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everyday situations spiral out of control. >> it was just devastating, you know? it was just brutal. >> things escalate quickly from calm to chaos. and pushing the limits can sometimes spell disaster. >> oh, my god! >> i saw him lifeless. i was really scared. >> when the boundaries are crossed between right and wrong, clever and foolish, humble and arrogant. >> whoa, whoa, whoa. >> things can go too far.
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fists fly on a california freeway when rush hour frustration turns violent. >> it's one thing to have a one-on-one fight, but to kick a guy on the ground when he's down? that's just brutal. that's inhumane. >> june 12th, 2012. los angeles, california. it's late in the afternoon when 24-year-old emile age is driving to football practice after school on the i-5 freeway. >> it was rush hour. people are so frustrated getting off work ready to get home. >> los angeles is infamous for its congested roadways. in fact, it's among the top three worst cities in the united states for traffic according to a 2012 forbes magazine study.
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california highway patrol officer chris baldinado knows these maddening conditions lead to road rage. >> road rage is more often than you think. giving someone a friendly gesture with your finger to verbal arguments all the way to people physically fighting. just a matter of how far it escalates. >> there's always road rage in los angeles. >> spotting some commotion ahead, emile begins inching on the freeway to take a closer look. two cars are blocking the right lane and an argument is underway. as emile slows down, he sees things are escalating quickly. >> i was like, oh, my god. they're going to jump him. i'm thinking i need to record this. >> emile rolls down his window with his radio blasting. he's inches from the fight. >> so i filmed it from the
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passenger seat leaning over. >> the verbal dispute intensifies. in an instant, both met toe to toe, fists in the air in what looked like a bare knuckle boxing match in the middle of the row. -- road. >> the guy by himself was giving one of the guys upper cuts to the jaw, like some gnarly punches. >> but it doesn't stop there. >> i guess one of the guys said i'm not going to let my friend get taken advantage of. so they started jumping him. >> getting both of his attackers in a clinch, the man in the brightly colored shirt is only able to hold them for a brief moment. >> and then somehow he lost his balance, and they both slammed him. they're punching him on the ground and they started dragging him. and then one of the guys went from behind him and kicked him in the face. >> the man is knocked unconscious. but the two aggressors continue to deliver blow after blow to
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his limp body on the ground. >> it was just devastating. you know? it was just, like, brutal. >> the two assailants quickly leave the scene unaware that the entire attack is caught on camera. witnesses rushed to the site. >> did you take a picture of that? >> i got the whole thing. >> get the license plate. >> i was thinking, like, this guy is either dead or he's suffering a major concussion. >> you all right, bro? >> onlookers call 911 to report the assault as emile continues to record and encourages the injured man back to his feet. >> get up. you can't get up? >> the victim not only survives the brutal beating, but the decides to drive away before the police even arrive. >> come on, dude. >> i said dude, you should wait here. you know? because i had to get to practice and everything.
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it's a normal day for me. he said he's fine driving. and he got in the car. >> by the time our units responded, all parties had left. traffic was moving. >> it's not until emile age uploads his video and it goes viral that the victim jerry patterson comes forward to police. patterson explains his side of the freeway fight on the local news. >> i cut three guys off accidentally. i tell them i'm sorry, my bad. they got in front of me and stopped the car. and it just escalated from there. >> jerry never thought the fight would escalate to the point that it did. for him, the next day is business as usual. >> the next morning i was really dizzy and coordination was off. but i took some aspirin. i had to go to work, you know? >> the california highway patrol asks the public for their help identifying jerry's attackers.
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>> the video did help in the sense it was a clear image of all parties' faces. we got a plethora of calls coming in. that totally helped the department in obtaining those individuals. >> in response to the video, david menendez and ramirez are charged with two counts of in march both pled guilty to assault and numerous other convictions. they plead not guilty. the case is pending. numerous people have questioned why emile didn't do more to help defend the man who was clearly out numbered. >> my mind set was like i want to jump in. this is wrong but the best thing i can do is get it on tape so the chp can do what they do. you know? you don't always have to be violent and be a good citizen. >> to videotape it is perfect evidence and helped us in obtaining the individuals. i applaud him for doing that. i don't know if he got out and helped that that would have escalated the situation and hurt himself.
