Re: so..
@sabroni
No mate, by any stretch of the imagination, this is definitely not bullying. It's a one off prank with a bit of tease thrown in.
Have you never teased anybody in your life?
Bullying, yet another word co-opted by the "offended on someone else's behalf" brigade for a different meaning, is repeated picking on someone. In other words harassment.
So, that fact that you didn't like the way the correspondent behaved justifies you in criticizing him does it.