When I was in high school, I was hassled a lot by a bully, who enjoyed showing off to the (largely female) class by bullying me. He also had the nasty habit of

When I was in high school, I was hassled a lot by a bully, who enjoyed showing off to the (largely female) class by bullying me. He also had the nasty habit of grabbing and crushing the testicles of other boys when cornered. One particularly bad day, after school, I went home, got a baseball bat (and ball, in case I was stopped by cops). Took a sidekick, went back to school, and looked for the bully. He ran back onto school grounds (I wasn't going to risk a suspension by going into school with a weapon), but I made sure that a few people in class knew I was looking for him. When I went into school the next day I got a grovelling apology from him, and was never bullied again. I was surprised by how well it worked. Looking back more than a decade, I cannot believe how incredibly foolish I was, but it convinced me that bullies are most effectively stopped by the most primitive means.