Disturbing, but not surprising. We live in a society that rewards violent and irresponsible behaviors: reality TV, sports, corrupt politicians and lavish corporate executives. With these people for role models it's naive to expect anything else.

Thank God for prisons so that thugs like these can be locked up and off the streets.

Why this is shocking. How could this brutal behavior occur in our society. Yeah right !!! Get used to it, it's just around the corner. A result of exposure to every day violence, from a very young age, and a guiltless society where the criminals are treated like heroes and the victims questioned. Have you checked your TV Guide lately. We choose to ignore and address the cancers that are eating away at our country.

there is a video I saw promoted on late night TV called "Felony Fights". It shows people violently assulting others. Also with video games like "Grand Theft Auto" I am sure this is where these kids got the idea.
The makers of these games and videos like Felony Fights should be arrested and jailed.

This is not a freedom of speech issue...it is the worst kind of pornography.

Lock 'em up and throw away the key . . . then see if any other idiot tries to do the same thing.

What idiots!!! Hopefully in jail they will get the same treatment and beaten themselves!!!

While appalling this is just another manifestation of society's ills. In a country where young peoples values and morals are being corrupted by the media, government and the apathy on the part of many parents this is not surprising.

I am not a right wing conservative but family values, morality and just plain common sense have taken a beating so to speak. It time to reprioritize our lives so that we instill in our young people respect for their fellow man.

While I agree this is very disturbing, it is not society's fault. Our world today is far more tame than it was 50 or even 100 years ago. And when compared to our world 1,000 or more years ago, there's no comparison in terms of violence. Furthermore, if you want to stop idiotic behavior like this from teenagers you have to go after the real culprits - the parents. It's about time parents and our society start looking inward instead of pointing the finger at the "media" or "entertainment". Take responsibility for raising idiots and animals. But for many people that's more disturbing than these amateur fight videos.

They need jail for life. I hope no body died from this. they kids are crazy.

Pete has it. People wave and scream that it's the media, violent movies, violent videogames, etc... These are not the roots of the problem you are seeing. These kids were not taught what is right and wrong, the parents are absent and/or careless in regards to what their child does and fob off their responsibilities onto society and the schools. And by "right and wrong" I refer not to divisive arguments that no one will ever agree on such as gay rights or abortion, but catchall, common-sense values such as,"fistfights make you look like an idiot thug." I've watched violent movies, I play violent video games, I read books(lots) that have violence in them... and I've never thrown a punch in my life. It's because my parents instilled in me the values of respect, honor, intelligence, and love. And they surely instilled in me the difference between real-life and a pixellated video game.

Locking them up and throwing away the key is one option, but don't you think we should be addressing the root cause of the problem, and not attempting to close the gate after the horse has bolted?

This is very sad, but I agree with a lot of what is posted above. We can point that finger at any one group we want to, but the responsibility actually rests with us all, parents, media, schools, peers. Probably violence has become tamer as mentioned by one poster, but this kind of outlandish thuggery has roots in a lot of our present culture. We need to address this willingness to use violence, especially for profit, before we are personally involved. Fenced communities, stricter schools, more police are not the answers.

What if the teens just wanted to see what it felt like to inflict pain into someone remember the kid in western ney york that killed another for no reason that was on here a year or so ago. He had no reason to do it he didnt even know the child, he just wanted to see what it felt like.

Send these guys to jail for a LONG time. Maybe jail in Afganistan or Somalia

Notice we can watch the videos here too. What's that about? Let's just continue to perpetuate the problem and feed the violence culture! Making stars out of the culprits does nothing to help the situation whatsoever!!

Personally, I don't like it when people feed eachother the same information; that violent video games and movies are the cuase of violent acts such as this. It's the fact that parents (some) these days are completely negligent to what their kids are doing behind their backs. Being in highschool, I see people smoking just outside the school boundaries every day, and why aren't they punished by their parents? Because their parents don't care enough to make their kid listen.

It's not the media telling you to kill your neighbor, it's yourself; don't use a video game or a TV show as your scapegoat.

While I agree wholeheartedly that parents need to take much of the blame for their children's aberrant and violent behavior, I'd also suggest that society is making it increasingly difficult to be a good parent. In many instances society...the media...even the schools undermine our ability to be effective parents in spite of our best intentions. Today, parents that demand much of their children in terms of respect, responsibility, high principles and standards are portrayed as restrictive and wrong. Society encourages children and teens to take their cues about how to live life from everyone but their parents. And reaslistically, no matter how diligently you work to make yourself an active part of your child's life and even guard your child's exposure to the filth and degraded morals that are rampant in today's society, the message still comes through...you have your rights, nobody should tell you what to do, live your life however you want.
I hope these criminals pay deeply for these atrocities. But at the same time, I do believe that society holds a moral obligation, as well as the parents, to evaluate the consequences of the values they are reflecting to today's youth.

I can't imagine just being attacked out of the blue then seeing it being sold.I have not seen any of the videos and I don't care to watch them.What I would love to see is justice being served to these cruel,inhumane,greedy people.

Becoming dangerous to raise young children in America.

Concerned mother of three.

This is beyond appalling to me. How could anyone purchase this type of video for entertainment? Society as whole, we are lacking civility. This kind of behavior is seen only in lawless society which I am afraid the U.S has become. As a parent, I am not sure if I would let my child go to a MacDonald Restaurant by himself after reading this article. I am quite sure those thugs would be defended vigorously,if they were to be tried at court, by their public defense lawyers at the taxpayers' expense. Our justice system only works for the criminals. After all, too many known crooks and murderers went free. Let's not forget that! By the way, as Y.K.H stated, parents only can do so much. I am not pointing my finger at someone else, but listen to the message the youth are getting from so called the role models of today such as Paris Hilton, Brittney, etc, etc,. Then, again there are group of people who did not deserve to become parents.