Apparently, there is a group here on FR that have so little of a life, that they think ADULTS staying out after midnight...on NEW YEARS EVE have something unusual wrong with them. Just because they go to bed at 9 and get up at 4 every morning for no reason whatsoever doesn't mean we all have to.
When I took Psych 101 back in 1974, we learned that people like to find ways to blame the victim. I didn't want to believe that about my fellow human beings, but this topic and many of its responses would have been more than enough to convince me of it, even if I had not figured it all out for myself years ago.
This was random street violence, and it could just as easily have happened to any of us.