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Karen Klein: American School Bus

Max Sidirov Dept: A video showing Karen Klein, 68, being insulted on the bus ended up online and caught the eye of Max Sidirov of Toronto. He launched a fundraising drive on Indiegogo.com to pay for a holiday, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Klein must decide what she'll do with the money. "I want to save some, I want to invest in some things to make it grow, and donate to a couple of groups that I have in mind," she said from her home in Rochester, N.Y and gREECE, N.Y. -- An American school bus monitor who was verbally tormented by students is mulling over what to do with her embarrassment of riches. Sidirov, 25, set the initial fundraising target for $5,000, but donors kicked in $703,873 by the time his campaign wrapped up Friday night. "I still don't know how that happened," said Sidirov. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.