[GU]elmur_fud
I have balls of Depleted Uranium
People tried to bully me because i was shy and quiet. However, being near 6 foot in sixth grade lead to people only trying it a couple times. I typically tried to defend people from bullies.
As for your friends nephew, that blows. When are schools going to do something about physical bullying in schools to prevent another Columbine (which worked great for me since i was in the group of freaks that wore trench coats and everyone feared us from then on).
Local news ran this just last night.
http://www.kxxv.com/Global/story.asp?S=13386551
I was bullied my softmore year of highscool (b4 then I had attended a private school all my life). I was not just bullied though I was out right assaulted. In an industrial tech class a bully squirted hot glue out of an industrial hot glue gun on my arm it burnt a hole through most of the skin (I have thick leathery skin fortunately). About 2 weeks b4 school was out the same kid in the same class stabbed me in the leg with a sheet rock knife (the same thing as a box cutter but the blade doesn't retract usually) he claimed it was an accident but spent 2 months in juvi over the summer.
However towards the end of the year I had started taking martial arts. My junior year was quite a different story. I made it my goal to discourage bullying any way I could. My senior year I went back to boarding school, I didn't have to deal with bullying much there my dad was the boys dean. 1 guy did try, Another senior who was mad about a prank somebody played on him and was blaming the nerdy white guy (me) but I didn't have time to defend myself the senior class president stepped up in front of him and punched him in the nose and told him to sit down and shut up. I found out later that he stood up for me cause he heard me call the previous dean a racist asshole (still my opinion of the man to date), which is what the he was fired for. Racist comments anyway. He told the board that it would be allot easier to maintain control of his dorm if they didn't admit so many... you get the idea. They fired him on the spot.