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>> everybody can relate to road rage and being in l.a. traffic. >> you just don't know who you're talking to. you don't know what they're capable of. they could have a knife or gun. is it worth it? never. coming up, when a dare goes too far, there are serious consequences. >> i literally thought i just saw my friend die. >> when "caught on camera: out of bounds" continues. les has evd to launch your big idea. adding thousands of products online every day. from hard hats and goggles. to tools and cleaning products... to state of the art computers, to coffee to keep you fueled. from the sign over the door to the boxes to get it out the door. yes, staples has everything you need to launch your big idea. except your big idea. so when you get an idea, we're ready with everything else. staples. make more happen.
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in belton, texas. a city just outside of the biggest army base in the united states, fort hood. to beat the texas heat, soldiers and civilians alike head to a local swimming hole. a group of teenage boys are there that day. >> the lake during the summer is one of the biggest hangout spots. >> the group decides to bring a video camera to film their antics. >> we decided to film anything we thought was worth watching over and over. from skateboarding, to doing stupid stuff, to franking each other. we were just going to be adolescent boys at the lake. >> go now. >> the idea for this video is to record each other cliff jumping. an activity not unusual for a hot summer day. >> this is going to be funny. >> the cliff we were jumping off of was probably around 20 feet or so. there's not much runway. it's a lot of rock and brush. >> chris handly, a 15-year-old
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local is one of the teens. >> if you jump properly, you have no problems, you don't hit the bottom and bounce back up. and keep having fun. >> but if the jump falls short -- >> you land in water that's about this deep with jagged big rocks underneath. >> as the boys take turns launching themselves off the cliff and into the water below, a crowd begins to gather. >> i kind of felt obligated to do something, like put on for the party or whatever. >> so chris decides to take it up a notch. >> the plan was for chris' jump, he was going to set this bush on fire. he was going to jump over it. so the insanity level of this jump was up there, for sure. >> you can't even see it. >> pour the lighter fluid. hell yeah! >> as chris tries to light the bush on fire, cameras roll from
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above and below. ? . >> pour it over there. >> jay jones is one of the teens filming. >> i was in between the bush and chris on top of the cliff filming. i guess mainly the only thing i was worried about was getting the bush lit on fire. i've seen chris jump over that bush before. >> you can hear jay shouting to make the fire bigger. >> that's not enough. >> first we tried lighter fluid. and it wasn't making a dramatic enough effect on the bush. so then it turned to the gas. >> now you got to light it again. >> we struggled for awhile to get it lit. >> just before chris is about to jump, spectators on a boat offer up another challenge. >> do it naked. >> somebody dared me to do it naked. so it just went to another level. >> chris is the kind of guy, i've never seen him back down from a dare. >> it finally gets lit. >> yes! go!
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>> i felt rushed because the fire was going out fast. we used everything we had to make the fire. >> chris rushes to pull down his shorts before the dying fire goes out. but as he runs for the cliff, his friends can see that his swimming trunks never come completely off. >> as soon as i saw his shorts get caught, i instantly knew something bad was going to happen. >> chris trips just before the jump and falls 20 feet over the cliff's edge. >> he didn't jump out at all. his forward momentum pulled his body through the flaming bush and head-first down so the back of his head hits on the rocks. >> oh! someone go down there. >> he disappeared over the edge. all of a sudden you hear a smack against the water. people started freaking out. >> oh [ bleep ]. >> aaron strunk doesn't think twice. he jumps in after chris.
