To still be really upset about this ice bucket challenge thing?

[extremepie]

Ok, not the challenge itself but I was browsing the other day (on Facebook I think) and a story came up about a 14yr old boy with autism who got convinced to do the challenge by his 'friends' who then filmed it. Except it wasn't iced water they dumped on him it was..well excrement.

I just feel so so sad for that poor boy, it's a terrible thing to do to anyone but especially for someone with ASD who probably struggles to make friends anyway I just cannot imagine how humiliated and hurt he must have been and what effect it will have on the rest of his life.

It makes me absolutely boiling with rage to think of someone doing that to my son, who also has ASD.

Aibu to feel really affected by this story? I can't get it out of my head :(

That's awful

Surely that's assault or something? I hope the bastards that did it get their comeuppance.

I am going to sound like such a broken record here but WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE ON FACEBOOK? I never hear anything nice about it... why do people use it? Genuinely baffles me. It gives sick pieces of shit like this a platform for cruelty and idiocy... and then ordinary run on the mill people share it and get offended.. but then still continue to use it?

Oh no. :( I have an ASD son too and we have had bullying issues in the past. Can so easily see how he could get himself into a situation like that too.

Some people really are just utter bastards.

IThought - this sort of thing is precisely the reason I have deleted my FB account. That and the banality of the endless updates on what people have had for tea...

Aibu to feel really affected by this story? I can't get it out of my head

No YANBU. It's horrific and I hope the perpetrators get done for assault.

Apparently the police have 'completed an investigation' but it doesn't sound like anything has been done about it :(

The bullies videoed it and put it up on YouTube, I have not watched the video but apparently his parents have allowed it to stay up to raise awareness of bullying :(

My god that is terrible. Poor boy. Poor parents. What arseholes.

Stuff like this makes me next level angry. Makes me sick thinking about it, that poor boy is someone's baby.

they also post the footage where someone apparently breaks their neck (not watched it so i don't know if its true) revolting either way

How awful, poor boy , these were vile bullies, not friends. My dd has ASD and is 7 years old, and I worry for her, she can be very trusting. My heart breaks for that boy, and others like him who are subjected to violence and bullying. I want my dd to stay in her special school as its protective, in MS she may be subject to vile behaviour like this

My heart breaks yes the boy is somebodies baby, like dd is my baby and I dont want any harm to come to her, or to have people ridicule her.

I wish I hadn't opened this.

Some people out there truly are utterly cuntish.

That is a horrible story, no doubt, but I would like to point out a couple of things:

1 - this has no bearing on the ice bucket challenge. Bullies like this would have found another way of tormenting this poor lad. The ice bucket challenges may be a nuisance to some people but they've raised a lot of money for charity - please don't let this nasty incident reflect on what has done a great deal of good.

2 - it is also nothing to do with Facebook - I'm on Facebook, I don't see stuff like this come up and never have, because I'm not friends with people who share this stuff. It's a daft thing to blame social media - bullies are bullies, regardless of what/how they do things.

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE ON FACEBOOK?

Look, what has happened here is horrific, but please don't tar everyone on fb as moronic as those who did this. They would have done it, with or without fb, so let's stop blaming something that hold no responsibility & that most of us manage to use for good!

FWIW if I saw this on my feed, I would report it, delete it & delete the person who shared it.

I use fb to keep in touch with multiple people in the UK (I am in Australia), not that I have to justify it.

The problem here isn't facebook.

deakymom She didn't break her neck, and her injury wasn't caused by the challenge. That is just some very sensationalist reporting in a headline aimed to shock.

A woman did the challenge, got up, ran into her house & slipped on her kitchen floor, because she was wet. She hurt herself, but nothing broken in the report I read.

Oh that's just a disgrace. YANBU to feel really upset by it, especially not when you have a son with ASD and this sort of thing just plays on your mind. If it reassures you at all, the majority of people are not cruel and unkind and will treat your son with respect, as any human being deserves.

How absolutely horrible, that poor lad. Yes, some people are vile and some of them use fbook. However, I don't think bullying of this kind is unique to this challenge or to fbook.

Fbook can be a very positive, fun, social thing, it allows me to be in touch with loads of friends and family that live abroad or far away.

That's such a nasty thing to do to that poor boy. I hope they get their comeuppance

Regarding Facebook itself, it's just another website to me that I sometimes use.

What probably makes it seem worse than it actually is, is the endless bleating and moaning about it on Mumsnet.

Anyone would think people are forced by law to join up.

:(

That is all !

I've just seen this on the Mirror website.

It's awful. I have a son with ASD and stories like this make me so scared for his future. How can people be so cruel. The world is a horrible place, its heartbreaking.

That's fucked up.

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE ON FACEBOOK?

The same thing that's wrong with people in real life. You don't stop going outside because of a few assholes out there do you? Same with facebook. It's just people on an online forum.

this happened in Ohio, and in fact the police ARE taking it seriously, as is the school
www.wkyc.com/story/news/local/cuyahoga-county/2014/09/04/cops-seek-charges-in-revolting-ice-bucket-prank/15078655/

That's vile and disgusting. That poor boy :(

Differentname actually someone did break their neck and died doing it, it was a teenage girl, her cousin was stood on a balcony above her and the full bucket slipped out of his grasp and fell on her head, breaking her neck.