Attacking and killing homeless people has become a sport in America, and apparently, it’s on the rise. This is an extremely disturbing trend.
“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.”
– Read more of “Teen sport killings of homeless on the rise” on CNN.com
My husband and I were discussing the seeming increase in absolutely brutal senseless crimes being committed now that we were not aware of before. Of course we always had our psychopaths, but now these horrific crimes are being perpetrated by children or adults who have lived “normal†lives and suddenly seem to go berserk. We are both happy that our lives were lived in a more civil time and that we are now at the tail end of this time on earth.
It’s been several years ago but a friend of mine was killed in much the same manner by a gang of boys who “thought he was homeless and thought no one would care.”
That was the excuse they gave in court for beating him to death with 2x4s.
Sadly too many of today’s youth seem to measure the value of a life based on the size of a man’s wallet.
Brenda: Thanks for your comment. And I echo your concern about the times in which we live.
Billy: I’m sorry to hear about your friend. My homeless friends all have stories about attacks, abuse, rape, etc. Several of my homeless friends have been killed by people who obviously didn’t value their lives at all. Every person has value. Every life counts. I wish that everyone understood this.