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The victim (Bobby the Bully) - was he the way he was portrayed IRL


Quite interested to know.

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Read book.
http://www.amazon.com/Bully-True-Story-School-Revenge/dp/0380723336


This is who I am. This is what I know. Im never gonna stop. Fv!k what they think! -Kuza

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No. Read what this woman wrote on her blog. Make sure to read the comments as well. Sorry I don't know how to make it clickable.

http://lisarpetty.com/bobby-kent-and-my-anxious-parenting/

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Is it possible that as a child, Bobby really was a nice kid, but if he actually WAS a closeted gay guy, that could have caused him to lash out as he grew older, especially if he was taking steroids?
One of the commenters on the blog post mentions Bobby giving her a ride in a truck, but according to the book, Bobby drove a 1983 Camaro. Is it also possible that the Camaro was his second car after the truck?

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what is overlooked in all of this, what is totally not even hinted at in the movie or with the casting, and not said much of in the book, although it is fair for the book to mentioned the bare facts and then leave that to the reader's conclusions, is Bobby's cultural background..
Bobby is totally nothing like Nick Stahl..
His cultural background, and that of his father, inevitably fed into who Bobby was and this whole play.. I do not know if he was closet gay or something exactly, it would be one way to explain some of his bizarre continual bumping of the subject in sick and depraved ways..There may be other ways to explain it, though...

apart from to make money, who wants to make some kind of appalling solo Gay porno movie...even after it is clear that their crap movie is not going to be taken up by the local adult video merchants and they are not going to make zip out of it, they persevere showing the movie around and re-watching it themselves...why would you show such material to a girl you were actually getting busy with at the time ?
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totally read the book..

I have yet to see movie, have it but have not watched it, but he is a major piece-of-work as described in Schutze's book..

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