Update: People from the Internet raise money for the Old Lady Bullied by Kids on the bus.
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They raised $116,349 so far to send her on a dream vacation. The goal was $5000.
http://www.indiegogo.com/loveforkarenhklein?contribution_success=true
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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Its still good people out there
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I swear these parents born in the 1980's ain't worth ? when it comes to parenting and disciplining there children.
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She should be able yo retire of that lil change. If these Lil ? were black there would be cries for a race war.
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WTF?! Mother ? getting respiration for getting bullied now. ? 's wack.
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In Your Moms Room wrote: »WTF?! Mother ? getting respiration for getting bullied now. ? 's wack.
rite America is hella sensitive she really got broke off $117,000? wow lemme make a video of gettin bullied lls -
ummmmm for what?
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The posters at reddit are always raising money for people or pushing to make some sort of change.
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ItsKatBitches wrote: »First of all, lol @ respiration.
Secondly, dude just wanted to treat the woman to a vacay cause the video touched his heart...and apparently it touched the hearts of many people. It's nice to see there are still kind hearted folks in a world where even our children are evil little ? .
Ya'll stay hating..let that old fat lady live.
You owe her $10 now. -
Na. I can take you to Walgreens and you can get whatever you want. You can walk out like a boss with like 20 bags.
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Damn right. ? are like, who is that guy. He shut Walgreens down! I want his ? .
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Word, this is ? as ? .
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There should've been a limit, but whatever..
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I know everybody here can think of something else to do with that money.
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If the goal was $5,000 then that's what it should've been.
She's getting 117,000 for being bullied, she's gonna get more. I get it, people feel for her and that's cool and all but if there was a "goal" and it was reached, then that's it.
But like I said it's whatever, she wins in the end and what not. Taxes might be a ? . -
Hopefully, the fat ? dies soon; then it'll even out.
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These kids are ? up these days. When I was 12 y/o I can't imagine me or any or my peers terrorizing an old lady. Back then even the worse kids had some lines they didn't cross and some sense of respect. These kids now ain't ? .
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Lol@ Kat eventually smashing the white...
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Wait so ? are upset over the charity of strangers for an elderly lady but don't want welfare to be cut or limited?
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U smashed Marv? Lol
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Now they have set up a fund for the guy that set up the fund for the old lady.
http://www.indiegogo.com/love-for-max-too -
i'll take that abuse for 100k...
bet those same ppl were the ones who donated $ to zimmerman when he sprained his trigger finger...
somewhere a starvin kid is like WTF? -
In Your Moms Room wrote: »WTF?! Mother ? getting respiration for getting bullied now. ? 's wack.
lol...bish respirtory system was probably damaged -
That's so sweet. *cries*
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Okay, I'm all for disciplining your children, but giving money to someone like that when there are homeless people walking around and other issues that need immediate attention? Come on, now.
she's goin on anderson cooper tonight. it ain't like she's not gettin paid anyway.