This week I decided to find a current news topic and give my general opinion on it as well as the facts and information on it. I had trouble finding the right topic to write about that I would enjoy writing about, which is why I am doing this last minute. I was scrolling through my current newsfeed on Yahoo.com and I came upon the title "Bullied 13-Year-Old Set on Fire Changes Thinking." Immediately I was intrigued and decided to read the article. Bullying always seemed like something that always happend at school, no big deal. Never did I think that someone could take bullying to such an extreme in the way the 17-year-old Joseph D. Gardner chose to do so. This 17-year-old took such extremes as to place death threats, but he took it to the next level. Joseph D. Gardner told a 13-year-old boy that he wanted to kill him then later set the boy on fire and sat back to laugh. That poor boy suffered first and second degree burns on his arms and face. But that's not all, he also had lung damage from inhaling fumes of gasoline, which Gardner used to set his victim on fire. Garder is currently facing a 10 to 30 year sentence. After getting the jist of this article it made me think that bullying really can escalate. If you or someone else is being bullied, even in the slightest way, you should really tell an adult or your parents. Don't let something like this happen. Bullying needs to be stopped! I'd really like to know your thought and opinions on this subject and also about the poor boy in Missouri.
I read this article and got my information from:
http://news.yahoo.com/bullied-13-old-set-fire-changes-thinking-163900142.htm
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