“Did ya murderize<\/em> it?”<\/p>\n So queried an 8 year old kid when I was 7. He wasn’t talking to me, but to one of our group. We were a crowd who sometimes hung out because we lived close together on the base. We didn’t know all of each others’ names. However, we all knew him.<\/p>\n At 8 years old, the kid was an accomplished bully and sadist. Murderize<\/em> was, so far as I know, his own word, personally invented. He loved to murderize defenseless entities like earthworms and emotionally weak kids. Murderize<\/em>, referring to bugs and worms, meant kill<\/em>, but when it came to kids, it meant traumatize. The word lit his eyes when he said it.<\/p>\n I won’t put a name to him, but I’ll call him Bully0, because he was the first true bully I met, and probably the most skilled one I’ve ever known. When we were all playing happily together, he’d find a way to set apart one or two kids and turn the others against them. Not everyone would turn – some just took the sidelines – but there’d be enough grief to please him. I was the victim, sometimes.<\/p>\n Bully0 was not allowed to ride a bike when I first knew him, for reasons no one would say. Perhaps nothing was safe in his hands. A few days after I met him, I saw him, in his garage, say to his younger brother, “See your old tricycle there?”<\/p>\n \n“Yeah.”<\/p>\n “I can make it into an instrument of killing.”<\/p>\n “Now way,” his brother protested.<\/p>\n Bully0 grabbed the trike and drove it a few feet. There was a worm on the garage floor which he drove over repeatedly, forward then reverse, his head thrown back, laughing.<\/p>\n “You killed nature!” his brother cried out. Seeing the instant tears in his brother’s eyes due to the sudden cruelty, Bully0 was delighted.<\/p>\n Sometimes, watching a situation where he’d caused a fight between other kids, he’d go off to the side and announce, to no-one you could see, “I love it when things get murderized!”<\/p>\n I never saw Bully0 put his hands on anyone. He truly was a psychological predator, far above physical violence. He might be the most cunning person I ever knew, with how he could control people.<\/p>\n Last I saw Bully0, I was 8 and he was 9. He moved away from that base before I did. I wonder what became of him?<\/p>\nJack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Self-tutoring about people and events from the past: the tutor mentions a colourful character. “Did ya murderize it?” So queried an 8 year old kid when I was 7. He wasn’t talking to me, but to one of our group. …<\/p>\n