3.16.11 - 4:00PM
- by
Alex Staub

'Zangief Kid' Owns a Playground Bully and Gets Suspended, Anonymous Backs Him Up

zangief kid casey heynes fights back against bullies Bullying has been a major topic in the media in the last year or so. People are becoming more aware that bullying is a real problem in schools today, and many proposed solutions have offered little relief to the victims. A recently popular YouTube video shows a victim fighting back, and raises questions about how schools should handle these situations.

In the video, Casey Heynes, who is being called "Zangief Kid" after a body-slamming Street Fighter character, takes two unnecessary blows to the face from a much scrawnier, needlessly aggressive bully before finally defending himself. And what a successful defense he employed! Justifiably pissed, "Zangief kid" handles this bully with one finishing body slam to the concrete, leaving the bully stunned from the blow.

Well, it's no surprise that the Australian school took swift action in suspending both boys. According to TMZ, the scrawny bully was suspended for 21 days and my new hero, Zangief Kid, was suspended for 4 days (which I still think is a little harsh for such a necessary retaliation). I think the heart of the problem is that bullying is making schools unsafe and teachers and staff are unfit to do anything about it, and I'm not the only one who feels this way.

The hacktivist group Anonymous, who have gained some notoriety in recent months for bringing down Mastercard and Visa websites (among others) to support Julian Assange and Wikileaks, are now directing their efforts toward supporting Zangief Kid in his time of need in a project called "Operation Fat Hero." The operation involves mass-emailing messages of support to Heynes' school and taking down the school's website via DDoS attacks.

There is also a rumor floating around Reddit that the bully's parents are taking legal action against the school and Casey Heynes. I don't see how their case could hold up in court with this video clearly exposing the other kid as the aggressor, but you never know. I think the best thing to do is to spread this video around so the world can decide who was at fault in this incident. What do you think about it?

related:// Adorable "Princess Boy" Becomes Anti-Bullying Mascot
related:// Urlesque's coverage of Anonymous

Email This

hot on the web

Comments

Add a comment

3.16.11

By scott

Highest Rank

A similar thing happened to my son when he was in grade school. Difference was, he and I had been studying martial arts for a couple of years by then. When Mr. Bully started hitting him my boy put a stop to it decisively. Nobody was badly hurt. Yet school authorities had only seen my son kicking ass on the other kid. He got suspended. But when the truth of the matter came out and the bully owned up to what he had done, all was forgiven. All I told my son was that he made a choice, I understood the choice, but that he may have to accept the consequences of that choice regardless.

3.16.11

By The Shockwave

Lowest Rank

"Well, it's no surprise that the Australian school took swift action in suspending both boys. According to TMZ, the scrawny bully was suspended for 21 days and my new hero, Zangief Kid, was suspended for 4 days (which I still think is a little harsh for such a necessary retaliation)."

You think a 4 day suspension for body-slamming a kid 2/3s your size onto concrete is too harsh? And how is this a "necessary retaliation." When you are considering self-defense, the idea is to use no more force than would be reasonably necessary in that situation. Heynes was slapped/punched twice. He could have walked away and gotten a teacher or security. There was no imminent danger to him. The entire situation could have been resolved without any offensive physical response on his part. Body slamming him was completely over the top and was a needless act.

3.17.11

By Pezza

Highest Rank

We have all been bullied at points in our lives, school time would be the most remembered times in all our lives.
I think there are two kinds of victims in bullying? The ones that are afraid to be hurt, and the ones that are afraid "to" hurt others.
It's very easy to say "he is bigger" but a threat is a threat.
If you look at this in UK law, he acted in measure to being threatened, after he made one attempt to disable his attacker, and succeeded, he didn't further attack him while he couldn't defend himself, which would have probably not have been the case if he had been hit to the ground.
He walked away which is why he did the right thing.
Today's society seems to reward problematic children, and all they do is grow into problematic adults, stop making excuses for them, and stop protecting them, even their own parents are caught up in this in the belief that their child is not responsible.
Responsibility lacks so much today, we should start to re enforce the responsibility of misbehaviour.
This WAS defence.

3.18.11

By Rafiki

Highest Rank

@ "the shockwave"

sure there was the use of unnecessary force, but you can be assured that the over the top display of strength by casey will insure that he is not bothered ever again. It's the Ender Wiggins approach, defeat an enemy so that he can never come at you again.

"Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too. So they'd leave me alone."

Getting the teacher would have solved the immediate problem but not the fact that Casey was being bullied. It would have shown that Casey required an authority figure, a third party to solve his problems.

While I'm upset that there was punishment on the part of Casey for defending himself, you have to realize that the punishment that Casey is receiving is a slap on the wrist. The school recognizes that Casey was merely defending himself, but it can't be seen to endorse physical responses to bullying. This is reflected in the 21 day suspension that the agressor received vs the 4 day suspension Casey received.

3.16.11

By hazmatsm

Highest Rank

Goood for Casey!! I don't believe he should be punished for defending himself, no matter the aggressors size. The little puke brought it on himself and he paid for it! The body slam may seem like overkill but "little punk" was clearly the aggressor as filmed by his friends (and as backup his freinds failed quite badly)- if more of these little pukes got slammed to the concrete how quickly would the bullying stop?

You take of yourself Casey- you did a good job!!

