Four middle-school students received a one-year suspension from school for bullying a 68-year-old bus monitor to tears. The ugly episode was caught on cell phone video (warning: language), recording the boys' relentless taunts about Grandma Karen Klein's girth.
One student's words were especially cruel saying, "You don't have a family because they all killed themselves because they don't want to be near you." Klein's oldest son committed suicide ten years ago.
Once the video went viral, the public outcry fueled a fund raiser to raise $5,000 for Klein to take a nice vacation – the result was an astonishing $667,000.
When asked about the bullies' punishment, Klein said the best part was "that they have to do community service for senior citizens." And, because the video went viral, "it's putting people into action, making them talk to their children, making them teach them what they should not do."
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