Bullied Bus Monitor Campaign Nets $700K For Woman Who Verbally Abused in Shocking YouTube Video

The bullied bus monitor video became a huge internet outrage sensation last month after a clip of Karen Klein, an elderly woman from Upstate New York, spread around the web due to the horrible verbal bullying it showed her peacefully enduring at the hands of a gaggle of teen boys on a school bus.
The bullied bus monitor clip was titled “Making the Bus Monitor Cry,” and the original video has garnered more than 8.3 million views on YouTube.
While the bullied bus monitor video initially was a very sad thing for the internet to behold, some very good things came of it for the bullied bus monitor herself — the internet opened up their digital wallets and took up a vacation collection for the quietly abused old lady. By late last month, the “vacation of a lifetime” kitty had grown to $650,000, an outpouring of kindness that Klein and many others found moving and surprising.
Klein had been making very little in her clearly thankless job, and the internet was proud of itself for giving the older woman — who had endured tragedy in the years leading up to her viral fame — a little bit of money to retire on after her bad luck was publicized. And now that donations have closed up, another $50,000 has been added to the fund, closing it out at a respectable $700,000+.

According to ABC, organizer Max Sidorov of Toronto said that he was blown away by the fundraising’s success, being as he only intended to raise $5,000 for the bullied bus monitor’s vacation fund:
“I think that people just love rallying around a great cause, especially helping someone in need or who has been abused or can’t stand up for themselves,” Sidorov said by phone from Toronto on Friday. “It just shows there are so many great people in the world. It warms my heart to see that.”
The bullied bus monitor herself was not available to comment to press Friday, but one can only assume that the otherwise disappointing incident wound up being a boon for her — and that she no longer has to sit quietly while bratty teen boys give her the business.


