http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_bullying_one_town

Some of you may have already read this article but I started me to thinking about times when I was bullied while going to school. If you were bullied, I would like to read your story and how your bully was stopped.

When I was in the 8th grade I was bullied every afternoon on the school bus by a male high school senior. There were 3 students he was really mean to and regardless of where we sat, he found a way to get behind us and hurt us; we were terrified of him. He finally started stabbing us in the shoulders with sewing needles. One afternoon he stabbed me in the shoulder and looked toward the back of the bus so I would think it was someone else. I got up with a geography book, held it with both hands, and smashed his nose all over his face when he turned around. Blood was dripping off his chin, someone told the bus driver who stopped the bus and chewed me out and let the abuser go. He came back to our house that night and told my dad what I did and said that I couldn't ride the bus for a whole week. I showed Dad my left shoulder and it had 4 infected places where I had been stabbed with needles. He told the driver that I would be on that bus the next morning and he would "stomp a mudhole in him" if he refused to let me ride. Then dad went to the abusers house and called him and his dad out and laid down the law about him hurting me. He didn't stop there, he went to the School Superintendent and related the story to him. From that time on the bully had to hitchhike to school every day and never bothered me again. He quit school after a few trips of hitchhiking in downpours.