They can’t all be budding sociopaths. Some of them must be garden-variety brats who couldn’t resist the temptation to join in on rhetorically stomping a helpless victim. They’ll get older and they’ll mature, and then they’ll see this video again and what you’re about to feel will hit them too. Imagine that guilt. Unspeakable.
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The great dame was wrong – Britain wasn’t worth fighting for.
Schadenfreude on April 12, 2013 at 5:25 PM
Just one symbol
Schadenfreude on April 12, 2013 at 5:26 PM
til germany runs out of money???
cmsinaz on April 12, 2013 at 5:29 PM
Europe is doomed.
Unfortunately the US is too…because this admin. and the stupid R enablers emulate all which is bad in Europe.
Schadenfreude on April 12, 2013 at 5:30 PM
Hmm, reminds me of another country, can’t quite put my finger on it, ummm… first name starts with “Uncle”, and… last initial is “Sam”, I believe.
Midas on April 12, 2013 at 5:32 PM
Germany realized in peace what it could never do in war.
All the socialist/communist theoreticians hailed from there…while they lived the lives of 1%rs.
Schadenfreude on April 12, 2013 at 5:32 PM
What isn’t understandable is how the Eurozone, and by extension even our own economy, can deal with the inherent idiocy of low productivity, low savings, low output economies being mashed together in some fake kind of quasi-national arrangement (without common history, institutions or civic arrangements) with their polar opposites in a single currency. It isn’t working and it can’t work, and the citizens of the Mediterranean countries (Cypress, Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal) and the whole of Central Europe are becoming sort of slaves to the European Central Bank..
MTF on April 12, 2013 at 5:34 PM
The EU and Eurozone models are unsustainable. Yet this is the direction into which Obama and his cult followers are steering this country.
WhatSlushfund on April 12, 2013 at 5:43 PM
The swine in DC
Schadenfreude on April 12, 2013 at 5:43 PM
DFCtomm on April 12, 2013 at 5:49 PM
You can hear the pops in the dam across the pond.
Of course, our political beachbums on this side of the pond think it is a sunny day and not to worry.
“……………………now where did all the waves go?………………………”
Starlink on April 12, 2013 at 5:50 PM
I was in Ireland two weeks ago and if the people I talked to are indication, they don’t want any part of the EU.
Can’t blame them.
Bob's Kid on April 12, 2013 at 5:56 PM
Nothing new to see here……move along.
dddave on April 12, 2013 at 5:57 PM
Well, MFT, I can’t say tat I’ve ever heard of an unemployed slave
krome on April 12, 2013 at 5:58 PM
The banking system is the mechanism that provides all the governments of the Western World their ability to spend debt. They will sacrifice us all to the banks to keep the cycle going just a little longer, but not to save the banks as most think, but instead to save themselves.
DFCtomm on April 12, 2013 at 6:00 PM
I can tell you with pinpoint accuracy when Slovenia’s crisis comes to a head. In June, a day after Mrs. Nomad and I arrive on vacation. We somehow seem to have that ability. Two years ago, we arrived in London just as the austerity riots began.
Last year, we went up into Michigan via Detroit so there could have been riots, a financial crisis, or a plague of locusts- who could tell if that wasn’t normal.
Happy Nomad on April 12, 2013 at 6:04 PM
I CANNOT believe that adding an extra and very expensive layer of government has not worked out well.
jukin3 on April 12, 2013 at 6:10 PM
Depends on who you are. It worked out pretty well for the bureaucrats.
The reality is that a common currency looks good on paper. The reality, which includes all cultural differences, cultural history, and economic strength paints a different story. Had the original rules about membership been followed, there would have been no problem but few member nations. The ink wasn’t even dry on the charter documents before the rules were beginning to bend. This is the result.
Happy Nomad on April 12, 2013 at 6:24 PM
The eurozone is already dead. It’s a zombie looking for others to eat.
ROCnPhilly on April 12, 2013 at 6:32 PM
I know my European Sales have really gone south over the last year or so.
trigon on April 12, 2013 at 7:03 PM
Debt sucks. Who knew?
WryTrvllr on April 12, 2013 at 7:09 PM
Erika, I put you down as a rather neutral observer. Some of us including Thatcher as quoted yesterday in a post here in HotAir thought the Eurozone was a loser when it was being formed.
burt on April 12, 2013 at 7:12 PM
Hell I was still a CHILD at the time and I said “the place that had two world wars and a lot more little wars before that is gonna be all lovey-dovey and use the same money? Yeah RIGHT!”
The entire notion reeked of libtard idealism from stem to stern.
MelonCollie on April 12, 2013 at 9:46 PM
Enjoy life while you can. We have maybe two or three years (at best) and then everything will come crashing down. At this point, it is inevitable.
Theophile on April 12, 2013 at 10:34 PM
They could get that figure down to a feel-good 8% if they calculated unemployment like we do here in the US.
RADIOONE on April 13, 2013 at 6:12 AM
The best part about Cyprus is that it was an off-shore safe-haven for Red Mafia types. Bet they got their money out of there before the crisis hit because, you know, a few of them got a stranglehold on natural gas pipelines going to Europe. Oil too, come to think of it. Wonder where they moved their money to the last couple of years?
The EU decided to treat Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal like they were Germany. Gave them the credit rating of Germany.
Makes you wonder what the Germans will do to get their credit rating back?
And we know that Putin had at least one money laundering operation going on in Germany with SPAG… have to wonder if he has a few others, as well? He’s been pretty good friends with the metals and oil based mafia, not so much the natural gas mafia organization, but two out of three ain’t bad.
Ah, the EU. If Germany doesn’t own you then, sadly, the Russians will have to step in.
Its for your own good, you know?
Poor children just don’t know how to run anything.
The Red Mafia does far better than these governments do.
They would be a step UP, now, wouldn’t they?
Just takes a little crisis to get the secret police, or whatever they are called, in control. A good strong man. Willing to lie, cheat and steal for ‘the good of the country’. Isn’t the EU lucky to have a guy like Putin sending them oil and natural gas? What happens when the money runs out? Well that oil and gas have to be paid for, you know?
Nudge, nudge. Wink, wink.
Just some real estate.
Cyprus, maybe. Greece, too. Portugal, too. Nice warm water ports, all of them. Mmmmmm…. Russia. Warm water ports. Debt crisis. Money running out. Heating, lighting. Real estate.
A match made someplace far away from heaven, that’s for sure.
ajacksonian on April 13, 2013 at 7:49 AM