What a Lovely New Trend

[Silk]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/19/homeless.attacks/index.html

By Ashley Fantz
CNN
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MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (CNN) -- All Nathan Moore says he wanted to do was smoke pot and get drunk with his friends.

Killing Rex Baum was never part of the plan that day in 2004.

"It all started off as a game," Moore said.

The 15-year-old and his friends were taunting the homeless man -- throwing sticks and leaves -- after having a couple of beers with him.

No big deal, Moore says, but he's sorry for what came next.

It was a mistake, he said, a sudden primal surge that made him and his friends Luis Oyola, 16, and 17-year-old Andrew Ihrcke begin punching and kicking Baum.

"Luis says 'I'm gonna go hit him,' We're all laughing, thought he was joking around,'" but he wasn't, Moore concedes. "We just all started hitting him."

They hurled anything they could find -- rocks, bricks, even Baum's barbecue grill -- and pounded the 49-year-old with a pipe and with the baseball bat he kept at his campsite for protection.

Ihrcke smeared his own feces on Baum's face before cutting him with a knife "to see if he was alive," Moore said.

After destroying Baum's camp, the boys left the homeless man -- head wedged in his own grill -- under a piece of plastic where they hoped the "animals would eat" him.

Then, Moore says, they took off to grab a bite at McDonald's.

Baum's murder was indicative of a disturbing trend.

A National Coalition for the Homeless report says last year, there were 122 attacks and 20 murders against the homeless, the most attacks in nearly a decade. (Coalition report on 2006 homeless attacks)

Police found Baum's body two days after the teens attacked him.

They bragged about it around town. Police picked them up and they described what happened.

Ihrcke told police that killing "the bum" reminded him of playing a violent video game, a police report shows.

All three teens pleaded no contest to first degree reckless homicide charges and went to prison.

Moore recently turned 18 at Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Wisconsin, where he is serving a 15 year sentence.

"When [the beating] stops, you say, 'What did we just do?'" he told CNN. "There's no rational explanation." (Watch teen explain how "game" became tragedy )

[Callaway]

That makes me sick.  What can these boys possibly be thinking while they beat another person to death?  They had just shared beers with the man.

[Pyraxis]

That makes me sick.  What can these boys possibly be thinking while they beat another person to death?  They had just shared beers with the man.

A-fucking-men. Because he's homeless, that makes it okay?

[duncvis]

Doesn't surprise me. The only difference from here is that in the UK the little cunts would have been filming it on their phones for later.

[The_P]

How pathetic. In the UK, we have young people who beat various people up, then take pictures of their victims from their mobile phone cameras. This anomaly is referred to as "happy slapping". Ironic, eh?

[El]

Cross-thread reference:  + to dunc for appropriate use of the "c word, " for although I don't think there's a profantity in existence that would adequately describe those teens, that's about as close as I would be able to get.

[Silk]

How pathetic. In the UK, we have young people who beat various people up, then take pictures of their victims from their mobile phone cameras. This anomaly is referred to as "happy slapping". Ironic, eh?

We have that here too. I guess I should be happy that dumbasses are going out of their way to film their own crimes.

[Hypnotica_Gaze]

Indeed Tom aka Friar Tuck, Its twisted but atleast there is some potential good coming out of these recorded happy slapping attacks, these cretins are making evidence of their own crimes. There have been quite a few rapes and indecent assaults recently (2 very good cases in Glasgow which i followed in particular) where one of the perpetrators had got the footage on their camera, and thankfully that evidence was found and went along way in helping that case and getting the little pricks reprimanded.

Lets hope if people continue to commit these types of crimes that they stay stupid enough to compile evidence of it, that could be found later on to use to get them punished.

[Callaway]

Friar Tuck is not Tom, Hypnotica Gaze.

[Hypnotica_Gaze]

I thought Friar_Tuck was originally Badger_Tom. Hmmmm, didnt he use that username at one point or a similar name somewhere.

[Leto729]

HG is the orginal woman of Intensity² for sure in the end.

[Leto729]

That is for RobertN only.

[Callaway]

I thought Friar_Tuck was originally Badger_Tom. Hmmmm, didnt he use that username at one point or a similar name somewhere.

I am trying to remember the name Tom used before, but I can't.  Friar Tuck is an American woman, anyway.

See her little gender thingy above her avatar?

[Hypnotica_Gaze]

I thought Friar_Tuck was originally Badger_Tom. Hmmmm, didnt he use that username at one point or a similar name somewhere.

I am trying to remember the name Tom used before, but I can't.  Friar Tuck is an American woman, anyway.

See her little gender thingy above her avatar?

Yeah i did Callaway, but you never know with some people.
I cant recall the name Tom used before either, i will need to ask him on msn when i see him, i cant think why Friar Tuck reminded me of it.

[McGiver]

maybe he was robinhood