RM> No doubt, and I think the worst of that was usually done anonymously
  > one way or another. A lot of bullies don't want to confront people out
  > in the open..  More so in these days of 'electronics'. I think a lot
  > of kids become 'bullies' who would never confront someone in person.


AR>IMO most bullies take refuge in numbers. It is a well understood phenomenom.

AR>Most of the times bullying gets started when an important person in a given g
  >p kickstarts it, thus everybody within the group feels as they are given perm
  >ion to partake.

Yes, that can happen. My incident happened in younger grades but there
was more of the group thing going on once we got to highschool.
You get these cliques, Sports people or Music people or Math or
Science Geeks or whatever.

I didn't run into problems by then - highschool being ages 14 to 18
or so - and I started right in wearing motorcycle gang type clothes
and saving to by my first motorcycle and rather than being bullied
I actually had a bit of a following.

There was a aown side though.. I was flirting with a girl one
day, a friend of one of the guys who hung with me, and it seemed
to be going well, so I asked her out. She sort of stood there wide
eyed and silent for a minute staring at me, and then she blurted
out, I'm scared to death of you!.. and she ran off..

I thought girls were supposed to like 'Bad Boys' (?)..   B)

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