High school girls charged with assault over fight posted on YouTube

[alp227]

CBC News reports that two students from Dover Bay Secondary School in Nanaimo, BC, Canada (at Vancouver Island west of the city of Vancouver) have been charged with assault ("B.C. girls in YouTube fight charged with assault", article includes video from the CBC Vancouver 6PM news, and this was the top story). According to police, the girls lured the female victim to a parking lot at a local mall, and they were disputing over trash talk. The investigation began 2 weeks ago ("Teen girl lured to brawl posted on YouTube: police", also includes video).

Last year, a former Dover Bay student named Ashkan Sultani committed suicide after being bullied at the school, and he had even transferred! ("Bullying caused suicide, parents say")

I live in the San Francisco Bay Area and have heard local gang violence stories about people getting shot for bad-mouthing other people. What's with this thin-skinned, hypersensitive, trivally retaliatory bully mentality spreading among youth everywhere whether in the ghetto or suburbs where the attitude is "you talk sh-- about me, I'll f--k you up"? Because teenagers are excessively narcissistic and self-centered and don't give a hoot about empathizing and understanding each other? The craziest thing is that the CBC News report (the video in the first linked article) quotes a YouTube comment calling this fight "the funniest thing I've ever seen".

[TheMadMonk]

1. Because they're never been allowed to learn the lesson that the world...

...hits back.

They never learn about the consequences of their actions, and worse still some learn the profit in becoming a consequence in the manner of these girls.

[Warren DeMontague]

2. Because if there's one thing humans who have food, safety, and physical shelter are good at

it's flipping way the fuck out over, basically, nothing.

Look at the imbeciles who put the guy in a coma for wearing a Giants Jersey to Dodger Stadium. It's like we've got a planet full of people with fucking cheez whiz for brains.

[trumad]

3. Don't insult cheez whiz.

[Warren DeMontague]

4. Oh YEAH? Whaddaya gonna DO ABOUT IT, HUH?