Is there a sure fire way to break someone, an adult, from

[Jamastiene]

poking a person in the shoulder and saying their name over and over again really really fast, constantly interrupting the person and generally aggravating the person beyond words?

When answering, please keep in mind that:
This is happening in a backward small town where the offender has family on the local police force and also relatives and friends in the administration at the shcool.
All higher level authorities have been contacted regarding this behavior with no results.

Thanks in advance if you have any advice on how to deal with bullying of this nature.

[CoffeeCat]

1. This is assault...

This is hard to believe that an adult is doing this. It sounds like something
I used to do to my sister, when I was 7!

I'm not an attorney, but this is assault. It's also harassment. A person does not
have the right to do this to another person.

When stuff like this happens, and you get no help from people who should be stopping
this behavior--I think you have to demonstrate that you are serious. I would send
registered letters to the perpetrator and also to the police/other authorities to whom
you have complained.

Get it down in writing (and site specific instances with dates) that you consider this
behavior illegal (find out exactly if this is assault or harassment), and that you
have brought this matter to the attention, but the activity has continued.

These people will know that you are serious, and you will also have in writing that
this is an issue and that nothing has been done. They will have the responsibility
to do something then. Because if they don't, they know that they are set up for a
lawsuit.

Can you get this yahoo on videotape--behaving like this? That would also help. This
person sounds dumb enough to do this while being filmed.

This is so infantile--what this person is doing. No one should have to endure such
menacing behavior.

[mopinko]

2. get a lawyer, or at least consult one.

most will give people a consult without charge. many will write a letter for a fairly small fee.

[EFerrari]

3. What about finding someone in the medical community

to talk to about it? A therapist or a GP? It does sound like assault and they might have some good ideas about it as well as some authority to back you up if that is needed.

[undergroundpanther]

4. When a kid in my school

flipped my lunch tray for 6 months the whole cafeteria would erupt into laughter I had nothing to eat,and I was humiliated over and over and I told all the teachers about it.They didn't help or intervene even when I asked, So one day I had enough, I stabbed the asshole in the back with a fork.

Bullying and assault being ignored can escalate after a time, if the victim of the aggravation is ignored and nobody stops the bully and the victim can't take the shit no more..

[CoffeeCat]

5. Panther...

I'm so sorry about your lunch tray. That makes me so sad and I'm sorry
you had to endure such bullying from an obvious thug with no heart.

If I was in school with you, I would have sat by you and shared my lunch
and we would have made fun of that tray-flipping jerk!

:hug:

[undergroundpanther]

6. Well

if it's any consolation the fork thing was the catalyst for the first real friend I ever made. My current roommate. He saw the incident and wondered what why etc,he was in some of my classes I was polite to him but never opened up because I didn't trust anyone,especially if they came off nice because by second grade I had been burnt by fake kindness too much to trust it. He asked my fourth grade teacher how can he convince me to be friends as he lived near her house,he asked her because he saw I was in pain and he was scared I might die or something.He told me this like a year ago.I was stunned since it took him trying to befriend me from second grade until middle school for me to finally trust him enough to open up.
He has been with me through thick and thin and we have supported each other through some unbelievable shit through the years.