Update: People from the Internet raise money for the Old Lady Bullied by Kids on the bus.

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edited June 2012 in For The Grown & Sexy
They raised $116,349 so far to send her on a dream vacation. The goal was $5000.
A diverse group of Reddit fans, Twitter users, Facebookers and just plain emailers banded together Wednesday to raise more than $60,000 to send a beleaguered bus monitor on vacation.
The story unfolded when Max Sidorov, a recent college graduate in Toronto, came across video of Karen Klein, a 68-year-old bus monitor at a middle school in upstate New York, being tormented by a pack of boys who appear to be 12 or 13.
The video, which one of the boys posted to Facebook, goes on for an excruciating 10 minutes with the kids calling Klein fat and poor. They ask her why she is sweating so much. They hurl expletives at her. They ask her if she has herpes.
It's not easy to watch.
The video made its way to Reddit, which is where Sidorov found it.
"I saw the video and I had the idea of helping her," he said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. "The best thing that came to mind was starting a fundraiser to send her on vacation."
And so at 11 a.m. Wednesday Sidorov launched a flexible funding campaign on the crowd source fundraising site Indiegogo.
"I’m not sure why these kids would want to bully a senior citizen to tears, but I feel we should do something, or at least try," Sidorov wrote in a note on the site.  "Let's give her something she will never forget -- the vacation of a lifetime!"
Three hours later he had raised $1,300. Within five hours he had reached his $5,000 goal. By the time of this writing, he had raised close to $60,000.

http://www.indiegogo.com/loveforkarenhklein?contribution_success=true
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