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Bullying the kids who ride the “short bus” is about as low as you can get. Every schoolchild knows it. But apparently not 61-year-old Antonio Roman of Ocala, Florida. He staked out a bus stop just to pick on disabled students.

It all started with a family’s complaint that their neighbor was spraying their special needs kids with his lawn sprinklers. Corporal Kyle Ferguson of the Marion County Sheriff’s Office responded to the complaint. He may have been skeptical—lawn sprinklers set on timers do occasionally spray people by accident. But the family insisted the neighbor was targeting their kids. What’s more, they said he’d been doing so for nine months.

Ferguson started by staking out the house when the bus came by. Later, he met Antonio Roman to interview the man. What he found was shocking.

Florida man fesses up to sparring disabled kids at the school bus stop

Roman had installed security cameras and was sitting inside watching them, waiting for the school bus to arrive in the morning and afternoon. Then, as soon as his neighbor’s children were within range, he would manually activate the sprinklers he’d pointed at the bus stop. Once he’d doused the kids, he turned the sprinklers off immediately.

Why didn’t the bus driver just drop the kids out of range of Roman’s sprinklers? One of them is wheelchair-bound, so the only option was the official bus stop with the wheelchair ramp—right in front of Roman’s house.

Roman told the detective he was angry the city had placed the stop for the special needs bus directly in front of his house. He felt the wheelchair ramp used part of his driveway. His response? Take his frustration out on a couple of children.

If this story makes you angry, you aren’t the only one. Sheriff’s deputies arrived at Roman’s house and arrested him. The police report doesn’t say whether he flipped on his sprinklers to spray the officers—who could actually fight back. Police charged him with four counts of misdemeanor stalking, two counts of misdemeanor battery, and two counts of battery on a disabled person, which is a felony.

You can tell a lot about a man by the size of his enemies. Now we all know Roman is a grown man obsessing over what can only be described as a petty squirt gun fight.

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