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Jul 22, 2012
"Teen boys… ", girls too…
Jul 22, 2012
I hope this fat piece of shit dies of a massive coronary. Three quarters of a million dollars to some old lady who simply couldn't ignore some childish insults?
Jul 24, 2012
Such bull.
Jul 27, 2012
WOW THAT LADY WENT THROUGH HELL BUT IT SURE PAYED OFF!I'M HAPPY FOR HER SHE DOESN'T NEED TO EVER WORK FOR THEM AGAIN AND THOSE TEENS NEED SEVERE PUNISHMENT FROM THEIR PARENTS TO LEARN HOW TO RESPECT THEIR ELDERS! CAUSE I PROBABLY WOULD HAVE CAUGHT A CHARGE HMMMM ……LOL
Jul 28, 2012
I feel bad for the woman but $700.000. REALLY? There are children with cancer then need this money much more then her! She could do fine with $100.000 and live well. Do you know how many cancer children could be helped with the other $600.000. I personally think it is a waste. She probably won't even live long enough to spend half of that. She will live in the lap of luxury while 100's of children die of cancer. We all have been bullied in way or the other. I am sorry if you do not like my opion but I have found alot people agree with me!
Jul 28, 2012
How about you donate all of your stuff and then we'll talk.
Jul 29, 2012
As a matter of fact I just held a HUGE sale of my own personal stuff and did very well for the children. ALL the money I made went to them. And might I add I am not rich in money what so ever.I am rich in important ways. Being kind and helping others it much better then money!!!!!!! I have a healthy son and I would not want to be in those parents shoes. You do not know me. But trust me the directors at The Sunshine Kids Foundation do. But I am finding the rich don't give it is the people who cannot afford it that give. Between two of us we have now raised over $4,000 in just a few months for The Sunshine Kids!!!!!!!!!! And trust me this was some of my best stuff I sold to raise money for these wonderful children who really need the money. So yeah buddy, now we can talk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jul 29, 2012
Who are you to say when someone has too much money? if you only have exactly as much as you need to survive and give the rest to the needy then, fine enjoy your soapbox you're a better man than I, but I doubt that's the case.
Jul 29, 2012
I can tell I am a better person then you IN this respect. Because your first reply, you came off as a jerk. And your second. I have been collecting so much for so many years, I am almost 60 and do not need these fine things any longer.I have enjoyed them for many years. I have just enough to be comfortable for the rest of my life which may not be much longer. And I have yet seen moving fan go to a graveyard. So buddy until you know the facts of why I am doing this then maybe you will cool down and open your eyes. YOU DO NOT KNOW ME!!!!!!!! AND BY GOD DON'T ACT IS IF YOU DO. You say you doubt that's the case. Why would you say something so rude when you DO NOT know my situation. There are few people still in this world that care more about others then themself's. Obvously you don't know any. But getting bullied. I bet you have been there for sure. I bet everyone has at one time or another in their life. Get over it!!! She should get something from the school, I do agree with that. She should have been protected and wasn't. BUT $700.000. REALLY???
Jul 29, 2012
Margo Selvig Admittedly I didn't read your whole thing. Sorry if you're really going through all that but you also don't know me.
Jul 29, 2012
Your right I do not know you. But you came off as a jerk. I can't put it any other way, sorry. All I am saying is I think this woman getting $700,000 for being bullied on a bus is a bit much. And I think there are better ways to use this money. Which children with cancer is my passion. And abused animals. Especially dogs. I really do not understand people that abuse precious dogs. So many of them need a home. I am not saying I am telling people how they should spend their money. That is their business. But it rubbed me the wrong way when I say one woman getting so much. She was not hurt that bad. She was not raped and beaten for crying out loud. Yes it is terrible that she was treated that way and the kids should be punished. Your the one that said it, when I start giving my stuff to donate we can talk. So I am talking. My choice is to donate to these cancer children. The little bit of time I have left on this earth, I want to spend my time helping these children so they can grow up and have a great life like I did. I have been very blessed thru the years. And I was even bullied back in the day more times then I care to count. But it seems all our money is going to the wrong places. Our tax money is being used incorrectly. It seems that people from other countries get more then us Americans. I paid for college. But all the foreigners got college free. In Michigan if you owned a party store and you were American you paid taxes. But if you were not you got tax free for 7 yrs. And then they would just put the store in a family members name and kept getting there business tax free. And don't even start me with the illegals. It really goes on and on. I have watched this country go into a crap hole over the yrs. Our tax dollars are being mis-used all the way around. It is not a soapbox for me. It is my choice to give back. I may not be here much longer but with my help I hope that just maybe one child or more can be given the chance to do things they would not otherwise get to do. Or live longer then they otherwise would. That is what life is all about!!!!!!!
Jul 30, 2012
Good for her! keep away from that place. she deserves it. retire ans enjoy the rest of your life.
Jul 30, 2012
How do you know she won't give some of it away? While you have done a good thing, remember that she is at the end of her life and has no resources or health to earn more money. I wish her well, don't hate.
Aug 10, 2012
margo, your comments are terrible.You have no right to judge what other people do with their money or who they give it to. Your self righteous attitude is appalling.I have never read a comment that was more lacking in compassion than what you wrote about Karen Kliein, right down to saying she doesn't deserve a good life because she is old and she is going to die soon. im disgusted by your cold, nasty mean spirited way of thinking and i am not impressed by your boasting about how noble and charitable you are.People who really care, give without telling anyone they are giving and they don't begrudge another person a little bit of happiness. enjoy you holier than thou bitter life.
Aug 10, 2012
Margo Selvig Margo Selvig are you demented? you actually said, "She was not raped and beaten for crying out loud." Are you so ignorant that you have no comprehension of the fact that mental and verbal abuse can have a longer and more devastating impact on a human being than physical abuse.Where do you get off judging the suffering of another? Did you actually watch the video and listen to the kids tell Karen that shes is so fat her relatives want to kill themselves. How do you THINK Karen felt, knowing that her son DID KILL HIMSELF 10 YEARS AGO. SHE PROBABLY FELT LIKE HER HEART HAD BEEN TORN OUT. You shameful posts are the only comments out of thousands that complain about the wonderful generosity the world showed to Karen. Congratulations on being the only person to begrudge someone a chance at a better life. AND BY THE WAY, KAREN KLIEN HAS SAID SHE INTENDS TO GIVE MOST OF THE MONEY AWAY TO FAMILY MEMBERS AND THOSE IN NEED. WOW, YOU REALLY ARE A JERK, MARGO. now get off your soap box and let the rest off us celebrate the good fortune of a very nice lady by the name of Karen Klein.
Aug 16, 2012
People like these brat kids need to be reclassified as vermin an treated accordingly