some real f***ed up kids

[DaCougarMech]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10834294/
Police hunt for suspects in homeless beatings

Assailants used bats or sticks in attacks on 3 men, one of whom later died

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Police say they will seek murder charges against the attackers who beat a homeless man to death and are suspected in two similar attacks a few hours later.
The first attack was caught on a university surveillance video before dawn Thursday, prompting a police search for two to four young men. The crime, though unusual for being captured on videotape, is remarkably common, advocates for the homeless say.
Norris Gaynor, 45, was attacked later as he slept near the Broward Center for Performing Arts and died from his injuries at a hospital Thursday, police said. The other victims, both hospitalized in serious condition, have not been identified.

The video from Florida Atlantic University shows two men chasing and beating a man who had been sleeping on a bench. “It looked like they were going for the head,” Detective Katherine Collins said.
The Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel reported that as the two teens ran off, headlights from a car or truck could be seen shining westward on the scene on Las Olas Boulevard. Authorities said Thursday they were looking for a white van with no markings.

The 58-year-old man found a security guard, who called for help, and the victim was hospitalized with head trauma and defensive fractures, authorities said.
Gaynor was beaten about 90 minutes later in a chillingly similar attack. He had been sleeping on a secluded park bench near the performing arts center, police said.

Another 90 minutes after that, a third homeless man flagged down a fire crew passing a church and said he had been attacked while he slept.
“It’s senseless. If you look at these kids, it was almost like it was fun and games for them,” police Officer Scott Russell said.
NBC reported that the Salvation Army was opening an emergency shelters for the homeless in Fort Lauderdale, something the group usually does only on extremely cold nights.
Four teenagers pleaded guilty last month to fatally beating a 53-year-old homeless man in Daytona Beach in May. They await sentencing next month. A fifth teen still faces an aggravated battery charge and is free on bail.
What made Friday's crime unusual, advocates for the homeless said, wasn't that it was committed, but that it was captured on videotape.
[B]'Tip of the iceberg'[/B]
The nonprofit National Coalition for the Homeless says that there were more than 398 acts of violence against homeless people in the last six years, of which about 156 resulted in death. These statistics do not include reports of sexual assault against homeless women.
"We think it's the tip of the iceberg," said Michael O'Neill, coordinator of the coalition's Homeless Speakers Series, designed to educate people on the causes of homelessness.
In a report on hate crimes against the homeless published in mid-2005, the organization said it believes many cases go unreported or unpublicized because many homeless people are mentally ill or addicts, fear retaliation or are frustrated with the police. As a result, the report says, it is difficult to assess the true magnitude of the problem.
O'Neill told MSNBC.com there was an escalation in violence against homeless people after two young men produced a series of movies, starting with "Bum Fights" in 2001 in which they filmed homeless people they had persuaded to do humiliating and dangerous things in exchange for drugs, small change or food. The video producers at first faced seven felony counts and four misdemeanor charges in connection with production of the videos, but ultimately were sentenced to 250 hours of community service.
"There's been a lot of copycat crimes," O'Neill said.
In an interview with the Sun-Sentinel, a Fort Lauderdale advocate for the homeless said beating homeless people is quite common in the area.
"It's one of the shameful secrets we have, the beating of homeless for sport," said Marti Forman, CEO of the Cooperative Feeding Program, told the newspaper. "It's a recreation thing, it's an initiation for gangs and fraternities."
She said she hoped the fact that the brutality was videotaped would generate outrage.
The Associated Press and NBC News contributed to this report.

unbelievable. it leaves me speech less and outraged whenever i see one of these reports

[Nubli]

Last year a few homeless men were doused in gasoline and set on fire. Gotta love skater punks, because that's all I ever see get into trouble around here.

[Mc_Blackzon]

:l ouch.... that just makes me really sad inside... I mean cmon there trying there best arn't they and some jackass kids come and beat them? ouch...

