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20th March 2011, 00:25
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Casey Heynes, the bullied Year 10 student at Chifley College.
THE schoolboy who's become an internet sensation after turning the tables on a bully has told how he snapped after years of cruel taunts about his weight.
Sixteen-year-old Casey Heynes says he has been bullied nearly every day at his school, Chifley College, at St Marys, but could take no more when Year 7 student Ritchard Gale tormented and attacked him last Monday.
"All I was doing was defending myself". "I've never had so much support," he said during an interview with A Current Affair.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyiO30o4gkM
Casey reveals he'd been targeted by a new group of Year 7 boys who had started picking on him and teasing him about two weeks prior to the fight.
The Year 10 student said he found himself surrounded by the students when he went to get a school timetable before class.
As Ritchard backed him against the wall and started throwing punches, Casey said he felt scared and worried that others in the group would also start hitting him.
Eventually, he snapped, picking Ritchard up over his shoulder and throwing him to the ground.
The brawl was recorded on the mobile phone of another student who later posted the video online where he has earned "hero" status.
Asked if he was a superhero, he laughed and said: "No I wish I was."
The video, which was taken off YouTube on Tuesday, has gone viral worldwide spawning dozens of websites and facebook pages congratulating Casey for fighting back.
It also sparked a media storm with St Marys residents claiming television stations were offering up to $1000 for information about the fight.
Channel Nine won the race to sign up Casey after rival Today Tonight on Seven interviewed Ritchard's mother who said her son should apologise.
Yesterday, Ritchard was unrepentant. Asked whether he was sorry for attacking Casey, he bluntly replied: "No."
The issue has divided the western Sydney community.
"Good on him. I was so happy to see a bully finally getting what he deserved," one St Marys resident said.
"I don't condone violence but when kids stage an attack like that and record it to humiliate the victim it's wrong."
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/bully-victim-a-world-hit/story-e6frea6u-1226024845388
...Update...
Casey Heynes exclusive ACA Interview - Bully Victim Who fought Back
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBu1j7LUUac
A boy who shot to fame after turning the tables on a bully at his high school, body slamming the tormentor onto concrete, has told how years of bullying had pushed him to the edge.
Casey Heynes, a 15-year-old from Chifley College Dunheved Campus in Sydney's west, shot to fame after a video was released on the internet showing him body slamming a smaller boy who repeatedly hit him.
The video quickly became an internet hit, with hundreds of thousands of people watching it, many of whom were sympathetic to Casey's situation.
But speaking on A Current Affair last night, Casey said while he was glad of the recent support, last year he considered suicide.
"I just started to put myself down to that level and then all the crap kept on piling on," he said.
He said he had been tormented by bullies since he was in second grade and despite making friends early in high school, they had abandoned him and he was picked on nearly every day.
"I have been duct-taped to a pole ... They put the duct tape over my eyes first, and then dropped me down and duct taped me to a pole," he said.
Casey, who was taunted because of his weight, said he was an easy target because he had not in the past retaliated.
But that all changed after a smaller boy repeatedly hit him recently.
"He just came up out of nowhere and grabbed me by the shirt and then he punched me in the face. Then he went for a second hit, and I blocked it," Casey recounted.
"The third hit, I don't know if he connected, and then the fourth and fifth hit me, and then I actually snapped and grabbed him," he said.
Casey can be seen in the video advancing towards the smaller boy, picking him up and throwing him aggressively onto concrete ground.
The action has seen Casey dubbed "Casey the Punisher", or "Zangief" - the name of a fictional wrestler in a video game.
The bully sustained only a grazed knee in the altercation.
Casey's father Colin said he was proud his son has finally stood up to the bullying, and the support Casey had received had already changed his son's demeanour and self-esteem.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8226423/casey-the-punisher-tells-of-bullying
Casey Heynes, the bullied Year 10 student at Chifley College.
THE schoolboy who's become an internet sensation after turning the tables on a bully has told how he snapped after years of cruel taunts about his weight.
Sixteen-year-old Casey Heynes says he has been bullied nearly every day at his school, Chifley College, at St Marys, but could take no more when Year 7 student Ritchard Gale tormented and attacked him last Monday.
"All I was doing was defending myself". "I've never had so much support," he said during an interview with A Current Affair.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyiO30o4gkM
Casey reveals he'd been targeted by a new group of Year 7 boys who had started picking on him and teasing him about two weeks prior to the fight.
The Year 10 student said he found himself surrounded by the students when he went to get a school timetable before class.
As Ritchard backed him against the wall and started throwing punches, Casey said he felt scared and worried that others in the group would also start hitting him.
Eventually, he snapped, picking Ritchard up over his shoulder and throwing him to the ground.
The brawl was recorded on the mobile phone of another student who later posted the video online where he has earned "hero" status.
Asked if he was a superhero, he laughed and said: "No I wish I was."
The video, which was taken off YouTube on Tuesday, has gone viral worldwide spawning dozens of websites and facebook pages congratulating Casey for fighting back.
It also sparked a media storm with St Marys residents claiming television stations were offering up to $1000 for information about the fight.
Channel Nine won the race to sign up Casey after rival Today Tonight on Seven interviewed Ritchard's mother who said her son should apologise.
Yesterday, Ritchard was unrepentant. Asked whether he was sorry for attacking Casey, he bluntly replied: "No."
The issue has divided the western Sydney community.
"Good on him. I was so happy to see a bully finally getting what he deserved," one St Marys resident said.
"I don't condone violence but when kids stage an attack like that and record it to humiliate the victim it's wrong."
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/bully-victim-a-world-hit/story-e6frea6u-1226024845388
...Update...
Casey Heynes exclusive ACA Interview - Bully Victim Who fought Back
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBu1j7LUUac
A boy who shot to fame after turning the tables on a bully at his high school, body slamming the tormentor onto concrete, has told how years of bullying had pushed him to the edge.
Casey Heynes, a 15-year-old from Chifley College Dunheved Campus in Sydney's west, shot to fame after a video was released on the internet showing him body slamming a smaller boy who repeatedly hit him.
The video quickly became an internet hit, with hundreds of thousands of people watching it, many of whom were sympathetic to Casey's situation.
But speaking on A Current Affair last night, Casey said while he was glad of the recent support, last year he considered suicide.
"I just started to put myself down to that level and then all the crap kept on piling on," he said.
He said he had been tormented by bullies since he was in second grade and despite making friends early in high school, they had abandoned him and he was picked on nearly every day.
"I have been duct-taped to a pole ... They put the duct tape over my eyes first, and then dropped me down and duct taped me to a pole," he said.
Casey, who was taunted because of his weight, said he was an easy target because he had not in the past retaliated.
But that all changed after a smaller boy repeatedly hit him recently.
"He just came up out of nowhere and grabbed me by the shirt and then he punched me in the face. Then he went for a second hit, and I blocked it," Casey recounted.
"The third hit, I don't know if he connected, and then the fourth and fifth hit me, and then I actually snapped and grabbed him," he said.
Casey can be seen in the video advancing towards the smaller boy, picking him up and throwing him aggressively onto concrete ground.
The action has seen Casey dubbed "Casey the Punisher", or "Zangief" - the name of a fictional wrestler in a video game.
The bully sustained only a grazed knee in the altercation.
Casey's father Colin said he was proud his son has finally stood up to the bullying, and the support Casey had received had already changed his son's demeanour and self-esteem.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8226423/casey-the-punisher-tells-of-bullying