What is the worst behavior you have ever witnessed or survived in scouts?
I'll go first:
-On my very first camping trip, I got held down and forcibly kissed by another, much older scout. It was witnessed by everyone in my patrol, but got laughed off because the other scout had some sort of mental disability. Nothing was ever done about it, and the other kid kept terrorizing other scouts with aggression and unwanted touching.
-My patrol leader (a future SPL) and his assistant PL took turns spitting at the back of my head while we were passengers in a van.
-One SPL went around punching or whipping people who had their hands in their pockets while standing around on a cold winter day.
-An older scout (mid teens) repeatedly asked me (12 years old at the time) to perform a s€X act on him. I don't know if he said those things as a joke so as to make me uncomfortable, or if he was actually serious. But as a 12 year-old I couldn't tell. I got extremely scared and told my parents. The other scout was moved to a different patrol, and he later dropped out.
-When I was an older scout, I sincerely tried to do the right thing and do a good job at Scouting. Regardless, I got repeatedly snapped at and yelled at by the scoutmaster for not being as good of an SPL or crew chief as his own son had been, despite the fact that we had faced entirely different challenges. The man had a volatile temper, and at other moments would lavish bizarrely excessive praise on me. As an adult I now recognize this as a classic manipulation and abuse tactic.
All of these things happened almost 30 years ago, but they still bother me to this day.