Casey Heynes
You've probably seen the vids of this kid, they've been making the rounds of the net for a few days now. Casey Heynes, a big-boned kid from Australia, was being bullied by a group of other kids at school, and finally had enough. As a mom, I applaud Casey. He did what he had to, he ended the fight as best he could and still walk away, and what happened? He got suspended for fighting.
What I find interesting is the fact that the bully had his friends record the 'fight', no doubt because he intended to post the vid online as a "how to kick a fat kid's ass" vid that he could watch over and over again and have other bullies praise him for. One problem. He picked on the wrong kid.
Casey is not fat. He is big-boned. Believe it or not, there is a difference. Fat means you are overweight for your height/age. Big-boned literally means what it says - your bones are simply much bigger/thicker than others, therefore you have more weight spread across your body. The body mass is scaled up just as the bone size is. (I bet that Casey here can run just as fast as the little worm who was picking on him.)
My husband is big-boned, and yes, his ankle is about the thickness of my upper arm. Every time he goes to a doctor for an ear infection, they start talking about his weight and blood pressure and all that crap, and he has to remind them, sometimes multiple times, that he's perfectly healthy except for his damn ear infection. One doctor refused to even look at his ear until he'd done a blood pressure test and hubby had to tell him rather forcefully that his weight was not the problem, his damn ear was. Hubby is perfectly healthy. He may weigh more than would be healthy for a regular man his height, but when you add in the bone size, it all evens out.
Why am I going on about this? Because Casey was able to do what he did so easily because he has so much more muscle than the other kid. He was able to pick the little snot up up in the air and swing him around so easily because his body is used to carrying and lifting so much more weight than little snot's pencil-thin legs are. If you've watched The Biggest Loser 2 seasons ago, with Michael, you would have seen that they showed it in a way that was easy for everyone to understand. They had Bob (one of the trainers, a pretty thin guy) put on a weight bag that made him weigh as much as Michael, the heaviest contestant they'd ever had. Bob could hardly stand, and expressed his amazement at the strength of Mike's legs for being able to carry that much weight.
So next time those little wieaner-boys decide to pick on someone, it probably won't be a "fat" kid. They'll have learned their lesson, hopefully.
A beautiful thing.
More info here:
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sydney-nsw/bullied-boy-at-chifley-college-dunheved-campus-suspended-after-fighting-back/story-e6freuzi-1226023526921
What I find interesting is the fact that the bully had his friends record the 'fight', no doubt because he intended to post the vid online as a "how to kick a fat kid's ass" vid that he could watch over and over again and have other bullies praise him for. One problem. He picked on the wrong kid.
Casey is not fat. He is big-boned. Believe it or not, there is a difference. Fat means you are overweight for your height/age. Big-boned literally means what it says - your bones are simply much bigger/thicker than others, therefore you have more weight spread across your body. The body mass is scaled up just as the bone size is. (I bet that Casey here can run just as fast as the little worm who was picking on him.)
My husband is big-boned, and yes, his ankle is about the thickness of my upper arm. Every time he goes to a doctor for an ear infection, they start talking about his weight and blood pressure and all that crap, and he has to remind them, sometimes multiple times, that he's perfectly healthy except for his damn ear infection. One doctor refused to even look at his ear until he'd done a blood pressure test and hubby had to tell him rather forcefully that his weight was not the problem, his damn ear was. Hubby is perfectly healthy. He may weigh more than would be healthy for a regular man his height, but when you add in the bone size, it all evens out.
Why am I going on about this? Because Casey was able to do what he did so easily because he has so much more muscle than the other kid. He was able to pick the little snot up up in the air and swing him around so easily because his body is used to carrying and lifting so much more weight than little snot's pencil-thin legs are. If you've watched The Biggest Loser 2 seasons ago, with Michael, you would have seen that they showed it in a way that was easy for everyone to understand. They had Bob (one of the trainers, a pretty thin guy) put on a weight bag that made him weigh as much as Michael, the heaviest contestant they'd ever had. Bob could hardly stand, and expressed his amazement at the strength of Mike's legs for being able to carry that much weight.
So next time those little wieaner-boys decide to pick on someone, it probably won't be a "fat" kid. They'll have learned their lesson, hopefully.
A beautiful thing.
More info here:
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sydney-nsw/bullied-boy-at-chifley-college-dunheved-campus-suspended-after-fighting-back/story-e6freuzi-1226023526921