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>> holy [ bleep ]. >> as soon as he surfaced, i saw him floating there. >> he was like a bobber on a fishing line. >> chris' body quickly begins to sink beneath the surface. >> we thought he might have just been passed out at first. that's when we started seeing the blood emerge. that's when things got real serious. >> call 911! >> luckily one of the boats of onlookers happens to be a group of army medics from fort hood. they immediately jump into action and swim toward chris. as the medics try and stabilize chris, his friends are panicked. they fear they may have just filmed their friend's death. >> call 911 right now! >> one of the first things that popped in my head was he could very easily be dead. he could have very easily broken his neck from the fall and could be dead. we might have just seen our friend die.
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>> chris handly makes it to the hospital. and after five hours of brain surgery, he emerges alive. >> had a subdural and epidural hematoma. both the outside and inside of my brain were bleeding which was causing intercranial pressure. the doctors said i was really, really, really close to the point of not being able to come back. >> while chris may have eluded permanent injury, he and his friends are scarred from the memory of that day. the lesson they will never forget. >> the fact we caught a near-death experience on camera really, really reminds chris and all of us all the time that it can happen like that. and you're gone. and you're never coming back. so that alters some of the choices we make in life. >> with a little time and
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maturity, the group gains perspective on the traumatic event. >> i definitely think i took it a little bit too far. it was just dumb and reckless. not a very smart idea. i would tell kids to just chill out and think about what you're doing before you do something that could possibly end your live. >> oh [ bleep ]! oh [ bleep ]! coming up, a coach steps out of line. >> whoa, whoa, whoa. >> what he did is uncalled for. and it's horrible. >> and chaos erupts in the outfield. >> within that moment, they went at each other. >> stop it, guys! >> when "caught on camera: out of bounds" continues. passenger: road trip buddy. let's put some music on. woman: welcome to learning spanish in the car. passenger: you've got to be kidding me. driver: this is good. woman: vamanos. driver & passenger: vamanos. woman: gracias. driver & passenger: gracias. passenger: trece horas en el carro sin parar y no traes musica.
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it's ridiculous. what he did is uncalled for and it's horrible. >> the canadian culture has long been defined by its love of hockey. even the $5 pill shows children playing the sport. but at a rink in vancouver, one coach brings shame to the game. like many young players, elizabeth papasis' son showed a love of the game. >> he's played since age four. >> he was playing in the championship game against the uvc hornets in yellow. >> we were all hyped up, like all the parents. my family members were there too. we were all rooting for them.
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>> team manager tammy holeg is there cheering for his sons also in blue. >> this particular league, everybody wants to win. it's good hockey. >> at the sound of the closing buzzer, the hornets prevail winning 5-4. the final game of the season may be over, but the action on the ice is just about to heat up. >> at the end of every game, you have your hand shake which is a sportsmanship thing. nhl does it when they lose a stanley cup. everybody does it. and that's where everything changed. >> coach martin trumble of the hornets doesn't look like a man who just took the gold. instead, he seems to rush through the line of the children barely shaking hands. >> seems like he was on a mission trying to get at a certain boy.
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so when we saw that he sticks it foot out and trips my son and the other boy, they both fall down. >> outrage erupts. it appears the coach intentionally trips two players. elizabeth's son is one of them. >> i was so angry that he did that. my son, he was pretty shocked. he's a very sensitive boy. why would he do that? i don't understand why an adult would do that. >> the other boy, whose family requested he not be identified, breaks his wrist in the fall. according to witnesses, this boy was a target of the coach's rage the entire game. >> it's horrifying, because it doesn't matter what the kid did if he did anything, that an adult had to do that. it's awful. >> the hornets coach denies the trip was on purpose and says he merely slipped on the ice.
