I’d set that little prick’s ASS alight. Just so he could experience the feeling himself.
Here’s a BCC article on the incident . The Beeb tends not to be sensationalist about stuff like this.
Meaning of course Rilch should’ve kicked her tormentor in the balls. I even thought about specifying in the event of a simulpost but then thought “naaaaah!”
I was trying to work out a joke involving Nancy, but alas, I was too slow.
I could have, but…If I’d done it while he was brandishing the lighter, I might have gotten burned further as he was falling to the floor. If I’d done it afterwards, he might have retaliated against my retaliation. This was not a “kid”; he was 18 and had been in juvi. Who knows what more he was capable of.
As it was, I didn’t get burned physically, just my ego. No one else approved of his behavior, and shortly afterwards, his friend apologized to me on his behalf. He’s
probably been in and out of jail a few more times by now. What can you do.
So how did a 14-year-old have a cigarette lighter in school?
Her parents should find out who provided that lighter to him, and sue the hell out of them. Real good case for adding emotional distress, disfigurement, & similar damage claims. Get her whole life story before the jury, and they should get more than enough to keep her in nice wigs for the rest of her life.
That’s how a real American would do it! 
My best friend in highschool set her own hair on fire once. We must’ve been only about 15 or 16. She was leaning in a doorway at a party flicking her lighter absent-mindedly while we were chatting.
This was the 80s so she had super-ultra-poofy bangs – the kind requiring half a can of hairspray each morning. Hair ignited, I raised my hand to slap out the flames… I had a beer bottle in my hand (yes, underage drinking at a party – deal with it!) she ducked thinking I had lost my mind and was about to bludgeon her to death with a bottle… then she smelled the whole “burning hair thing” and was able to slap her self in the head repeatedly and put out the flames.
Strangely, we didn’t really notice a change in her hair style.
Later in the evening, she almost ate a mothball thinking it was gum, the drunken host fell down the stairs, and we had to run away from the police…
Sorry, what was this thread about again? I was happily reminiscing…
This has been all over the UK TV news. It’s being presented everywhere as a case of bullying, and the school isn’t denying it.
The girl’s face is slightly odd-looking due to her cancer, and I’m fairly sure this was a case of singling her out for victimisation due to her ‘otherness’. I can believe it. My school in England housed an autistic unit, with the (IMO) misguided intention of integrating autistic kids with ‘normal’ kids, and the cruelty expressed towards them was horrendous.
If this is true, I hope the boy is severely punished, in a manner that makes him realise the gravity of what he did. Setting someone’s hair on fire is shitty, but for someone who has been undergoing chemo it’s pretty much the most vicious thing you can do. His punishment will not be worth it if he feels victimised, because he will blame the system and lose empathy with his victim. He really needs to learn just how much of a fucking wanker he was. Perhaps a few months’ community service on a juvenile cancer ward. That should do it. :mad:
So… put someone who abuses cancer victims in a juvenile cancer ward?
Am I the only one who sees the fundamental disconnect here?
Am I the only one who thinks that, even with her facial scars, she’s still a pretty girl? Such lovely blue eyes.
How else is he supposed to light his fags??
You’ve never been to Swansea, have you?
This kind of stuff happens all the time. When I was a teen, I was the last one to get on the bus each morning. Nobody ever moved over enough to give you more than an inch or two on the seat. So, with my ass hanging off the seat, it was a perfect target for the little f-er behind me to burn a hole in my pants and my ass with his lighter. All the while I got to listen to them saying things like “Doesn’t she feel that?” And I knew that if I said or did anything about it then and there, it would just get worse. And these kids “ruled” our neighborhood so you didn’t want them “upset” with you.
Problem was, reporting it did nothing. The school knew these kids were jerks, but didn’t know what to do. I went to the principals office and was told to change into my gym clothes. Yeah! That’s a great idea. Walk around in gym clothes all day while the whispers circulate. Instead, I tied my sweatshirt around my waist and continued about my business.
sigh Those were the days alright! Last I knew, though, they ended up in jail for theft.
You might not be the only one, but don’t you see the reasoning? It’s not like he’s going to be a serial cancer patient abuser. He’s likely a nasty little bully who picks on those less fortunate than himself. Supervised work looking after victims, and watching them die, would kick his arse into empathy mode. Rehabilitate as well as punish.
Only if he were given “gory” details of just how the patient was ill/dying, what the various diagnoses meant practically in layman’s terms, what the side effects of the medicines were, and was basically given the same knowledge of the patient as a family member would have. Maybe make him take care of one or two very sick children, strictly supervised, (never allowed to be alone with them) and let him see what it really means. Then let him make the connection. Depending on what kind of soul he’s got beneath his “fourteen-ness” it might work.
I don’t think he cares, quite honestly. I think he’d see it as an unconscionable waste of his free time and would see himself as the victim in the whole situation.