[Warslut]

Find em, Shoot em, end of story, we don't need them. [The kids, not the homeless people]

[nujabes]

yeah exactly nub. its always those damn punks who have nothing better to do. and theyre p*ssies and couldnt beat up anyone else

[[/sarcasm]]

This reminds me of this editorial I saw about "wildings," when a group of like 30 kids would go around and kill homeless people. Then they grabbed a jogger from Central Park near Harlem, raped her (like 7 out of 30 did it), bashed her face in with a brick, cut her legs and such, and left her to die.

She got lucky... Or, I guess, as lucky as you can get for that situation, because she didn't die. When the kids were caught, they said they were doing it because "there wasn't anything else to do. It was fun." They knew they would get off with just a ridiculously light sentence, so they were singing rap songs while in their jail cells.

If it were up to me, every single kid would be punished to the fullest extent of a law, as an adult. Or maybe just put to death, we don't need them in society anyways.

[d2 nub]

Thoes are some sad kids.

[DaCougarMech]

This reminds me of this editorial I saw about "wildings," when a group of like 30 kids would go around and kill homeless people. Then they grabbed a jogger from Central Park near Harlem, raped her (like 7 out of 30 did it), bashed her face in with a brick, cut her legs and such, and left her to die.

She got lucky... Or, I guess, as lucky as you can get for that situation, because she didn't die. When the kids were caught, they said they were doing it because "there wasn't anything else to do. It was fun." They knew they would get off with just a ridiculously light sentence, so they were singing rap songs while in their jail cells.

If it were up to me, every single kid would be punished to the fullest extent of a law, as an adult. Or maybe just put to death, we don't need them in society anyways.

it's people like that that make me just so angry at humanity sometimes. it just cannot make sense to me how anybody can do that type of shit and not have the most traumatizing moral dilemma about it. i believe that in certain cases like those we need to cut the crap and just execute those kids like the ****ing pieces of shit they are

[ZxSlippy191]

The Sad thing is the homeless people are more mature than most the kids.

[FrogMan]

put these kids out of there misery and... beat them to death

[fleaflickerx]

yea dude that sad why beat homiess people, but addicts are a different story, they chose to **** up their life, im not saying its right ot kil them its just they made some bad choices.

[Mathalamus]

kids beating homeless people??! this cannot be overlooked! if it were up to me i would put them in solitary for say 30 years minimum? not killing too harsh

**** they are stupid!

with brains of sawdust at best

EDIT: i hate kids who do that they are now enemies of me i will find and arrest them (i wish)

put the out of thier misery..i agree

im a teen i dont ****ing kill people exsept 1 teen wich i will beat up in school

[CrAcKHeaD SaMiO]

kids beating up bums woot big thrills. thats everyday shit people just dont show it on the news. they also dont show all the meth heads shooting each other down the street from me. or the guy that set his wife on fire. or the kid who jumped off the school building. theres just basic shit that happens in life. people just blow everything out of proportion. violence is violence. people kill thats human nature. thats always been human nature. pick on the weak until they snap and just shoot everyone that they can find.devilishmartass2

[[/sarcasm]]

kids beating up bums woot big thrills. thats everyday shit people just dont show it on the news. they also dont show all the meth heads shooting each other down the street from me. or the guy that set his wife on fire. or the kid who jumped off the school building. theres just basic shit that happens in life. people just blow everything out of proportion. violence is violence. people kill thats human nature. thats always been human nature. pick on the weak until they snap and just shoot everyone that they can find.devilishmartass2

Just because it's human nature doesn't make it right and acceptable.

[Fuggle]

This story sounds just like the story from last year.

kids beating up bums woot big thrills. thats everyday shit people just dont show it on the news. they also dont show all the meth heads shooting each other down the street from me. or the guy that set his wife on fire. or the kid who jumped off the school building. theres just basic shit that happens in life. people just blow everything out of proportion. violence is violence. people kill thats human nature. thats always been human nature. pick on the weak until they snap and just shoot everyone that they can find.devilishmartass2

Wow, you are a douchebag. Human Nature is to kill people like that? Do you have urges to just beat the shit out of somebody for no reason? If its human nature why is it illegal to kill?