School bullies

[Jo Zebedee]

I'm looking ideas for things that a fairly sadistic school bully might do on younger kids that would be memorable enough to spread through the school. He is a genuine hard guy, so I think they might be fairly extreme, but he's not stupid so not things easy to get found out doing.

Any ideas, oh amazing Chronners. ( yes, that was my eyelids batting furiously.)

 

[Mouse]

Throw bottles of wee wee.

 

[TheDustyZebra]

What age are we talking about?

 

[barrett1987]

Steal the kids clothes when he is in the shower.
Head down the toilet.
Holding him down and writing or drawing on his face.
Pretend invite to the ''dance''

 

[Jo Zebedee]

What age are we talking about?

Probably stories dating back from he was 15 through to 17

Keep going, please, my cogs are beginning to turn. Thanks Mouse and Barrett!

 

[Phyrebrat]

• When I used to audition for shows, some pretty dreadful things went on to try and cut the competition down. One person had broken glass put inside their dance sneakers (under the soles), so you could vary that.
• Bleach carried in something like one of those Kinder Egg yellow capsules can be discretely thrown at the back of a dark-haired student's head so as to bleach their hair oddly.
• Chopped chilli seeds can be used one way or another, and salt or sugar poured over bicycle chains/punctured tyres etc

pH

 

[Montero]

If school did go so far as to investigate - I think wee wee has DNA (CSI watcher here).

"Accidental" step backwards/sly shove to put kid in muddy puddle.

Throwing bag of books on roof of building so kid can't do homework.

Wedgies - favourite with boys. Grab waistband of trousers and preferably underwear and haul up sharply to wedge the cloth hard up between the legs.

Flick hard with end of wet towel. (Locker room one.)

 

[Mouse]

I don't think a school would call in CSI for a bottle of wee.

 

[farntfar]

It also depends on the conditions in the school.
Is it daily attendance or boarding; single sex or both sexes.

But in all cases, there should be no outward sign of the bullying after the event, unless the action is designed to embarass, rather than hurt, so I'm afraid that bleaching of hair is unlikely. (Bleached hair can also be worn as a badge of courage by the victim, after the event)
If painful it must be pronounced but not obvious and not sufficient to cause an official investigation.
It should also be repeatable and indeed capable of increase, but generally hideable (by the victim, not the perpetrator)
In a similar way to victims of household abuse as I understand it, the victim of bullying will generally wish to hide the fact, as much as the assaillant.
Any physical signs must also be capable of explanation by other means. (games, falling off a ladder, spilling hot tea etc)

Before you ask, I was not a bully, nor indeed greatly bullied. But I had some schoolfriends who were victims.

 

[tinkerdan]

Seriously I can't think of anything.

Sheltered life. The times something happened to me it was stolen items. One time a hat and when I caught up with the culprit I got into trouble for grabbing them so I could get it back. Cost me detention for a week to get my stuff back and no I did not hurt them. After that I just wrote the stuff off as lost when it happened.

 

[psychotick]

Hi,

When I went to school (college) bullying was quite common and there were a number of kids who regularly got the thick end of it. One of my friends had a father who was an undertaker. He suffered under the appelation "digger" for five years simply because of that and I know it affected him. Everywhere he went in the school people called him that and in the end he did not complete his last year because of it.

Another kid, not in my class, was a boarder of extremely small stature and in the A class. He was bullied relentlessly for five years and as I look back now I can see him being profoundly affected by what happened. At one point in the sixth form a whole bunch of his classmates dug a grave in the sixth form lawn and started to bury him alive. I shudder to think what sort of psychological damage that must have done to him - but some year ago when I heard on the news that one of my classmates had been assassinated my immediate thought was that it was this guy finally getting some revenge.

Cheers, Greg.

 

[alchemist]

I don't think a school would call in CSI for a bottle of wee.

You obviously haven't seen CSI: The Early Years: Grissom goes to the prom

Proper sadists are imaginative and cruel. Like sending a forged suicide note to a kid after his father dies. Or framing the smart kid for cheating at exams.

 

[Phyrebrat]

It also depends on the conditions in the school.
Is it daily attendance or boarding; single sex or both sexes.

But in all cases, there should be no outward sign of the bullying after the event, unless the action is designed to embarass, rather than hurt, so I'm afraid that bleaching of hair is unlikely. (Bleached hair can also be worn as a badge of courage by the victim, after the event)

Before you ask, I was not a bully, nor indeed greatly bullied. But I had some schoolfriends who were victims.

Why should there be no sign of the offence outwardly? I think the distinction between bullying and embarrassing is an academic one. I agree that the environment is important as you say, however, and the acts chosen by the bully would be informed by such.

I have seen this twice; once in my school (a boys' grammar school), and second in a gay bar in Bournemouth. Neither victim wore the bleach as a badge of honour.

Now, I know I am the common denominator to both these stories, but I swear it wasn't me who perpetrated them

pH

 

[Boneman]

Chinese skin burns, they don't show at all, but by the cringe, they're painful... The sudden slap on the back of the head at any time , bit water-torturish, because you never know when it's coming, so your nerves are on edge the whole time. Grabbing and twisting the nipple (male on male, obviously!) is unbelieveably painful but doesn't leave a mark. Ditto the testicles if you want to be really nasty. All these can be denied by the bully because there's not a shred of evidence, and everyone around is intimidated and won't snitch. Ah, the joys of boarding school...

 

[SleepyDormouse]

Just spreading malicious gossip can be enough to really make an impact. It depends upon the person being bullied what sort of thing affects them most.

Are we talking modern setting? Video footage of people being bullied and put up on facebook, horrid emails, txts etc.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Brilliant, thanks everyone - I think a combo of Alc's sadistic know-how D) and Boneman's boarding school miseries are what I'm looking for. Then I need to add an Ulster twist.... Knee-capping might be a little extreme, though...

 

[lonewolfwanderer]

Here in SA the Initiation at schools used to be so bad that in most places it could be considered bullying

My dad used to tell me about his initiation at school... He had to run around the school building, stark naked, several times, then he got rugby tackled at the end- leaving a bright red strip straight down his middle.

Another would be- for about a week those who used the toilets weren't allowed to flush, and they'd dunk your head right in. (This extends upon Barrett's idea)

 

[Mouse]

Somebody at my school once put another of the girl's coats in the boys toilets, so the boys peed on the coat. That was horrible. Same person also filled up the shoes of a different girl with liquid soap. Filled them right up.

Someone tried to bully me once, until I punched her.

 

[Hex]

Like sleepy said, a lot of the worst bullying is psychological (though some of these suggestions make me wonder), anyway: threats of things -- like following you home/ hurting a member of your family etc is pretty nasty.

 

[Montero]

Initiation things - I've never run into a formal initiation at a UK school or University. Having seen the posting that it happens in SA, and having seen a lot about fraternity initiation on US TV, just wondered - has anyone run into a formal initiation anywhere in the UK?
Also how common is it in the US?


There is also verbal bullying - following someone down the corridor telling them how ugly they are or some other such thing and stopping when there is an audience other than the nasty kid's horrible friends.