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but parents on the richmond steel disagree. they call the paramedics for the injured minor and the police for martin trumble. >> we were all angry, the parents got up and were yelling about screaming. the coach gave the bird to us. so it wasn't a pleasure to watch. >> and then the icing on the cake? a hornets player follows his coach's lead and throws a water bottle at the crowd. >> a coach is not just a coach. they're also your mentor. you have to lead by example. if you do it, it's okay for them to do it. >> in an ugly scene, the hornets players support their coach's bad behavior and skate off the ice taunting the angry crowd. >> the coach tripping really, really took away from the kids. >> martin tremble pleads guilty to assault. he is sentenced to 15 days in jail and 12 months
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probation. and since the video hit the internet, the court of public opinion has already connected -- the convicted him of being a sore winner. >> i think it's disgusting. i mean, they won the game. should be happy, shake hands and go home. >> i think that's why it went so viral and went so big. because it's embarrassing for him. >> can you imagine if he did lose what would happen? parents at a little league baseball game strike out as role models when a fight breaks out on the sideline. >> you just hear people screaming from the center field. at that moment they went at each other. >> stop it, guys! >> july 6th, 2012, in clum gusts
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but, georgia, little league is a big deal. home to the 1996 olympic softball game, the town has dozens of diamonds. >> major little league pride here. we have a number of kids playing in the majors right now from columbus. even our newspaper says locals in the majors. >> it's midway through summer but for little leaguers, it's the end of the baseball season. joe paul a reporter for the local paper, is covering the district championship game. >> the kids were playing every night. i was shooting photos for a gallery of a website. >> family and friends surround the field ass they take on the all stars. he runs the little league here and knows how important the win is to the players, but also to the parents. >> to the winner, it means going
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to the state tournament. losers go home. the fans, they were revved up on both sides, supporting their teams. >> the game is a shutout. northern defeats harris county 10-0. >> they were high fiving each other. everyone's so excited. >> to celebrate his son's win, a father on the sidelines, charles davidson, blasts a not so subtle song "all i do is win." >> all i do is win, win, win no matter what. kind of rub it in the faces of the losing team. >> bragging. all we do is win. mr. the harris county fans are not amused. >> one guy came to tell him to turn the music down and he said i'm going to mess you up and the other guy said, well, here i am
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and at that moment they went at each other. then you just hear people screaming from the center field. >> chaos erupts just over the fence with a fight between the family members of opposing teams. >> i seen punching and mostly pushing and shoving and wrestling. people jumping in trying to break it up. so everyone's there to kind of break it up, but they are also taking sides at the same time. >> the one on one quickly escalates in to a brawl. >> we get bickering between parents but nothing to this magnitude. >> wives worry about their husbands. >> i'm not in it, honey. i'm way on this end of it. i'm back here. i'm on the fringe. >> coaches bring the children together to shield them from the drama. >> that's stupid. >> we told them, nothing you
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did. you are all out here playing ball and they just got out of hand. >> soon, parents on both sides call the police. they arrested two men at the center of the argument on charges of disorderly conduct, charles davidson and ira king. ira pleads guilty sen a ordered to pay a fine while the charges are dropped against davidson. >> despite the fighting among the grownups, the kids showed great camaraderie. >> the kids showed remarkable sportsmanship. they had a group picture taken together. normally the winning team will pick up a banner that we give them and make a victory lap around the field. they invited the harris county team to go with them. >> in this instance, it's the
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kids who set the example for their parents. >> often said the only reason we need umpires for is for the managers and coaches. the kids will get out there and have a good time. coming up -- a crowd is stunned when an escape act turned to disaster. >> oh, my god. >> when "caught on camera, out of bounds" continues. has got it goin' on ♪ ♪ stacy's mom has got it goin' on ♪ ♪ stacy's mom has got it goin' on ♪ [ male announcer ] the beautifully practical and practically beautiful cadillac srx. lease this 2014 cadillac srx for around $319 a month with premium care maintenance included. ♪ is your tv powered by coal? natural gas?
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a daring stunt goes awry when a magician dangling 50 feet in the air catches fire. >> oh, my god! >> i was really scared that he was getting burned badly. or even die. >> where are we supposed to go? >> the blue tarp. >> the blue tarp. >> mt. clemmons, michigan. a suburb of detroit. every year the bat city festival draws thousands of people to the banks of the clinton river. >> jasen's the man! >> a closing act is the popular area magician jasen.
