Grandly played.

Yeah, school systems form of justice is pathetic. Back in elementary school I got suspended for being in the vicinity of a kid being bullied, (I despised that kid who was being bullied, he was one of those 'troubled' children who purposely went around aggravating people to get attention and likely grew up to be a machoist. Purposely shoving people from behind and insulting them and the like JUST so someone would actually talk to him.) Needless to say, I hated his guts, and was in no hurry to go tell the teacher that he pissed someone off again and was getting slugged for it.

Apparently the principal decided that it was my moral duty to do so, and by NOT doing so I was as guilty as the guy throwing the punches, and the guy for provoking the guy throwing the punches. He actually gave a bullshit reasoning of 'If someone robs a bank and you don't try to stop it, you are as guilty as the robbers.' Which of course, makes no sense what so ever. All three of us got a weeks suspension if I remember ._.

It sounds like French Civil Law, which -- if I remember right -- presumes the accused guilty and places the onus on him to prove innocence in court.

In the French speaking province of Quebec (in Canada), it's against the law not to render assistance in situations like the one you describe.

I know someone rather like the kid you saw bulled in school. He too was a "troubled" individual who tended to act aggresively to get picked on. It was a form of attention. But he went around all his life with a chip on his shoulder, feeling that the world was out to get him! Well, sure it was! He could be terribly obnoxious, and never admitted to being wrong about anything. Did he grow up to be a masochist? Yeah. Also self-destructive, paranoid, and the only life he was able to make for himself was on FurryMuck.

*chuckle* I've always had more fun in back of and behind the TV than in front of it. I can't begin to count the number of times I took that old RCA in our living room apart. ^_^