YouTube Hero: Australian Boy Body-Slams His Bully

[Jazzy]

A chubby Australian boy has rocketed to YouTube stardom after a classmate recorded a cell phone video of him body-slamming a smaller boy who'd been taunting him in the schoolyard.



Video Link: [media]http://video.dailytelegraph.com.au/embed/1841676941/Shocking-school-fight-video?player=narrow[/media]



The clip shows the apparent bully, seventh-grader Ritchard Gale, teasing and punching his victim, Casey Heynes, as a gang of other kids laugh at the abuse. Heynes, who is in the 10th grade, takes the bullying for a while, but then snaps and picks Gale up and throws him down on the concrete floor. Gale eventually gets up and limps away.



Both boys were suspended from their school, Chifley College in New South Wales, outside Sydney. Gale's mother has demanded an apology for the body-slamming of her son, and the bad publicity her family has received because of the YouTube video. But public support seems to be overwhelmingly on the side of Heynes, whose father said he'd been bullied for years without fighting back.



More than 100,000 people have joined a Facebook group defending Heynes, with some dubbing him Casey the Punisher and Gale, Ritchard the Rat. The global computer hacker group Anonymous also rushed to Heynes' defense, launching what it dubbed Operation Fat Hero in which it hacked into the website of the boys' school, Chifley College, and posted a manifesto accusing teachers of failing to provide a violence-free environment for their students.

Story Link: http://www.aolnews.com/2011/03/18/youtube-hero-australian-boy-casey-heynes-body-slams-his-bully/

 

[Lloyd]

hahaha my friend showed me this, POWERSLAM!!! (with jr screaming in the background)

 

[Nebulous]

I'm surprized that skinny little kid was the bully. I would have thought the chubby kid was the bully.



It was hilarious though.

 

[The Dragon Master]

The global computer hacker group Anonymous also rushed to Heynes' defense, launching what it dubbed Operation Fat Hero in which it hacked into the website of the boys' school, Chifley College, and posted a manifesto accusing teachers of failing to provide a violence-free environment for their students.

One good thing they've done