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>> jason had this brand idea. he really wanted to break through the local market in to a national spotlight. >> jasen is performing an extraordinary feat. one that has taken months to prepare. it's a well-known escape act created by harry houdini in the 1920s. it's escaping from a straight jacket hung upside down. but he wanted to take it up a notch. >> the twist on it on it was he was going to perform this stunt with the rope holding him upside down on fire. >> jasen's best friend joe chae chazzny works as his stunt coordinated and emcee for the evening. he remembers the day clearly. >> we were out on site really, really early. we had to run through so many things with so many people. >> jasen's entire family is in
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attendance. >> she's not nervous at all. >> how do you feel about your brother performing? >> very, very calm. >> they filmed the events of the day from a distance. the local news is there to cover jasen's story. as jasen gets ready to take the stage, the weather begins to turn. >> you maybe can't see, but there's a huge storm blowing in here. the wind is majorly picking up. and it's raining. ♪ >> night falls and the crowd is filled with anticipation. >> we were so concerned with putting on an entertaining show -- i'm telling you, it never occurred to us at any moment the rain would be a factor. a hurricane could have come to michigan, wouldn't have stopped us. >> but as the rain began pouring down, they need to make adjustments.
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>> because of the rain, we wanted to put a bit of extra fuel on the platform and on the rope. i knew the fire would burn through the rain as long as we had more fuel than we had rain. >> minutes away from the performance, jasen appears relaxed, even jovial. >> and they set the magician on fire too. >> just after 9:00 p.m., joe makes the announcement. it's show time. >> ladies and gentlemen, the man of the hour! let's hear it. make some noise! >> a professional camera crew records the action as jasen gets strapped into the harness and joe lights the rope on fire. meanwhile, jasen's sister in the audience can barely watch. >> oh, god be with you, jasen. i've got the hugest lump in my throat. >> the crane lifts jasen up
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side down, 50 feet above the river. >> so jasen's job was to get out of the straitjacket and detach himself from the harness. he would be free and clear from the rope and with any luck as he is brought down the rope burns through, showing a dramatic finish to a successful stunt. >> but things don't go as planned. immediately joe sees jasen struggling with the straight jacket. >> the canvas that these straitjackets are made from will shrink and tighten in the rain. it's just that much harder to get out of. >> jasens sister is getting impatient. >> go, jasen. my god, go. >> with seconds counting down until the rope burns through, jasen begins to break free. >> he's got his arms. come on! >> after three minutes in the air, jasen escapes from the
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straitjacket and the crowd goes wild. >> he's not done yet. he's got the rope. he needs to make his way to the safety rope in time before the rope burns through. >> now i'm really relieved. all he's got to do is get the clip off of the harness and we're good to go. we're home free. and he starts pulling on the thing and tugging on it. you know, twisting it around. what's going on? why can't he get the clip free? >> panic begins to set in as it appears jasen is stuck to the burning rope. he cannot unclip from the harness and no one's able to reach him. >> bring it down, bring it down. >> oh, my god! >> in a terrible turn of events, the flaming platform falls directly on to jasen and it seems he is burning alive in front of thousands of people including his own family. [ screaming ]
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>> i didn't hesitate a nanosecond and i told that crane operator bring him down. we needed to get him down and close to us. >> jasen's sister yells in desperation. >> get some water! >> i remember people yelling go faster, bring him down. but he couldn't. he was literally going as fast as he could. >> the crane operator lowers jasen into the river as firefighters battle the flames. >> i saw him lifeless hanging back. i was really, really scared. i didn't know what the situation was at that point. i knew it wasn't good. >> but then slowly joe chasny sees signs of life in his friend. it turns out the burning platform hung just centimeters
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from jasen's body causing minor burns. >> the only bruise i got was to the ego of a perfectionist who wanted to finish a stunt the way he wrote it on paper. >> ladies and gentlemen, let's give a big round of applause to jasen! >> i was so emotional. >> do you want to say anything to the fans? >> yeah. >> and now ladies and gentlemen, jasen magic. >> i put the microphone on, took a big swallow. thank thanked everybody for being there. apologized to everybody. >> whatever you do, don't hang upside down with a burning rope. you would be an idiot to. thanks again. >> jasen may have failed to complete the stunt the way he imagined it, but he does get the attention he had hoped for. and the entertainer in him will never let one disappointment
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stop him from going even bigger the next time. in fact, he performs this stunt again a year later over a bed of fiery nails. >> i think everybody enjoys just a little more. just give it an extra little kick. i think that's what the audience wants. i believe the next stunt is just going to have just a little bit more than this last one. coming up, a horrifying look inside one new york school when a teacher is caught on camera beating a student. >> nobody have no right to do that to anybody's children. >> and later, a grandma becomes a target of relentless bullying. >> oh, my god, you're so fat. >> yeah, you're fat. >> when "caught on camera: out of bounds" continues. [ car alarm chirps ] ♪ [ male announcer ] we don't just certify our pre-owned vehicles.
