We would like to believe that most of you will agree with us when we say that children should respect the elderly. Obviously, this is a lesson taught to kids by their parents, teachers and society in general.
We don't know where the chain broke but someone clearly failed to teach the children seen in this video taunting an elderly bus matron employed by the Greece Central School District in Rochester, New York, about respect and compassion.
The youngsters verbally abused the woman to tears while at the same time filming the incident on a cell phone camera and then reportedly uploading it on Facebook where it was discovered by a third party who then posted the video on YouTube with this description:
"NOTE: I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS, I SAW THE VIDEO ON FACEBOOK AND UPLOADED IT HERE TO SHOW THE WORLD HOW F***ED UP KIDS ARE."
The elderly woman, whom Gawker identified as Karen Huff Klein, wrote on her Facebook page that she enjoys working for the school district and "will continue to work...unless I come into lots of money."
The Democrat and Chronicle reported that Greece Police Capt. Steve Chatterton said that Greece Central School District officials told the police about the videos on Wednesday morning. Chatterton stated that his department will “"nvestigate the incident and take appropriate action".
In addition to the first clip, the same YouTube poster uploaded two more videos that appear to have been shot on a separate occasion, again with some youngsters harassing an elderly woman - we can't say for sure if all three videos are related.
Be warned, the following videos contain graphic language.
17 Comments:
The world has gone soft on teaching kids values and respect - youngsters believe they can get away with this kind of behaviour and that it is "cool". What they need is a good hiding and I bet there'd be a queue lining up to beat some manners into these brats.
You start. I'd be next in line to instill some discipline and respect. How horrible those little sh*ts are. It is interesting, sadly at the expense of the woman, how the 'mob mentality' really takes over. I am willing to bet most of those kids, individually, would not behave like that. But once one starts, the rest follow. Like little lemmings. Awful.
ME! i live near their town
OMG it is sad! Those are not kids, but little monsters! Congratulations to their parents, good work.
Welcome to the modern world.
Well ultimately I think it starts with us as grownups first. We must be careful and mindful of what we place on the market. Whether it be tv or the internet we must take in full consideration concerning how it will effect the next generation to come, but we are so caught up in money that we are very willing to sell our morals and principals down the drain and along with that our children come. Now, we have desensitize our own children and made them into beast.
These kids know there are no consequences for actions nowadays.
It used to be that an adult could do some butt-whooping if someone else's kids were acting up, and the parents would thank that person AND make the delinquents apologize.
Now, those same parents would say their little angels are innocent, and then call the nearest ambulance chasing lawyer and sue the old lady for harassing the kids.
Lets Give Karen -The bus monitor- H Klein A Vacation!
http://www.indiegogo.com/loveforkarenhklein?c=home
Dude, you guys need to stick to CAR related articles. It was bad enough when you started posting Russian crap, now this? Seriously guys?
I would hope the parents HAVE handled the situation and avoid the cost and time of involving the police. The break down-lessons in compassion and respect at home! Mr. Oklahoma should have to wear a sign saying, please notice, from now on my clothes will be coming from Wal-mart and Payless. The first offender-longer videa-Parents-you should be ashamed and should have your child publically make it up to this poor woman that showed far more respect towards your child than she should have to... Imagine the cost of buses going up in Greece? Could it be to install VIDEO cameras! Where was the bus driver's support? A trouble shooter should have been called to say the least!
Shut your mouth!
what you need is
a tree
some ropes
a public place
those kids involved
a tv that loops these video and let the community do them a favor
There goes the idea that kids are innocent little angels.
It's on a bus! So it's car related...sort of....
Seems somebody found out who these kids are and where they live, posting their names and addresses online and they started getting death threats, their parents afraid for their lives moving them to undisclosed locations. Interesting how video creates consequences for such actions.
The lady in question has been getting donations from around the world, hundreds of thousands of dollars so far.
I think its terrible what she went through however she's now $630,000 richer as a result of it:
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/bullied-grandmas-windfall-over-630000-taxfree-20120625-20x3f.html
I wished they had video cameras and Youtube when I was getting the bus to school..cha-ching!
Wish when those kids get old they get the same treatment they did to those persons
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