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Teen 'sport killings' of homeless on the rise
CNN.com ^ | 7:55 p.m. EST, February 20, 2007 | Ashley Fantz

Posted on 02/20/2007 8:11:37 PM PST by Hoosier-Daddy

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."

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To: Hoosier-Daddy

And now it's "sport rape" in prison. Bend over boys!


21 posted on 02/20/2007 8:50:08 PM PST by DTogo (I haven't left the GOP, the GOP left me.)
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To: Huntress

This murder sounds more vicious than the Matthew Shephard attack but it will never be made into a docudrama or held up as a sign of youth gone wrong.


22 posted on 02/20/2007 8:54:22 PM PST by weegee (No third term. Hillary Clinton's 2008 election run presents a Constitutional Crisis.)
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To: Hoosier-Daddy

In this post modern world, everything is a commodity. Commodities are to be consumed. Life is regarded as one cheap commodity. It would be ludicrous to blame abortion for this crime. But abortion is one of the many ways life is cheapened in this country, but nothing cheapens life more than the onslaught of images in media and video games. But again it would ludicrous to blame this crime on the media. But we do have a culture where life is cheap, and shame is hard to come by, a mixture which somewhat explains the crime but does not make it any less shocking to this onlooker.


23 posted on 02/20/2007 8:54:43 PM PST by Biblebelter
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To: Hoosier-Daddy

Sounds like these kids coulda used a spanking.....


24 posted on 02/20/2007 9:02:42 PM PST by fhlh (Liberal (noun): A person so open minded, their brains have fallen out of their head.)
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To: Hoosier-Daddy
Does anyone remember, "A Clockwork Orange"?
 
The scene was satire, like the rest of the film....
 
A drunkard demanding "law and order".

A vagrant cursing "men on the moon" as an outrage... due to his own situation.


Even the bum's cries are exaggerated to the absurd, along with the beating he receives.

Halfway through the film, a pacified Alex (while contemplating suicide) gives money to the very same bum. This empathy means nothing to the bum once he recognizes him.

The irony builds to a climax as the same remorseless toads who once clobbered the bum then appear to clobber Alex.

Still, people watch the whole movie in complete earnest, as if the scenes are remotely realistic.

Not that they "don't get" satire... people just want to be offended by it.

25 posted on 02/20/2007 9:15:52 PM PST by SteveMcKing
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To: PA-RIVER; mylife
And since the cause was Big Oil and Global Warming, it really means that this is all...

Bush's Fault!

26 posted on 02/20/2007 9:17:35 PM PST by COEXERJ145 (Bush Derangement Syndrome Has Reached Pandemic Levels on Free Republic.)
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To: Hoosier-Daddy

Life without parole. F'em. They forfeited any right to live.


27 posted on 02/20/2007 9:28:19 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Misery loves miserable company.......ask any liberal. Hunter in 08!)
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To: VeritatisSplendor
The overwhelming odds against the victim should be considered aggravating circumstances.

Very true. It is distressing to consider the overwhelming force used by these bullies, and the terror of their helpless victim.

28 posted on 02/20/2007 9:29:25 PM PST by BlackVeil
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To: Nomorjer Kinov

Hopefully neither.

Prison inmates can't vote.


29 posted on 02/20/2007 10:18:24 PM PST by Right2BareArms
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To: Hoosier-Daddy
All Nathan Moore says he wanted to do was smoke pot and get drunk with his friends.

All I can do is shake my head. The kid's main ambition (at 15!) is to drink and smoke pot. I suppose the murder was just something to break the monotony.

I wonder what his parents think about their son.

30 posted on 02/20/2007 10:25:05 PM PST by Logophile
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To: Logophile
Call it for what it is: BLACK inner-city animals --totally out of control!!!

We will see ever more of this depravity in the years ahead. Just look at professional basketball/football. Same types of totally irresponsibly profiles -- in action.
31 posted on 02/20/2007 10:49:00 PM PST by dk/coro
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To: Huntress

Goodness! I did not know that is how they killed him. Killing a person is bad enough, but smearing feces and cutting him up, and then leaving him for animals to eat. That is daemonic! That is unbelievable.


32 posted on 02/20/2007 10:58:22 PM PST by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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To: dk/coro
Call it for what it is: BLACK inner-city animals --totally out of control!!!

Wrong.
These kids are white. So is the victim. Video interview of killer in prison

33 posted on 02/21/2007 2:14:43 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: Huntress
What?!?! These punks deliberately kill a man, desecrate his body, hide the evidence of their crime, and then brag about it, and they get to plead to reckless homicide? The should be doing life sentences in the general population of a maximum security prison.

Our old DA was kinda lazy, he really didn't like to prosecute anyone.

34 posted on 02/21/2007 7:36:41 AM PST by cpprfld (Who said accountants are boring?)
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To: stephenjohnbanker
Life without parole. F'em. They forfeited any right to live.

Isn't there a disconnect there?

35 posted on 02/21/2007 12:23:42 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton

LOL! Yeah, there sure was. Any right to freedom would be more clear.


36 posted on 02/21/2007 12:31:10 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Misery loves miserable company.......ask any liberal. Hunter in 08!)
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To: dk/coro

Are you racist, and/or proud of it? While I admit there is a greater statistical likelihood of blacks being involved in homicide (per capita), for you to make the assumption that the killers are black says something about you.


37 posted on 02/21/2007 4:45:16 PM PST by amchugh
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To: mylife
I wonder if they killed him because they subconciously saw themselves becoming him?

You nailed it with this statement.

38 posted on 02/21/2007 4:47:47 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Good night Chesty, wherever you are!)
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To: Hoosier-Daddy

Supposedly one of the kid's stepmother spoke out on this link. (scroll down a little to a rare opportunity.)
http://www.penny-arcade.com/2007/02/21


39 posted on 02/21/2007 4:50:33 PM PST by amchugh
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To: dk/coro; Logophile
Call it for what it is: BLACK inner-city animals --totally out of control!!!

Nice theory ....problem is, the perps who did this (as well as the other crime that was basically identifical to this one) were white. Furthermore they were not from the inner-city.

Actually the only thing true in your post is that they were 'animals' and 'totally out of control.' The rest of it is not worth a jug of warm p!ss on a hot day.

40 posted on 02/21/2007 7:20:11 PM PST by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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