Stupid kids. They oughta just get a car and run over the homeless.
Nobody would care then.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10927536/

Homeless beatings? 'We see it all the time'

Updated: 2:26 p.m. ET Jan. 19, 2006
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A string of beatings of three homeless men in
Fort Lauderdale in a single night last week has cast a spotlight on a
brand of crime activists say has practically become sport among young
people around the country.

Police say the attacks were carried out by a group of teenagers who
piled into a car with baseball bats, a golf club and a paintball gun
and went looking for homeless people to beat up.

"I wish I could say this was shocking and appalling, but it's not. We
see it all the time," said Laura Hansen, executive director of the
Broward Coalition for the Homeless. She said she sees the bruises,
black eyes and broken teeth suffered by homeless victims on a daily
basis.

From Florida to Alaska, dozens of homeless people are attacked each
year, most often by white men under 20, according to the
Washington-based National Coalition for the Homeless. Baseball bats
are a favored weapon, as well as rocks, bricks, fists and feet, pellet
guns and knives.

Three teenagers are charged with murder in the Jan. 12 beating death
of 45-year-old Norris Gaynor, whose head and chest were bashed with a
baseball bat while he slept on a park bench. He was also shot several
times with yellow paintball slugs.

One the same night, another man was assaulted with a golf club outside
a nearby church. A third was bludgeoned with a bat outside a college
building - an attack that was captured on surveillance video, which
helped lead to the arrests. Both men were seriously injured.

"This will shine a very bright light on an issue that has been
camouflaged and buried for a long time," said Marti Forman, chief
executive of the Cooperative Feeding Program in Broward County.
"People put blinders on until it's right under their nose."

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