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caught on camera. a teacher goes too far when he disciplines a student with a beating. >> i thought when you send to school, this is supposed to be a safe haven. not knocking to the ground. >> june 2012. a reporter from "the new york daily news" ben chapman obtains disturbing footage from a high school in brooklyn, new york. >> i received an e-mail from a anonymous source identifying themselves only as angry administrator. >> the silent video is from three months earlier. and shows a 15-year-old student christoph john arriving in his high school.
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christoph's mom, diane. >> every child going to that school, they have a photo i.d. in the morning, when you enter the school, you have to scan the i.d. >> according to christoph, the school security dean and teacher stefan hudson asks him to step to the side when his i.d. doesn't work. christoph says when he tries to go through again, the dean becomes enraged believing he is acting disrespectfully. >> immediately when i looked at the video, i could tell it was in violation of the rules of the department of education, and probably it looked like something that was illegal, possibly criminal to me. we went to diane's house to show her the video of her son involved in this altercation with the dean. >> when i first saw the video, i got nervous. like my belly start hurting. my stomach left where it was and
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went somewhere else. i see the dean grab on to him and throw him down. picks him up, throw him into a table violently. picks him up again and throw him to the ground. >> at 5'5," 120 pounds, the 15-year-old boy is no match for the dean who is more than twice his size. >> they throw him around like a rag doll. so he was trying to get up. but he couldn't. the man had him in a lock down there. >> for christoph's mom, the only thing worse than watching the brutality against her son is knowing that when he came home that day and told her what happened, she didn't believe him. she says the school told her it was christoph who was aggressive toward a teacher. >> the same dean who was beating on my child is the same dean that called me. when my son came home, i asked him. i said what happened at school today? and he start telling me, but i
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said to him the school gave me one story and now you give me a different one. so i don't know who to believe. you don't think the school is going to lie to you. >> according to diane, the principal calls a few days after the dean to discuss the problem. >> the principal call and she told me there was an incident that happened in the school with christoph. she was going to look into it and get back to me. she never call me back. >> it's not until the reporter shows diane the beating that she realizes what happened. >> i was like, oh, my god. i can't believe this. i am pissed. that was my words. nobody have no right to do that to anybody's children. i don't care if my child was rude to you. you have no right putting your hand on him. >> christoph refuses to return to school for his sophomore school and moves to the native country of grenada to live with family. >> i know my child. i saw the change in him. he was not interested in school
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anymore. my son never behave like that before. >> they are suing the city of new york. the department of edge kag removes the dean from classrooms. following a hearing in march 20113, he is fined and ordered to attend an anger management course. in april, 2013, the case against the city is settled for $50,000. hudson begins the 2013 school year in new york city's absent teacher reserve pool. >> we should always believe our kids because, you know what, truth came out in the light. coming up, another case of bullying. but this time it's the kids who cross the line. >> you are ugly. >> when "caught on camera, out
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"caught on camera" vicious verbal abuse on a school bus brings a bus monitor to her breaking point. >> are you sweating? are you sweating? why is there water on your face? >> i'm crying. >> i thought it was only kids that got bullied. i really didn't think too much about adults. >> unless you have something nice to say, don't say anything at all. >> how about you shut the [ bleep ] up? >> june 18, 2012. greece, new york. for students at athena middle school, it's the last week of classes before summer break. 68-year-old karen kline is a bus monitor and has worked in the school system for more than 20 years. the bus driver asks her to supervise the back of the bus on the ride home from school. >> it was always the same kids that went to the back of the bus.
