A profanity-laced video of middle school students in upstate New York verbally abusing a bus monitor is sparking an outpouring of support as strangers worldwide rally to her side.

In the video, the students taunt Karen Klein, 68, with a stream of profanity, insults, jeers and physical ridicule.

Some boys demand to know her address, saying they want to come to her house to perform sexual acts and steal from her.

The bullying continues unabated for about 10 minutes in the video, reducing Klein to tears as a giggling student jabs her arm with a book in one instance.

"Oh my God, you're so fat," one says.

Klein, a bus monitor for the Greece Central School District, said she tried her best to disregard the harassment. The students involved attend Greece Athena middle school.

"I tried to ignore it ... I didn't hear some stuff and tried to shut them out," Klein told CNN affiliate WHAM.

She said one comment from a boy aboard the bus was especially painful. He tells her that she does not have family because "they all killed themselves because they didn't want to be near you."

Klein's oldest son took his own life 10 years ago, according to the affiliate.

CNN attempts to reach all parties involved Wednesday were unsuccessful.

The video prompted an outpouring of support and a fundraiser by an international crowd funding site that had gathered more than $100,000 by early Thursday.

"Let's give Karen a vacation of a lifetime. Let's show her the power of the internets and how kind and generous people can be," the fundraiser's organizer said on the website. The organizer did not respond to CNN requests for comment on the website.

The school district said its bullying team and the local police are conducting an investigation.

Welcome to America!

Bullshit.

Yes, cruelty happens every day around the world, and many of the victims receive neither justice nor compensation, which is unfortunate. But screw it, this time, it was caught on video, people are upset by it, and they want to give the poor lady a few dollars as an illustration of humanity's capacity for compassion. People's feelings and visceral responses can't always be governed by cold financial logic. Besides, it's only $100,000 or so. A quick piss in the ocean in the context of the world's financial systems. You can win more vamping it up on Big Brother.

Mob mentality can be a dangerous thing.

both the disrespectful children and the foolishly generous do-gooders.

Whew.

All right, let me get into this:

- Have you ever bought a DVD? Ever paid for an MP3? Ever paid to see a movie? Ever paid to see a concert? Ever had a nice meal at a fancy restaurant? Ever bought cool shoes? Ever subscribed to a magazine? Wait, yes? You have? YOU SELFISH BASTARD. There are children starving in Somalia! Not to mention the Sudan! Not to mention Haiti! I can't believe you, Lecter. I'm honestly disappointed in you. You are not the man I thought you were. The decadence, the horror.

- I repeat: "People's feelings and visceral responses can't always be governed by cold financial logic." Maybe there are more -righteous and godly causes-. In fact, yes, there are, full stop. And maybe people are donating to her because it gives them a small boost as they stumble and fumble forth through their lives. And you know what? It's money they've earned. If they want to send a small portion this lady's way, it's their right, is it not? These people giving have control over their money and the art on their walls and the gold in their teeth. I know it's upsetting.

- Is there a Dr. Lecter approved charitable-giving hierarchy? So the children in Mogadishu go at the top, all right. Are rainforest conservation charities all right? Donations to local animal sanctuaries? Pro-same-sex-marriage lobbies? Homeless shelters? Preservation of classic films? A friend in need? There's so many ways our money can go. I'm sure we're all very concerned our choice lives up to your righteous standards.

However it does bother me that people decide to come out with actions like this one only after seeing a video of somethigt that happen s EVERY day and now are probably very proud of themselves.

I have a private message from the good Doctor awaiting me. The title line is an ellipsis. Foreboding.

It was a polite threat of a swift banning should I ever directly reference or allude to a certain part of 20th-century European history again.