[lonestar]

I have absolutely no sympathy for the boy killed or the ones injured should the provoking of these animals be proved.

Dito! I think they should have the book on animal abuse thrown at them.

They're idiots!

[Quix]

Yes, the boys were/are fools, idiots.

However,

They were TRAINED TO BE SO by their idiot . . . probably . . . fathers.

Please see my pontifications about

REACTIVE ATTACHMENT DISORDER

here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1937650/posts

Healthy, well bonded kids would not think of doing something so foolish and destructive.