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every once in awhile, they'd make a snide remark. i told the bus driver i didn't want to go back there. >> oh, my god. you're so fat. >> out of earshot of the bus driver, the group of four rowdy boys start taunting karen. recording the entire incident on a camera phone. >> you're so fat. you take up the entire seat. >> when kids bully, what they're looking for is a vulnerable target and a big reaction from that vulnerable target. that's what makes bullying fun. >> triple sag? >> triple sag. >> triple z. >> look at her [ bleep ] stomach. >> but karen keeps her composure for the time being. >> i was trying to ignore them. i really was. >> you're a troll. you're a troll. you troll. >> ugly. >> the bullies seem thrilled by the notion that the video will later be seen online. >> so you're putting this up on facebook?
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>> they thought this was a cool thing. they thought they'd get a ton of likes on facebook and get laughs. they thought they'd be heroes. they weren't thinking about the consequences. they're not connecting real things. to those words. >> i'm going to [ bleep ] take a crap in your mouth. >> i'm going to break into your house and then steal everything. >> wait. there's nothing to steal. >> they were increasing their taunts and harassment. even their physical touching of her. they were doing anything in their power to get her to react. that for them would have been the prize. but she was not going to take the bait. >> karen. he touched you. >> he freaking just touched your arm flab. >> the barrage of insults and profanity continues on the bus. no one appears to stop it. >> you old ass. you're going to die of [ bleep ] diabetes because you're so fat. >> i tried to make it go away so it couldn't hurt me. >> she's going to get her freaking sweat all over it.
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she's going to pick out which kid she's going to rape next. >> but i gave up. >> and then one particular dig that karen will never forget. >> but you don't have a family because they all killed themselves because they didn't want to be near you. >> tragically, karen kline's son did commit suicide years earlier. whether the students were aware of that fact is unclear. >> i was trying to think if i had told them about rusty. i don't know. >> the ten-minute video of karen's devastating bus ride home quickly goes viral. people worldwide are upset and outraged. including one man 170 miles away in toronto, canada. >> i couldn't watch it until the end. i was so shocked. i was so appalled, i almost started crying when i saw her getting abused by that.
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>> immediately max decides to take action. he starts an online fund raiser to give karen the vacation of a lifetime. the goal, raise $5,000 in 30 days. >> i don't think anyone could have expected what happened. i could never have expected what happened. >> within three hours, the site reaches the goal. within three days, people donate more than $200,000. >> this whole internet community, 86 countries, they all came together to help this woman out. >> after 30 days of fund raising, the grand told is more than max ever expected. karen kline receives more than $700,000. >> i was blown away. i really was. i still am. >> karen retires from the school system and intends on taking that dream vacation. she also plans on donating to charities that are close to her heart. but karen's greatest treasure from this experience is the
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outpouring of love she receives from around the world. >> wonderful, wonderful messages. letters, i mean, books. can't even begin to mention all the wonderful people. it's great. >> karen's middle school tormenters and their parents issue an apology. the school takes action against the children. 50 hours of community service with senior citizens. completion of a bully prevention program, and suspension from school for one whole year. >> in this situation, they clearly took it too far. but you have to remember that most of these kids aren't really bad kids. 95% of kids who bully can be rehabilitated. that's really our goal. >> i really hope they've learned their lesson. i really do.
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