I just saw a clip on YouTube where the Labour party was described as those annoying kids at school always interrupting and I thought about those kids that were bullies as they too were one of the hates at school weren't they? So the late 60s and early 70s were my school years - senior school that is and I was one of the bullied, as I suppose a number of us were.
I like to remember that we did actually do something about it when we were able and the main thing was to get the school bully alone in a dark alley and belt the crap out of him. You just had to disguise yourself and use gang tactics. Some learned their lessons, some not. We had two Judo champs at school - no one knew as they'd just joined but the bullies got their comeuppance when they rounded on them and as I recall there were some hospitalised wounded.
When I left school I didn't have much to do with them but one guy decided to try it on and be a smart arse. As a trainee electrician I was a lot fitter than he may have remembered me and frankly he was no match and went down like a sack of spuds. I was pretty fit if I say so myself. I wouldn't mind being as slim and well built as I was back then.
Then I got to thinking and you hear things and when meeting up with old chums and chatting you also hear of the fate of these. Most as far as I can tell are dead. A few had particularly sticky ends, one died in a road crash and another got something horrible and died in his 20s. As far as I can remember there isn't one of them left now. I wonder if they were rotten inside and karma just sorted them out from the gene pool? You'd like to think so after all they made hundreds of lives miserable and they weren't really good for anything.
I imagine you might think me very harsh to say this and suggest that it is cruel but when you've been on the receiving end of this thuggery, threats and bullying it's good to hear that they eventually received their own medicine many times over!
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