Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: Homeless, Beatings, Video, YouTube | Themes: The Internet, Software, Networking
There are 86,000 videos available on YouTube depicting brutal beatings of homeless people.
Videos of homeless people, subject to brutal beatings and forced into humiliating acts, are apparently becoming more popular online according to a report released by the AFP. The videos are so horrible that US lawmakers are now taking action against the filmmakers, seeking harsher penalties for hate crimes against those poor and hungry souls living off the streets.
The National Coalition for the Homeless is disgusted over the videos, calling the homeless population "the new minority group." The NCH points to YouTube where 86,000 "degrading" videos of homeless people resided during July, 15,000 more than last year's count. 5,700 of those videos depict "burn fights" where homeless were convinced to battle each other for a pack of beers or a few bucks.
The AFP also reports that the homeless video trend originated in 2001, depicting fights among homeless people or urging them to jump into trash bins from large heights. These videos have found their way onto DVD, with more than 6.8 million sold over the last eight years.
"This is exploiting people when they are at their lowest point," said Andrew Davis, who used to live on the streets of Washington D.C. "Right now, the homeless have no voice. We need to prevent these things and the community has to be vigilant."
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not sure who films these kind of videos, but it sounds horrible enough to me not to
if google was able to make public the id of that skank case, it can now do it for something serious this time.
Sigh... I hate to admit it, but humanity in general is just plain retarded.
terrible. I hope some of the defective human beings making those videos land in jail.
This is just sick.
not only they're bunches of scum for beating people out of no good reason but even more ridiculous that they have the galls to put the video out in public like that....
while they're in jail they should be filmed and uploaded to youtube ...
I knew there are an awful lot of mentally deficient people commiting acts of stupidity out there. This is yet another example. It's just plain wrong.
If I caught someone doing this I would beat them worse then what their giving the homeless. Really why is this tech news anyway. Let's keep it hardware related toms.
These people should be sentenced to trade places with their victims for a year or so instead of jail time. I believe that would be the most fitting punishment...I can't imagine how it would be possible, but I wish there were a way to put it into practice.
wtf...
That's all I can say.
I fight my friends for packs of beer.
Just like friendly fights like no nut shots, punch to face etc
Anyways this is pretty cruel
i think it should be an eye for an eye....besides extreme jail time, they should also endure the same brutality and have it put on youtube. i live in florida and we have alot of homeless, nasty ones too...but even they dont deserve this, every one deserves human dignity. lest we forget in this economy becoming homeless is a realistic possibility for any of us
at least they created evidence for when they do get caught. idiots.
"Homeless sues Google Maps for invasion of Privacy - buys real house".
"If they hadn't posted my house, these punks wouldn't have found me." says the man.
I think its real easy to jump in and say "Hey this is horrible. But stop and think for a minute. Did someone pull up in a van drag these people away and drop them in a pit, later telling the " 2 Men enters, One Man Leaves" like some internet Tina Turner? No these guys did it on their on volition.
We have become a nation of Victims. Its never our fault anymore. Its always "I was raised wrong", "Im addicted", "Im poor", "Im a minority". When will people start taking responsibility for their own actions.
How about one of these bums comes forward and says, "Yea I did this for Beer, back when I was a teen I made horrible decisions and decided I liked drinking a lot, after years of heavy drinking and dodging responsibilities Ive become a full blown Alcoholic but I really dont wont to go through the long process of detoxing, and spending my days in AA meetings, so yea I fight for beer".
When will we here that story?
Never. And the minority without a voice wouldn't be getting PR and social security. I pay taxes, work, and go to school; where's my voice or my handout?
They really aren't forced to do this. If they want to fight for beer, let them. It's immoral to start a competition like this, but I don't really feel bad for the homeless who do it. It's their choice. If they are mentally ill, that's a different story. Then it's evil.
This disgusts me, I have to go youtube right now to see what scum are filming these videos.
As if the homeless haven't suffered enough they have to endure this crap.
this IS disgusting and those ppl r just evil who need to be punished.
but like some ppl said, these ppl weren't forced into doing anything like slaves.
would you feel different if they fought over food instead of beer?
what if they fought over food so they can give give it to their homeless kids?
Would u have them go hungry instead of selling their pride?
I don't agree at all to the punk kids who started it, but hard to say if we're not in their shoes.
We have become a nation of Victims. Its never our fault anymore. Its always "I was raised wrong", "Im addicted", "Im poor", "Im a minority".
While I completely agree, you have obviously never actually SPOKEN to a homeless person. A majority of them ARE mentally disabled or damaged from drugs.
Right argument, at entirely the wrong time.
This gave me the idea to film people who beat homeless people getting beaten themselves.
That's pretty messed up.
And I thought it was mainly a japanese problem...
Some of these kids should get sentenced as an adult.
"Homeless Beatings".
Regardless of whether they're homeless or not, a beating is a beating and all videos of people getting the sh*t kicked out of them illegally (violent sports happen to be a legal way of kicking someones ass) then the person committing the act should be tracked down and arrested. If they're so willing to put the evidence online, all the better. I'm sick of CCTV cameras everywhere anyway.
Amazed at the lack of common sense in modern day post-rational PC America. These are the people that would gladly rob and rape YOU given a chance. And you are supposed to feel sorry and compationate for them! Why? Because they are human beings too? Well, nazi death camps guards were human beings too, should I feel sorry for them?
Uh oh! It's Clockwork Orange society of the future now! CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP!
STOP and IGNORE watching this videos. The mere fact that people are watching and condemning. the video become more popular.
So please stop and ignore all posting of this kind of act.
Thank you and god bless us all
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I still believe in the goodness of people - jcombalicer
http://jcombalicer.blogspot.com
This material can only thrive because there is a public that adores such cruelty.
The human species is quite cruel, and especially cruel when situations and such scenarios as mentioned in the above article do not come "close to home".
Since we are talking about the homeless in this particular case, people tend to care less. However people seem to forget that any single one of us could potentially become homeless through the simple event of losing our jobs and not being able to find a new one.
Of course not all homeless people are homeless due to a personal tragedy or the loss of a job, some even choose to be homeless over being part of the corporate machine. But however small the population of homeless people who cannot help their descent into homelessness, we must not forget that all of them, regardless of where the cause of their homelessness lies are still people just like you and me.
Always keep an open mind, look around you and question everything.
You are in control of your actions and we are all in the same boat, rich or poor, black, white, believers and non-believers... we are all humans and on the same path of life.
Be blessed folks and take care of yourselves and one another.
My two cents,
Mike
STOP and IGNORE watching this videos. The mere fact that people are watching and condemning. the video become more popular.So please stop and ignore all posting of this kind of act.Thank you and god bless us all______________________________________I still believe in the goodness of people - jcombalicerhttp://jcombalicer.blogspot.com
Public discussion of public issues is a fundamental part of democracy. If people would ignore everything that's bad, the world would look even worse than it is now.
Alot of homeless people are mentally challenged... would you go into a "special" school to beat up the kids with _________ mental illness. It is pretty sad saying how i have a brother that is =( I hate people that pick on the disabled, its like beating up the special Olympics team...