A recent video of bus monitor Karen Klein being verbally abused and harangued by a handful of students made its way to the Internet. The kids mocked her looks, her weight and speculated what it would be like to kill her. One said, “You don’t have a family because they all killed themselves because the didn’t want to be near you.” That comment stung worse than the rest: Klein’s oldest son committed suicide a decade ago. In the video, Klein cries and tells her tormentors, “Unless you have something nice to say, don’t say anything at all,” to which one of the boys said, “How about you shut the (expletive) up?” Since then, of course, the video has gone viral, and a fund—initially intended to raise $5,000 to give Klein a nice vacation—has blossomed into a $600,000 nest egg. The boys have apologized (through police intermediaries), and Klein has no plans to stop her bus monitoring duties. The kids weren’t bad, she told CNN’s Anderson Cooper, “not deep down; but when they get together, things happen. Some things worse than other things.” (CNN, Salon.com, “Good Morning America“)