Fund for grandmother bullied on bus reaches $650,000

<p>&#160;<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donations to a fundraising website for a grandmother bullied by middle-school students on a bus reached $650,000 on Monday afternoon, a record for the website, after a video of the abuse topped 7 million views on</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">&#160;</span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1340658064_2" style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">YouTube</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 11px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; "><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1340658064_0">Karen Klein</span>, a 68-year-old bus monitor from Greece, New York, was bullied until she cried by&#160;<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1340658064_3">Greece Middle School students</span>&#160;in a video uploaded on YouTube on Wednesday.<a href="http://www.buybagonlines.net/">coach outlet online</a></p>
<p style="margin: 11px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; "><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1340658064_1">Brian Klein</span>, Karen's son, said the support the family has received has been overwhelming, and that the family was grateful for it.</p>
<p style="margin: 11px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">The fund on indiegogo.com, originally intended to send Klein on a vacation, will take donations until July 20, after which she will get the money minus deductions by the company.</p>
<p style="margin: 11px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">A representative from indiegogo.com said Klein's fundraiser is the fastest- and largest-grossing fundraiser in the website's history. Previously, the website's largest fund raised around $320,000.</p>
<p style="margin: 11px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">Klein will receive 93 percent of the money donated to her. Four percent will go to indiegogo, and 3 percent will go toward credit card processing fees.</p>
<p style="margin: 11px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">Aside from the money, Southwest Airlines has given Klein a three-night trip to Disneyland in California for her and her eight grandchildren.</p>
<p style="margin: 11px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; ">She also has been given a free week-long vacation by the Hilton Sandestin Beach Golf Resort in Florida.</p>