Florida girl, 12, commits suicide after she was bullied online: sheriff

[IrishAyes]

35. Let me tell you something

Old people can be just as vicious and stupid, particularly if they were raised on hate and aggression. None worse than small town MidWest xenophobes. For financial reasons I retired to one of the most affordable areas of the country; however, what I saved in $ by necessity, has come out of my hide. There are some halfway decent people here, but I was set upon by the other kind like a pack of mad wolves, especially because I happen to be a wholly different political person than they've ever had to deal with up close and personal. I won't go into all the gory details, but believe me it would've caused a lot of people to check out early. And if you think the better types stood up for me in any meaningful way, except for the editor of the local weekly paper (only because he's notorious for printing EVERYBODY'S letters) then you got another think coming, my dear.

Old people are just as bad. And they've had many more years experience sharpening their long knives. Oh, I don't feel like the Lone Ranger at all. This town which proudly boasts it's the real Mayberry and yet prides itself in general on how mean it can be, has a high rate of suicide. People here have been eating each other alive for well over a century and a half.