3.18.11

By fred

Highest Rank

If you noticed the kid was backed up against the wall and was out numbered, listen to the other kids they are also taunting the bigger kid, doesnt really look like he could have just walked and got a teacher, give me a break that kid got what he was asking for, he wanted to fight and wouldnt let the kid just walk away, you think the kid should have turned his back to the aggressive KIDS! and go get help, what until tomorrow or week later when they caught him again somewhere else??? I just wished the other kid who thought about jumping in and jumping the big kid would have, so, he also would have gotten his ass kicked! BULLIES DESERVE TO GET THEIR ASS KICKED!!!!!

3.16.11

By MissCommunication

Highest Rank

I was bullied for most of my primary schooling, although one school was particularly bad in that, where at other schools I would be bullied if someone saw me, at this school, they actively sought me out during all breaks, like they had nothing better to do than pick on me. It is a mob-mentality that these school bullies get, and they gang up on you.

I have always been a non-violent person, despite my mother's fantastic advice, which was "If someone hits you, hit them back ten times as hard, they'll never hit you again".

And at this school, even I retaliated. They back you into a corner mentally, until your fight or flight instinct switches onto fight and you protect yourself. You have to.

Everyone knows schools are shite at dealing with bullying. They counsel the victim in all the things they could be doing to avoid being bullied, as if it's their fault and their problem, and most of the time the bullies get off scott free.

I had a deal made with me, as a twelve-year-old child, that if I handed over my little notebook of evidence of what all the kids at that school were doing to me, the teachers would help me. If I'd known better at the time, I'd be as angry as I am now. What kind of person does that? They were no protection for anyone except their own butts, and it is pathetic.

Maybe if Casey stood up for himself more regularly he wouldn't resort to body-slamming, but he's got one thing right: Never start a fight, but always end it.

3.16.11

By dvmz

Highest Rank

RE: The Shockwave.
How foolish of you to think the retaliation was based on the punch\slap of a kid 2\3s his size. The act comes from the humiliation of it; being recorded by a classmate, a fellow classmate watching, in front of two female students and passer byes. Add that all up and physically its more like 6 against ONE, emotionally - unmeasurable.

The last thing a boy in this situation is thinking is to get a teacher. Hurting the bully was never his intention, having pride was at the forefront.

3.17.11

By Ertie Herculson

Highest Rank

Kids who are enduring bullying should be told to lay into their bullies until the bully's on the ground - and then put the boot in. Might help prevent the little creeps growing up to become wife-beating psychopaths if they learn at an early age that their bad behaviour has (physical) consequences.

3.17.11

By mike

Neutral

Al Peasland, one of the UK's leading self defence and personal safety experts (based in Milton Keynes) gives his opinion on the Casey Heynes bullying incident

http://al-peasland.blogspot.com/2011/03/casey-heynes-bullied-fights-back.html

3.17.11

By Warer

Neutral

Something like this happen in my college, they where playing soccer with no rules then the bigger guy made the same move in this video, the other guy got seriously injured with epileptic attacks and foam in his mouth

3.19.11

By Marky

Neutral

The funny thing is is that a faculty/administrator was walking towards the altercation and most likely saw the skinny kid (dhalsim) punching Zangief in the face. Yet the faculty member did nothing, and even then, did nothing when Zangief did the piledriver. The only thing she did was move people away from the scene of the fight while Zangief just walked away.

If anything, Zangief should be suing anybody who bullied him and even the school for just passively walking by and really doing nothing.

I would love to "bully" Zangief and get put into a piledriver. To me, that would be an honor because that Zangief kid is awesome.

3.17.11

By Zag

Highest Rank

Casey only got suspended, because under Australian (NSW) school policy - any high school student that hits another student has to be suspended for a minimum of 4 days, regardless of if it was in self defense or not.

The little punk, got the maximum suspension of 21 days. (I assume this was his first suspension - or else he could have been expelled from the school for instigating the fight)

The School was only following procedures when Casey got suspended.

That doesn't excuse them from their earlier duty of care to provide a safe environment however, but hopefully this helps people from outside of Australia understand WHY Casey got suspended as well.

3.18.11

By jason

Highest Rank

first, why is the smaller kids parents trying to get legal action? if anything CASEY should be the one doing that,also even if casey pulled out a knife and stabbed the kid, it would still be under self defence and casey would be safe. second, that little kid needs to learn some respect, this dude is bigger, stronger, and looks like hes angry too.
i had a similar scene to this when i was in year 8 (2nd form) and a year 6 came up to me and did similar. he walked away with a broken nose and i managed to get away with just 1 day suspention, but i have to say this is bullshit with the procedures, like who gives you the right to bully someone?
casey shouldnt take this bullshit, he has a massive fan club, maybe he should go public in a major way by going on the news.
lastly, there is a mob mentality thing in schools, the boys want to act skuxx in any way possible, i have seen kids who love kenny rogers and soccer go to hardcore rap and boy racing just because of this trying to be cool peer pressure thing.
if that kid did that to me now, i would not walk away, he would have a lot more places sore than his foot too, casey your restraint is better than mine obviously.
so the little kid can STFU and casey can be a hero, go casey!

3.24.11

By wow

Neutral

That little bully's punishment is that He's actually hated WORLDWIDE now. Pity the parents, and pity that little bully. He got what was coming to him. I'm sure he's not grinning now.

3.19.11

By Havoc57

Neutral

I want to know why the kid who shot the video was not suspended. The message that you can stand idly by and record bullying while also encouraging it and posting it on YouTube (no matter the consequences, which in this case fell in poor casey's favor) is worrying.