Posted on 02/20/2007 12:11:56 PM PST by DogBarkTree
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.
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That's a bit sick, isn't it.
Society would be way better off if these teenagers were killed before they come back to kill more people.
Read the entire story. It's bizarre:
Ihrcke smeared his own feces on Baum's face before cutting him with a knife "to see if he was alive," Moore said.
Kids can't tell right from wrong, maybe when they are five. These "kids" deserve to hang.
I'll also point out that bums can say and do some pretty dark stuff that can set people off.
I remember once in highschool waiting to meet a friend of mine outside a fastfood restaurant 2 doors down from a liquor store.
A bum asked me if I was looking for someone with ID to buy me a beer.
I said no.
He then started telling me how he doesn't do that kind of thing.
I said great, good for you.
Then he said he would get beer for me if I would let him perform a certain act on me.
At that point I went into the fastfood place and stood near the counter until he went away.
However, if I had had a baseball bat in my hand when he said what he said, things might have turned out differently.
In the murder case in this article it looks pretty bad for the killers. What they did sounds really horrible.
But bums are not saints.
The parents are to blame as well for raising a child that would beat and kick a defenseless human being.
Prime example: Josh Heytvelt.
Go Zags!
The democrat volunteers give the homeless smokes to vote in Milwaukee. Here I thought that was the place to be for winos.
Ouch! LOL!
This is disgusting; the [house]less deserve as much respect (in and of their being humans) as every other human creature.
This is absolutely senseless and shocking. These kids graduate from torturing animals to shooting homeless folks with paint ball guns to now "violent video game" murders.
These punks should be forced to live homeless and in rags through a Milwaukee winter and then beaten to death by three homeless men (chosen at random) with bats and golf clubs.
Set a few hard punishments for this type of criminal activity and it WILL cease.
Every generation we are invaded by savages in the guise of young males, and it is the adults job to civilize them. As of late we seem to have more adults that don't want to bother.
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/cover/2006/cover0224.html
"...Being homeless threatens not only your property but your person, too. There is a certain cadre—mostly young males—who simply cannot abide leaving unmolested those who seem vulnerable. If the little cherubs in Burke had been a bit older, they might have chosen to tip the 6-by-9-foot trailer over onto its door, with me trapped inside. Then they might’ve decided to see what would happen if they were to douse the trailer with gasoline and ignite it. And these would be well-loved kids from good families..."
This is like "Lord of the Flies". Young people without guidance will end up doing things like this. The Homeless have few friends and protectors. Most will hold the view that
they are to blame for their predicament, particularly male drunks and druggies. They are a predictable target.
A sad state of affairs that always seem to have tragic endings.
Carolyn
******************************************************** Laura Simpson didn't. Her son, Justin Brumfield, is serving an 11-year prison stretch in California.
In August 2005, Brumfield and William Orantes, both 19, beat 56-year-old Ernest Adams with bats. Adams emerged from a coma three weeks later with dents in his skull, permanent scars and no vision in one eye, the Los Angeles Times reported. Orantes is serving a three-year sentence.
Simpson, a sixth-grade teacher, says she is still tormented by her son's actions and wonders if her son's irritability was more than typical teenage moodiness.
She has other questions: Was her son, a natural follower, just succumbing to peer pressure? Was he that into "Bumfights"? Did he see the fear in Adams' eyes when he raised the bat to strike him?
In a sad irony, she had adopted him; his mother was a homeless drug addict, a revelation he had learned not long before the beating and which his attorney used to explain his rage.
As I've always believed - Nature trumps Nurture. This kid had "bad" blood. Bad blood will tell.
You can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear.
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