Teen "Sport Killing"

I can't understand how one human being can do something like this to another human.

"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."

Forty-nine-year-old Rex Baum, seen in 2003, was an alcoholic and homeless but worked at a gas station and did odd jobs around Milwaukee.

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.

Let the blame game begin. It was the parents' fault for not paying enough attention to their kids, violent video games desensitized the teens to real world violence, they were underprivileged, undereducated, overly protected.

"It's disturbing to know that young people would literally kick someone when they're already down on their luck," said Michael Stoops, the executive director of the Washington-based National Coalition for the Homeless. "We recognize that this isn't every teenager, but for some this passes as amusement."

It's common to label people who kill others as animals, but "other than humans" might be a more appropriate term, since calling these wretched life forms animals is unfair to the animal world.

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