I think the skinny kid deserved what he got. Some might think the bigger kid acted excessively, but back in the day when I was coming up, I was taught to hit a bully as hard as you can and inflect the most damage to make and example of him or anyone else who wanted some. You don’t look for trouble and avoiding it is preferable. But, time comes when you have to prove yourself to the entire school that you not the one to be messed with anymore.
This is what the bigger kid, Casey, and I back him 100%.
A Facebook page celebrating “Casey The Punisher” and his “schoolyard justice” has attracted over 15,000 fans, many of whom are calling on Casey’s Sydney middle school to lift his suspension sentence following the fight.
Makeshift Photoshopped images on the page show Casey and his bully, Richard, engaged in a Mortal Combat video game-style match up. “Finish him,” the game instructs. “Fatality,” reads the screen as Casey smashes Richard into the ground.
The overwhelming support for Casey’s plight reflects an impassioned — and perhaps misguided — anti-bully rage.
“Well done Casey,” writes one Facebook fan. “I know how you felt being a big person myself, i just wish when i was teased and abused at school like you that the perpetrators had of been close enough for me to do what you did.”
ESPN’s Henry Abbott praised the viral video as exemplifying “an end to victimhood.” “The big kid in the video officially took himself off the ‘easy to bully’ list, and good for him going about the business of preserving his own dignity.” At the same time, Abbott noted, “If you’re against violence in schools, I can’t see cheering for it.”
