A troll who had been bullying the McCanns and was interviewed by Sky in the street has been found dead in a hotel room after fleeing her home after being targeted. Sad she is dead, but, as she said when confronted by Sky, you're allowed to troll people. She thought she had every right to be vile on social forums...well other people exercised the same right. Live by the sword etc.
http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/cricket/29500839 Bullying takes on many forms - from the physical as in the case illustrated by RSS to the more subtle of being ignored when you put forward a point of view, as in KP's case in the England dressing room. I can empathise with his sentiments. If your humour and personality does not fit in with the place where you are working, socialising or whatever you can certainly be made to feel an outsider.
Team spirit is a wonderful thing, but can turn into a clique if you are excluded. KP is a wonderful batsman...a loss to the England team.
I have only just read the BBC account but it does seem as if there was a powerful clique (bullying unit) in that England dressing room who took exception to anything that KP had to contribute to team input. It may have been their humour or general conversation that KP did not buy into, hence he was more comfortable chatting to the South African team in that particular series.
Managed to miss my first session at uni. Didn't go out last night, wasn't up late - none of that. Set an alarm on my phone, plugged it in, turned the switch on. Woke up having missed the session. Turns out that plug socket next to my bed, doesn't work properly. Currently weighing up whether to: A) Say nothing and pretend it never happened or B) Go along to the course leader's (who took the session) office and explain, then suggest I can do the same session with the second group this afternoon.
Not read the account, but knowing one of the coaches at Sussex, I can assure you the answer to your question is yes.
[video=youtube;SRHoPL0WtdM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SRHoPL0WtdM[/video] Made me laugh out loud.
No excuse, Just because she trolled the McCanns doesn't make it right for her to get abused as well. Two wrongs don't make a right after all, who knows why she did it maybe a mental illness or maybe lonely so wants attention. Yes what she did wasn't right ( even tho I think the McCanns deserve a bit of negative reaction to them as they are partly to blame) but until we know why she did it and what abuse she recieved I can't agree with you. Who knows if some nutter didn't target her in real life with calls and going to her home.
Having read her tweets, she comes across more as a conspiracy theorist, and someone convinced that the McCann parents are guilty as hell, rather than a really, really vile troll who was directly targeting people. After all, the McCann's aren't even on Twitter, so she can't 'troll' them in the sense that she can't directly make any contact with them, and she never did. I don't like the way Sky doorstepped her, either.
Not having that. She taunted someone from the shadows and thought she'd never be exposed. When confronted she said she had every right to do that...well the media had the right to ask her to explain herself. In fact they gave her a platform for her views. They were not responsible that she couldn't handle it when it's dished out (in a far more polite way than she did). Perhaps she could have learnt how to behave with dignity from the McCanns. I also feel that the McCanns shouldn't have left their children alone, but who hasn't taken chances and got away with it and the (probable) death of their child is punishment enough.
