Why can't people just leave other people ALONE?

<font color="purple">And by people, I mean high school kids who happen to ride my bus.

There is this one boy in our school, let's just call him "Bob" his oler (or maybe twin?) brother, we'll call him "Jim" and a girl on the bus who we will talk about later, whom I will dub the fake name "Ashley"

Let us just start off by saying that Jim by many means is not a very pleasent kid to be around. He has a bit of an attitude problem with other kids, and by no means is he all that "mature" in the sense that he still has alot of traditionaly childish behavior (ex: sucking his thumb) and it doesn't help that he has a bad habbit of stinking yp the buss. On a few occations I actualy began to think that it was a very good possibility that he was mentaly retarded to one degree or another. His brother Jim though, is very opisite of his brother. He still has a bit of a mean attitude, but he goes at great legnths to prove that he's really sharp. Because of the qualities mentioned above, they really don't have many friends. I guess they lump into the same group of misfits that I do, and it really doesn't bother me all that much.

With that being said, Bob get's picked on pretty badly. I thinks that's why he has a few of the issues mentioned above- they are really just a defense mechanism to drive away as many people as possible. It really doesn't help that when people pick on him that his brother Jim JOINS IN. At least when I was being picked on when I was little my brother had enough guts to actualy counterattack.

Which brings me to Ashley, yesterday, she was taking pictures on them (because she was sitting behind them) and making videos on her digital camera just for the sake of ticking them off. I just wanted to tell her off and to leave them alone, but I'm a bit sidetracked with the kid whom I sit next to.

But I have actualy heard some rumors about their backstory before. Apparently one reason why Bob is so messed up is because he saw his Dad commit suicide in order to avoid getting sent to prison. I think there was some sort of abuse involved in there too, but I don't remember it that well. In any case, this is just a rumor from their neighbor, and my brother's ex, so I don't know if it's true or not. Especialy considering that she has a marvelous track record for making up tall tales. Regardless, I either have too little nerve or too much compassion or any combination thereof, to ask if it was.

I was bad enough that they picked on them (I don't care how repulsive they can be- it's just not right) but now knowing what these kids really are going through if said rumor is true then that's just plain aweful.

Which brings me to my question: Why can't people just leave eachother alone?</font>