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This happened to someone in my hometown. it started of as a rumor that someone was going to get an after school beating, and Chinese whispers made this guy into the devil incarnate. Until virtually the entire population of two secondary schools were after this poor bugger. Most of the people were just there for the spectacle. But one against one thousand? He ended up running across the surrounding countryside just to get away.

To hear the same story from the point of view of the man on the receiving end of a witch hunt is sobering.
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Tue 19 May 2009, 15:46, Reply)