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Cry-Baby of the Week

This week: A bullied teen stabbed a girl in the face because she called him "Harry Potter," and Drake got mad because he was kicked off a magazine cover in favor of a Philip Seymour Hoffman tribute.

It's time, once again, to marvel at some idiots who don't know how to handle the world:

Cry-Baby #1: Ryan Walker

via the Daily Mail

The incident: Two girls bullied a teenager by calling him "Harry Potter."

The appropriate response: Depending on how long the bullying had been occurring—insulting them back or reporting them to the authorities.

The actual response: He attacked the two girls, stabbing one in the face so hard that he broke his knife.

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Nineteen-year-old Ryan Walker (pictured above) was walking back to his apartment in Southampton, England.

To get to his front door, he had to pass 15-year-old Emma Keeble and 16-year-old Leah Pearce, who were sitting outside.

As he walked past them, one of the girls, who had apparently been picking on Ryan for a while, called him "Harry Potter."

Furious, Ryan went into his apartment and retrieved a bottle of water which he threw over the girls.

He then went back inside, grabbed a vegetable knife, and walked across the street to a local park in the hope that the two girls would follow. They did.

Once in the park, Ryan turned to Leah and stabbed her in the face.

He then turned on the other girl, smashing her head into a fence, punching and kicking her while shouting, "Die! Die!"

He stabbed Leah with such force that the blade of the knife broke off in her face. Ryan was arrested shortly after. He immediately confessed to police and called his actions "monstrous."

He was charged with wounding with intent, attempted wounding, and possessing a bladed article. All of which he pled guilty to.

Ryan's lawyer, Keely Harvey, told the court that Ryan had been bullied at school. "He finally lost it. He flipped and attacked them in the most horrific way. Not justifiable, but I hope they can now see where it came from," she said.

While, obviously, Ryan has my sympathy for having to endure bullying, there is perhaps some kind of middle ground he could've found between "ignoring them" and "stabbing them in the face." He created a situation in which nobody is in the right and nobody wins.

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Judge Peter Ralls, who sentenced Ryan, said that the girls' behavior was no justification for Ryan's attack. "It was deliberate and planned," he said. "It was a sustained attack in which you used [a] knife as a weapon."

He was sentenced to four and a half years in jail.

Cry-Baby #2: Drake

via the Daily Mail

The incident: Drake was replaced with Philip Seymour Hoffman on the cover of the new issue of Rolling Stone.

The appropriate response: Nothing.

The actual response: Drake tweeted saying that he was "disgusted."

As you already know, Philip Seymour Hoffman died of a suspected heroin overdose earlier this month.

Off the back of this, Rolling Stone decided to drop Drake from the cover of today's issue and replace him with PSH.

When Drake learned about this (apparently after being contacted by someone from Rolling Stone) he tweeted,"I never commented on Yeezus for my interview portion of Rolling Stone. They also took my cover from me last minute and ran the issue."

The first portion of the tweet refers to a section of the Rolling Stone article in which they quote Drake as saying, "There were some real questionable bars on there. Like that 'Swaghili' line? Come on, man. Fabulous wouldn't say some shit like that." Drake reportedly made the statement off the record.

Despite not giving Philip Seymour Hoffman any of the respect that he's due, Drake followed with another tweet saying, "I'm disgusted with that. RIP to Philip Seymour Hoffman. All respect due. But the press is evil."

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Finally, Drake declared that he will no longer be doing interviews with magazines, as it's the only way his "message gets across accurately."

Drake has since deleted the first two tweets.

Which of these guys is the bigger cry-baby? Let us know in this poll right here:

Who is the bigger cry-baby?

Previously: Some people who arrested a kid for Snapchatting a drawing of a dick vs. a guy who allegedly burned down his apartment because his landlord asked him to stop masturbating with the door open

Winner: The Snapchat guys!

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